Meiji
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The 1888 rice store at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui: a plastered two-storey storehouse joined by a low shed with a raised ridge vent, on the old road corner.
The 1889 brewing range at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, holding the old rice mill, rice-steaming room and a mashing hall with tanks below and a koji room above.
A 1908 two-storey brewing storehouse at Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, clad in clapboard to the eaves and held up inside by one freestanding post over its tanks.
The 1889 shop and residence of Yasumoto Sake Brewery in Fukui, facing the old road to Ichijodani, with a shop in front and ten-mat formal rooms with kumiko transoms.
The Yuasa Family Residence Main House in Takahama, Fukui, is an 1892 townhouse registered in 2025, with plastered eaves, wing walls and fittings for clay fire doors.
The Yuasa Family Residence Treasure Storehouse in Takahama, Fukui, is an 1881 storehouse moved in 1933, with a kuramae, a raised entrance roof and sloping beams.
Yoganji Temple Priests' Quarters in Echizen City is a gabled kitchen and residence by the main hall, its east gable framed by great arched beams in white plaster.
Yoganji Temple Goten Hall in Echizen City holds a raised dais where the head of Hongwanji sat, facing a sunken garden arranged to be seen whole from the rooms.
Yoganji Temple Bell Tower in Echizen City is an 1890 Zen-style belfry on a 2.1-metre stone base, with carved lions and dragons and fan rafters rising at the corners.
Yoganji Temple Audience Hall in Echizen City lines up three tatami rooms toward a great alcove, a wing built to receive the head of Nishi Hongwanji in Fukui.
Yoganji Temple Storehouse in Echizen City is a two-storey storehouse of about 1897 in white plaster and battened boards, closing the northwest corner of the temple.
Yoganji Temple Main Hall in Echizen City is a hipped-roof Shin Buddhist hall rebuilt after the 1852 fire and completed in 1902, with a widened nave and gilded altar.
The Nanafushigido Main House at the Rennyo Shonin memorial museum in Awara, Fukui, is a large 1881 farmhouse of the Etchu azumadachi type, moved here in 1979.
A Meiji-era restaurant wing in Sabae, Fukui, moved in the early Showa years, with an upstairs banquet hall, red walls, fan-shaped windows and Shakudani stone paving.
The guest house of the former Fukuoka Prefectural Public Hall, a Western-style timber building of 1910 finished to look like stone, is a rare Meiji public building.
The Ishizaka Tunnel of 1895 in Fukuoka, a curved brick tunnel cut by the Hoshu Railway, is the oldest railway tunnel in Kyushu and still carries trains.
Built in 1907 beside the old Nakatsu Kaido in Buzen, Fukuoka, this merchant house carries plaster quoins upstairs and a shop below. Registered in 2021.
A 4.8-metre tiled wall of the late Meiji period in Buzen, Fukuoka, with posts at one-ken bays, open transoms and a plank gate. Registered nationally in 2021.
The Kabashima Family Residence Koin in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a late Meiji barn under a hipped-gable roof with deep eaves, framing the forecourt of the estate.
The Kabashima Family Residence Main House in Itoshima, Fukuoka, is a landowner's house of about 1897 with octagonal lattice windows and fine shoin rooms inside.