Meiji

The Yabashi Family Residence Tea House in Ogaki dates to about 1868. Joined to the Shoin, it holds a tea room and mizuya, with slender knotted posts and deep eaves.

The Yabashi Family Residence West Storehouse in Ogaki, built c. 1868, is the largest of its 3 kura at 61 square metres, with 2 doorways and many plastered shutters.

Mid-Meiji inn building in Takayama with a karahafu canopy over the entrance and projecting lattices on both floors, its interior finely worked; still a ryokan.

An 1872 clay storehouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai brewery on the Seto River, square in plan, half earthen and half timber floor, under a stepped okiyane roof.

The 1881 brewhouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: at 133 square meters the largest of its clay storehouses, with south-facing doors on the Seto River.

Kurasaki Lighthouse on a cliff in Nichinan, Miyazaki, first lit in 1884 for the Yokohama to Hong Kong route, has one of the earliest concrete towers in Japan.

On the approach to Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, an early Meiji girder bridge of locally quarried Obi stone spans a cut ditch beside a 43-metre dressed-stone wall.

A 64-meter cut-stone wall marking Ioshi Shrine's sacred precinct in Obi, built in early Meiji using precision kenchi-zumi masonry of locally quarried Obi welded tuff stone.

The Iotoshi Shrine Kagura Hall and Worship Hall in Nichinan, Miyazaki, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1876 on the former site of the Itō clan's mortuary temple. Featuring refined Meiji-era wooden architecture and a backdrop of triple stone bridges in the registered Hōonji garden, it is a hidden gem on the edge of historic Obi castle town.

Built in 1876 on the former site of Hōon-ji Temple, the Itō clan's family temple, Iose Shrine Main Hall in Nichinan City, Miyazaki, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2010. With its restrained Meiji-era architecture, the rare three-tiered stone bridges of the old temple garden, and the Itō family graves at the rear, this quiet shrine on the edge of the Obi castle town offers a layered window into samurai-era and modern Japanese history.

Stone powerhouse of 1907 in Kiyotake, Miyazaki, with exposed masonry joints, tall windows and arched lights. Known as Kyushu's oldest surviving hydro plant.

Mid-Meiji main building of the Suzuki Ryokan in Aburatsu, Nichinan: two hip-and-gable blocks joined by a link, with a hall below and five guest rooms above.

Takahashi Family Residence Main House, Obi: a mid-Meiji hipped-roof home with a sukiya-style reception room, listed in 2010 as a model of design. Closed since 2023.

Takahashi Family Residence Barn, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey barn with a deep south lean-to, vertical boards on the front and weatherboarding elsewhere. Listed 2010.

Takahashi Family Residence West Storehouse, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey store on four courses of Obi stone, with two windows per floor facing south. Listed 2010.

The Takahashi Family Residence Detached Annex and Kitchen, Obi: a 14 m mid-Meiji wing whose kitchen still keeps a well, tiled sink and brick range. Listed 2010.

Takahashi Family Residence East Storehouse, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey gable-entry store on five courses of Obi stone, tied to the kitchen by an eave. Listed 2010.

The No. 1 Storehouse anchors Furusawa Brewery, founded in Miyazaki in 1892. Within its thick earthen walls, shochu mash ferments in ceramic jars kept cool without burial.

At the heart of Furusawa Brewery sits the kōji room, its board walls packed with rice husks. Since 1892, hand-made kōji has begun each batch of shochu here.

Furusawa Brewery's small late-Meiji No. 2 Storehouse pairs with the larger No. 1 hall on the north edge of the yard, fermenting Yaezakura shochu behind thick clay walls.