Meiji

The Former Kai Family Residence Miso and Koji Storehouse is a late Meiji earthen brewery in Kitakata, pairing a 2-story miso store with a vented koji room.

An early Meiji gate 2.6 m wide on a lane in Iizaka Onsen, braced by rear posts and two tiers of tie beams, with carved pendants on both gables; registered 2020.

Rebuilt in 1881 after a fire, this Iizaka Onsen house has a rare natural slate roof, a formal gabled porch and an arched ceiling; registered in 2020 and open free.

A kimono storehouse built after the 1880 fire at the Horikiri estate in Iizaka Onsen, with cloud-shaped brackets and a drawered zelkova staircase; ground floor open.

Largest of three Meiji-era storehouses at the Horikiri estate in Iizaka Onsen, built for utensils and bedding, with floor vents; family portraits on show.

An early Meiji storehouse in Iizaka Onsen with a tokonoma parlor and a fireproof safe at its center; a ledger and a copy of the Eikitei name board are shown inside.

The Former Yoshida Family Residence Main Building in Miharu, Fukushima, is an 1895 silk merchant's sukiya house of rare woods, registered in 2020, open free.

Shiunkaku at the Former Yoshida Family Residence in Miharu, Fukushima, is an 1895 storehouse sitting room with dragon carvings and red lacquer, reopened 2023.

Built in 1908 next to a cocoon dealer's storehouse at Koori, Fukushima, this low tiled house holds four rooms, a tokonoma alcove and a projecting bath wing.

A 1908 earthen-walled shop storehouse on the old Oshu Kaido in Koori, Fukushima. Built by a cocoon dealer, it keeps its suriage-do shutters and a cocoon loft above.

At the end of a Fukushima hot spring village stands a thatched inn of 1871, still trading, its hearth room open to blackened beams, the source said to rise below.

A tiny household guardian shrine at the Sasa Masamune sake brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1886, it was one of two buildings spared by the June 2026 fire.

The shop-residence at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A timber house of the early Meiji era, it held the family's shop and home. Burned in June 2026.

Built in 1873 in Fukushima City, this thatched farmhouse turns a stepped kabuto gable to the east and a hipped irimoya to the west. Registered nationally in 2013.

Raised in 1875 in Fukushima City, this two-storey earthen storehouse guarded the household's deeds and ledgers behind thick clay walls under white lime plaster.

This late Meiji kurazashiki at Motomiya packs into 43 square metres the painted panels and choice timbers of the main villa beside it. Listed in 1996.

Built as a landowning family's villa in the late Meiji years, this house combines two kinds of gable, a finely carved porch and painted panels within.

This 1907 brewing storehouse stands on the back street of the Aizuwakamatsu brewery, its lower wall exposed brick and its roof carried on Western-style trusses.

Built in 1909 on a castle-town street in Aizuwakamatsu, this brewery house joins a three-storey dwelling to a two-storey office. Hideyo Noguchi saw its 36-mat hall.

Two granite posts 3.3 metres high carry a lamp-bearing steel arch between the house and the storehouse of this Aizuwakamatsu brewery, with brick walls to each side.