Meiji
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Former Kobe Foreign Settlement No. 15, a brick-and-timber trading house of about 1881, is the only one left in the old settlement and was rebuilt after 1995.
The Kobayashi Family House in Kitano, Kobe, built around 1903 for the American consul Hunter Sharp, is a colonial-style house open to visitors today as Moegi House.
Completed in 1900 and still in use, Kobe's Gohonmatsu Dam was Japan's first gravity concrete water-supply dam, the core of nine Meiji structures listed in 2006.
The Hunter Residence in Kobe, a Victorian-style timber house of 1907 built for the English entrepreneur Edward Hunter, closed at the end of 2025 for seismic work.
A 1911 weaving shed in Kato, Hyogo, built for power looms: its 15 by 29 meter plan follows the loom spacing, under six monopitch roofs with clerestory windows.
The Akagi Family Residence Stone Wall in Toyooka, Hyogo, runs 202 metres around the estate, up to 1.7 m high, in random-bond basalt and coursed stone.
The Akagi Family Residence Front Gate in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji gate on heavy posts, with studded doors and a wicket, set on 5 stone steps above the road.
The Akagi Family Residence Main House in Toyooka, Hyogo, built in 1870, is a 278 m² farmhouse with living rooms below, guest rooms above and a silkworm room on top.
The Akagi Family Residence Middle Gate and Wall in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji gate with 6.3 m of tiled wall dividing the forecourt and inner garden.
The Akagi Family Residence West Rice Storehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji earthen rice store of 49 m², board-lined, its south wall shared with a neighbour.
The Akagi Family Residence West Warehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber store of 29 m² that borrows the rice store's wall and is roofed on trusses.
The Akagi Family Residence West Storehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a long Meiji two-storey store of 148 m² under a floating roof, divided inside into 4 compartments.
The Akagi Family Residence West Miso Storehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber miso store of 39 m² set between two earthen stores, with 2 rooms.
The Akagi Family Residence West Storage Shed in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber shed of 18 m² by the west gate, blank outside and windowed to the house.
The Akagi Family Residence West Gate in Toyooka, Hyogo, is the late-Meiji back gate of the estate, set low between a warehouse and a shed, with board wings.
Hokuryokan, the Akagi Family Residence Annex in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji shoin-style guest wing with two 8-mat rooms, a tatami veranda and deep eaves.
The Akagi Family Residence Guardhouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a 6.0 m² mid-Meiji hut by the front gate, the estate's only hipped-roof building, windowed to the road.
The Akagi Family Residence East Workshop in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji two-storey farm building of 174 m² with an earth-floored work area, a byre and a loft.
The Akagi Family Residence East Unhulled Rice Storehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji 16 m² earthen store for tax rice, with a floating roof and plaster walls.
The Akagi Family Residence Wall One in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji tiled timber wall, 68 m long, with charred cedar below and openwork or plaster above.