Meiji

Built of stone around 1903, this is Aichi's oldest school gate, and one of thirteen working prefectural school gates registered together in 2017, a first for Japan.

At the rear of the deep Inoue lot, beyond the garden, stands this small early-Meiji storehouse of about 31 square meters, its walls clad in boarding. Listed 2004.

On Honmachi-dori in Inuyama's castle town, this early-Meiji townhouse now houses a pickle shop and tearoom, so visitors can step right inside. Listed 2004.

Built in 1909, the chūden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, is a rare middle hall between the worship and covering halls, carved with dragons and cranes.

Built in 1882, the haiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, stands at the front of the central halls, richly carved, its roof re-tiled in 2024 to 2025.

Behind Eijuji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, the Kaisando honors the temple's founder while the adjoining Ihaido holds memorial tablets. Built in 1893.

The Sōryō (monks' quarters) of Enmyoji Temple, nestled between the main hall and priest's residence in Inuyama castle town, Aichi Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the mid-Meiji period. Distinguished by its kirizuma-zukuri gabled roof with sangawara pantiles and a formal stepped shikidai-genkan entrance facing the main hall, the building was registered on August 13, 2012, alongside the temple's other four historic structures. Set within the grounds of a Jōdo Shinshū temple famed for its 300-year-old weeping cherry tree, the Sōryō quietly tells the story of architectural evolution from the Edo through the early 20th century.

The East Takabei is a 17.4-meter plastered wall of a merchant compound in Inuyama, braced by buttress posts and listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The watari-ro of the Okumura Residence in Inuyama is a Meiji-era covered corridor doubling as a well-house, one of nine registered buildings now run as a restaurant.

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

The Catholic Chikara-machi Church Believers' Hall in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a colonial-style two-story wooden Western building constructed around 1889–1892 as the rectory for French missionary Father Tulpin. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the history of early Catholic evangelization and Meiji-era Western architecture in Nagoya.

This Meiji-era brick wall at Nagoya's oldest Catholic church stretches 29 meters along Chikara-machi Street, featuring English-bond brickwork atop a cut-stone base. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, it contributes to the historic streetscape of the Shirakabe–Chikara–Shumoku Preservation District along Nagoya's Cultural Path.

Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.

In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.

The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.

The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.

An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.

Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.

In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.

Built in 1903, the smallest and oldest of the storehouses. Its base wears namako tilework and a large ridge tile crowns it, dense with detail for its size.