Meiji

A single-bay Kōrai gate facing south at the entrance to the approach, doorless with wing walls to either side, built of fine timber. Registered 2019.

A four-legged gate before the Founder’s Hall, copper-roofed with eave karahafu front and back and a chrysanthemum crest for its imperial-prince founder. Registered 2019.

Joined to the worship hall, this hall enshrines the guardian Hansōbō, said to have saved the founder at sea. It survived the 1881 fire. Registered 2019.

Spanning the Ayuzawa River in Oyama Town, Shizuoka, Morimura Bridge is a 39-metre steel truss completed in 1906 as a private trolley bridge for the Fuji Spinning Company. Designed by the Japanese engineer Akimoto Shigematsu and built at the Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipyard, it is one of the earliest domestically designed truss bridges in Japan and the oldest of its kind in the Chubu region. Listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, its 2020 restoration won the prestigious Tanaka Prize.

Discover the Former Ishikawa Prefecture Second Junior High School Main Building, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property in Kanazawa. Built in 1899, this colonial-style wooden schoolhouse known as the Three Spires now houses the Kanazawa Lifestyle Museum.

A red brick schoolhouse in Kanazawa, completed in 1891, was designed by Yamaguchi Hanroku, who trained in France. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1969.

Discover the Akakura Family Residence Main House, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic Uomachi fish merchant district of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. Learn about its architectural heritage and the castle town legacy of the Noto Peninsula.

A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.

Standing in the wooded precincts of Enuma Shrine in Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, the Chikkeikan is a graceful two-story timber residence built in 1900 as the country home of Maeda Toshika, the fourteenth and last lord of the Daishōji Domain. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2008, it preserves the formal reception spaces of an upper-rank samurai household—an upper chamber with a tokonoma alcove, a great hall, tatami corridors and a wide veranda—rendered in the refined craftsmanship of late-Meiji carpentry. Together with the neighboring Chōryūtei pavilion (an Important Cultural Property) and the city-designated stroll garden, it offers visitors a quietly atmospheric introduction to the heritage of Kaga's former castle town.

The Kitaōji Rosanjin Former Residence in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating from the early Meiji era. In 1915, the young Rosanjin stayed here to carve signboards and first encountered ceramics. Now open as 'Iroha Sōan,' visitors can explore his workroom, study, hearth room, traditional garden, and storehouse gallery.

The Kitaoji Rosanjin Residence Storehouse is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamashiro Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Built in the Meiji era, this earthen storehouse is where the celebrated multi-disciplinary artist Kitaoji Rosanjin stayed in 1915 and discovered his artistic calling. Now open to the public as Iroha Sōan, visitors can explore the rooms where Rosanjin lived and view his ceramic works.

Shokoji's main hall in Hakusan, Ishikawa, a large Shin Buddhist sanctuary of 1898, has round columns and Inami-carved transoms; a registered cultural property.

Discover Shingyo-ji Temple Shoin, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Wakura Onsen, Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture. Originally built in 1909 as an attendants' pavilion for Crown Prince Yoshihito (later Emperor Taisho), this rare surviving imperial rest building features exquisite uzukuri wood flooring and vibrant contemporary artwork.

Discover the Hatta Family Residence South Storehouse (Hatta-ke Jūtaku Minami-gura), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kanazawa's Imamachi district. This 1890 dozo-style storehouse preserves the rural heritage of the old Hokkoku Kaidō highway.

Oya Ryokan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property inn located beside the Isumi Shrine approach in Otaki, Chiba Prefecture. Founded in the late Edo period with its current building dating to around 1885, this historic inn is famed for its connections to poet Masaoka Shiki and manga artist Tsuge Yoshiharu, offering guests an authentic stay in Meiji-era heritage architecture.

Discover Kōunkaku, a nationally registered tangible cultural property within the precincts of Katori Shrine in Chiba. This grand Meiji-period Japanese-style hall, completed around 1900, features elegant karahafu-style entrance and harmonizes beautifully with one of Japan's most revered shrines.

Choshi's Nishihiro main house joins an 1877 merchant hall to a 1937 cypress wing, with the Inubosaki coast carved into its alcove window. Registered in 2018.

Kujukuri Church in Sammu City, Chiba Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1887. Missionary James Curtis Hepburn — creator of the Hepburn romanization system — contributed funds and design input for this early Japanese Protestant chapel, whose blend of Japanese and Western architecture reflects the dawn of Christianity in rural Meiji Japan.

The Sakamoto Sohonten Store in Yokaichiba, Sosa City, Chiba Prefecture, is a two-story kura-zukuri (warehouse-style) merchant building constructed in 1905, featuring distinctive black lacquer-plastered walls and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Founded in 1805, this historic confectionery continues to sell its signature peanut crackers, originally created for the Crown Prince in 1911, offering visitors a living encounter with Meiji-era architecture and centuries-old culinary traditions.

Sasaya Dozo is a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture — a Meiji-era earthen storehouse relocated in 1898 and originally linked to a tailor shop serving the famous Echigoya (predecessor of Mitsukoshi Department Store) in Nihonbashi, Edo. Featuring striking white and black plaster walls and robust double-beam construction, this two-story dozo now operates as a charming café and bar, offering visitors a taste of the historic streetscape that once thrived on Edo River commerce.