Meiji

The Former Togu Palace in Tokyo, a Neo-Baroque palace of 1909 by Katayama Tokuma, is a National Treasure and now the State Guest House, open to visitors on set days.

A 1911 two-span stone arch bridge in Tokyo, the zero point of Japan's national roads, an Important Cultural Property since 1999, with bronze kirin and lions.

Standing to the left of the Tokyo National Museum's Main Building, the Hyokeikan is a Neo-Baroque Important Cultural Property completed in 1908. Designed under Katayama Tokuma and funded entirely by public donations to celebrate Emperor Taisho's wedding, it was Japan's first full-scale art museum. Verdigris domes, a-un lion statues, and a sixteen-pointed star mosaic floor of French marble showcase the finest Meiji-era Western architecture.

The iron gate of Myohoji in Suginami, Tokyo, cast in 1878 by the Ministry of Public Works, blends Japanese and Western design with a phoenix and acanthus doors.

The Imbrie House at Meiji Gakuin in Tokyo, a missionary home of about 1889 where William Imbrie lived from 1897 to 1922, mixes post-and-beam and balloon framing.

Built at Glasgow in 1874, the Meiji Maru is the only iron ship left in Japan and the first vessel listed as an Important Cultural Property. Entry is free.

A mid-Meiji silkworm rearing house in Chofu, Tokyo, ringed by glazed doors over clapboard. Converted after the war, it keeps its first roof frame. Registered 2014.

A mid-Meiji grain storehouse in Chofu, Tokyo, facing the main house across the yard, with washed mortar walls and the family house name on a gable. Registered 2014.

A mid-Meiji garden gate and board fence in Chofu, Tokyo, dividing front yard from main garden. The gate is 1.5 m wide and the wall 8.5 m long. Registered 2014.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Zatsugura in Fussa, Tokyo: a c.1898 former rice store on the street with a floating tiled roof, its upper floor a free brewing history museum.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Shingura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1898 two-storey earthen storehouse 35 meters long on the street, with a floating metal roof, now used to age sake.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Hongura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1880 two-storey earthen brewing hall, 32 by 23 meters, gabled at one end and hipped at the other, still brewing.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Mukaigura in Fussa, Tokyo: an earthen storehouse built as a coal shed in 1896, with torii-shaped window frames, now housing a beer brewery.

A small dozo tool store beside the Isego rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Mortar render scored into stone-like joints gives it weight.

An early Meiji rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Low dashigeta eaves and lattice windows survive, and the family still sells rice here.

A 1.5-metre kitchen gate of about 1907 with sliding board doors, a lamp hung between lintel and ridge beam, and moulded brackets facing a Ueno back lane.

A two-metre bracket gate of about 1907, gabled and tiled, with a lattice window above the opening, chamfered timbers, and a black-plastered wing wall in Ueno.

This 25-square-metre kura of about 1907 looks like stone but is brick over a timber frame, rendered and scored with false joints. Its ground floor held the altar.

Built in 1907 as a Nihonbashi cloth wholesaler's retirement house, this timber home in Ueno Sakuragi appeared in a Meiji plan book and was registered in 2005.

A 1909 wooden library designed by Ministry of Education architect Kuru Masamichi for Gakushuin's Mejiro campus. Registered in 2009, the L-shaped building is rare for its American Stick Style cladding and brackets carved with the school's sakura crest.