Meiji

Completed in 1892, this storehouse of tatami rooms outlived the fire that took the rest. It is now the oldest building at the Aizuwakamatsu brewery and holds a cafe.

Built in 1907 at the northwest corner of the Aizuwakamatsu brewery yard, this storehouse kept rice below and household goods above, beside its twin of the same year.

Built to carry off the steam of the rice boilers, this brick chimney rises 10 metres from a base 1.8 metres square, banded in steel and laid in English bond.

Seventeen metres of stretcher-bond brick, banded with granite at base and coping, mark where this Aizuwakamatsu brewery meets the street at its northeast corner.

An early Meiji yakuimon gate of zelkova on the old Oshu Kaido in Fukushima City: 2.3 m wide, chamfered posts, panelled doors and side walls. Registered in 2013.

The 1899 main house of the Shimanuki head family in Fukushima City, its highway gable clad in clapboard and window hoods, six rooms on each floor. Registered 2013.

An early Meiji clay storehouse beside the front gate of the Shimanuki estate in Fukushima City: white plaster, namako tile base and a black fireproof shutter.

A mid-Meiji garden wall and side gate on the Shimanuki estate in Fukushima City, its street face in clapboard and plaster to match the main house. Registered 2013.

A mid-Meiji single-storey soy sauce storehouse on a Fukushima estate, 9.1 m by 5.3 m, with walls left at the middle plaster coat and chestnut posts in rough clay.

A mid-Meiji storehouse moved in the early Showa era to the west edge of a Fukushima estate, with a cut-stone base, a namako-kabe skirt and a trowelled family crest.

A small late Meiji storehouse for papers on a Fukushima estate, 6.4 m by 3.6 m, with a namako-kabe tiled skirt, a black plaster band and a sheltered west door.

The Taketo Main House behind an Aizuwakamatsu bamboo merchant's shop is an early Meiji home with bark-edged posts and a bamboo lintel, now a café and small museum.

The new building of Nakamuraya Ryokan in Iizaka, Fukushima, a storehouse-style inn of about 1896, has three floors of equal size, its upper two tall and open.

The Wakamatsu Sakaemachi Church in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, a timber Gothic church of 1911 on a Latin-cross plan, has a spired tower and a Vories model.

Built about 1874 on a corner of the old Oshu Kaido in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, this small earthen storehouse still keeps the lift-up shutters of a working sake shop.

Built between 1898 and 1912 in Aizuwakamatsu's former samurai quarter, this hipped-roof house hides a Japanese-Western reception room behind its gabled porch.

Raised in 1875, seven years after the siege of Tsuruga Castle, this earthen-walled storehouse holds paired reception rooms and ranks among Aizu's oldest.

Standing at the street corner of a private compound in Aizuwakamatsu, this 1900 storehouse turns a blank plaster wall to the road, its roof framed the old way.

Built in 1886 as a goods store, this Aizuwakamatsu storehouse was later enclosed by the house built around it. Only its gable ends now face the corridors within.

Built in 1886, this Aizuwakamatsu storehouse holds a formal room with alcove, shelves and a study bay behind its thick walls, all in lacquered timber.