Meiji

Built in 1880, the Yoshioka Amida hall is a tiny 3.8-square-metre worship space enshrining Amida Nyorai behind latticed doors. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Said to have been moved from Kumamoto city, the Yoshioka Edo storehouse is a small two-storey plastered dozo, one of six family structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1885 in Kutami, Yamaga, the Yoshioka main house anchored a sericulture estate. Its hip-and-gable roof and six-room plan center a compound registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka fence runs 35 metres on a split-stone base, its bracing matching the gate along the street edge in Kutami. One of six registered in 2016.

Built around 1889, the Yoshioka Meiji storehouse doubled as a stable, with a cart passage and iron tethering fittings inside. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.

At Kusatsu Onsen's center, 4,040 liters surface every minute through seven wooden conduits in Taro Okamoto's gourd-shaped basin. A National Scenic Beauty since 2017.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

The Former Katsuyama-sha Brick Warehouse in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, is a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1902. Originally constructed for the Katsuyama-sha textile company founded by silk merchant Katsuyama Sozaburo, this two-story brick storehouse features exquisite over-fired bricks in English bond pattern with traditional Japanese kura-style design elements. Discover this hidden gem of Japan's Meiji-era silk industry heritage.

Completed in 1911 just south of No. 6, this fermentation shed echoes the older one, its pantile roof later re-covered in slate, and it meets No. 8 in twin gable ends.

The oldest of Shoda Soy Sauce's four brewing sheds, built in 1908, with a king-post truss and a rare hipped-and-gabled roof from the dawn of industrial brewing.

Discover the Aratogawa Bridge of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma. This registered tangible cultural property features British-made steel girders from 1903, rebuilt after the devastating 1947 Typhoon Kathleen. Explore its industrial heritage along the scenic route at the foot of Mt. Akagi.

Discover Shiraiya, a registered tangible cultural property in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture. This Meiji-era wooden inn features distinctive segai-zukuri architecture and preserves the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese hatago along the Mikuni Kaidō route.

The smallest of the eight Fujiu buildings in Kiryu, Gunma, this early-Meiji shelter guards an Edo-period Inari shrine. Private; not open to the public.

A two-story early-Meiji retirement house at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, joined to the main house across a garden. Private; not open to the public.

A two-story plastered kura at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, attached to the main house to shield stored goods from fire. Private; not open to the public.

An early-Meiji bracket gate at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, moved intact in 1973 when the road was widened. Private; not open to the public.

Early-Meiji working buildings at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma: a water mill and storehouse under one tiled roof. Private; not open to the public.