Meiji

A 2-storey Meiji gatehouse at a Takeda sake brewery, rising between two storehouses, with a gateway below and rooms above where the brewers lodged. Registered 2015.

Twin Meiji rice stores at a Takeda sake brewery, one for brown and one for polished rice, with namako tiles to the street and washed stone inside. Registered 2015.

A Meiji earthen storehouse at a Takeda brewery where pressed sake was aged, 21 m long, framed with a king post truss unlike the press house next door. Listed 2015.

A late Meiji sake merchant's house on Takeda's main street, with timber lattices, a plastered upper floor, a clerestory and firewalls. Registered 2015; now a hotel.

A 25 m Meiji earthen workhouse at a Takeda sake brewery that once held a koji room and the sake press, its long white wall facing the castle hill. Registered 2015.

A small Meiji gate and 9.7 m street wall at a Takeda sake brewery, finished to match the house's reception room, with a lattice transom. Registered 2015.

Former Tamaoki Family Residence North Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse with round windows on a flood-proof stone base by the Minogawa; registered 2002.

Former Tamaoki Family Residence West Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a Meiji storehouse on the plot next door, with a trapezoid anteroom; registered in 2002.

Former Tamaoki Family Residence Annex, Miki, Hyogo: a two-storey Meiji guest wing with an alcove room and verandas facing two gardens; registered in 2002.

Former Tamaoki Family Residence East Storehouse, Miki, Hyogo: a tiny Meiji tool store called the six-mat storehouse, with namako tile walls; registered in 2002.

Former Tamaoki Family Residence Corridor, Miki, Hyogo: a 10-meter Meiji walkway with a copper roof, open to the courtyard, with bath and toilet; registered 2002.

The Western-style house of the former Muto family villa at Maiko, Kobe, built in 1906, has a round balcony facing the sea and a complex roof of natural slate.

Built in 1888 for the Nanakamaya merchants of Hamasaka, this timber townhouse keeps nine tatami rooms behind a lattice front and now opens daily as a town museum.

The former Wadamisaki Lighthouse, rebuilt in iron in 1884 and now in Suma Beach Park, Kobe, is Japan's oldest iron lighthouse, called the Red Lighthouse of Suma.

A mid-Meiji stable by the front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: 3.9 by 4.1 metres, with cattle kept below, servants above, and plain clay walls.

A mid-Meiji charcoal shed by the front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: 3.9 by 3.7 metres, its thick clay walls pairing with the stable opposite.

A late Meiji storehouse in the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, 7.9 by 5.9 metres, on a cut-stone base with board-lined rooms and three torii-framed windows.

Standing directly in front of the east exit of JR Ikuno Station, Kusaka Ryokan is a wooden two-story inn with a three-story wing, built in 1910 and expanded in 1921. As one of only a couple of wooden three-story buildings to have stood along the rail line between Himeji and Kinosaki, it is a remarkably rare survivor and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2004. Its sukiya-style tatami parlors and crane- and cloud-shaped openwork windows offer a vivid glimpse of refined Meiji- and Taisho-era inn architecture in Kuchiganaya, the historic silver mining town of Ikuno.

Kuniumi-no-Yakata, the former Mihara County Office, stands within Awaji Farm Park England Hill in Minamiawaji City, Hyogo Prefecture. Built in 1884 (Meiji 17), it is the oldest surviving county office building in Hyogo and the earliest pseudo-Western (gi-yofu) building on Awaji Island. The wooden two-story structure features a gabled tile roof, clapboard siding with imitation cornerstones, and a striking front porch with paired square and round columns supporting a relief-decorated pediment — all expressions of how Meiji-era Japanese carpenters reinterpreted Western architecture. Damaged in the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the building was carefully reconstructed at its current site in 2007 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.

Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Reception Wing, Miki: a late Meiji guest wing set at an angle to the main house, two eight-mat rooms with an alcove. Registered in 2019.