Meiji

Built in 1911 as a merchant family's villa in Handa, Aichi, this half-timbered house attributed to Suzuki Teiji became an Important Cultural Property in 1976.

Built on Kyoto's Kawaramachi in 1907 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this Anglican church pairs a brick ground floor with a timber hall under bamboo ceilings.

Hasshokan, a Nagoya ryotei grown from an 1880s timber merchant's villa, had nine buildings designated in 2020, centered on Horiguchi Sutemi's imperial Miyuki-no-ma.

Step inside Japan's only surviving early-Meiji prefectural office, a 54-meter pseudo-Western masterpiece of 1879 that hosted Emperor Meiji and now stands relocated at Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi.

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.

Built in 1908 as the Imperial Army's 15th Division headquarters at Toyohashi, this plain wooden hall is now Aichi University Memorial Hall, open free on weekdays.

Oldest of five registered buildings at this Toyohashi shrine, raised in 1885: a kagura stage with a boat-bottom ceiling, a painted pine backdrop and a Noh side door.

Isegami Tunnel at Isegami Pass in Toyota, Aichi is a 308-metre granite road tunnel of 1897 with a rusticated stone portal. Registered in 2000, free to walk through.

Izutsuro is an 1868 timber inn at Fukue in Tahara, Aichi, registered in 2022. Three wings ring a courtyard, and a 52-mat banquet hall occupies the upper floor.

A tea house of 1868 in the corner of a private garden in Tsushima, Aichi. Moved from Yatomi in 1948 onto a built-up mound. Four-and-a-half mats, 24 square metres.

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.

A townhouse of 1900 on Honmachi-dori in Inuyama, Aichi, built on a corner: plain gable north, hipped gable south, eaves wrapping round. Registered in 2005.

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.

A tiny Meiji strongroom beside the Okumura main house in Inuyama. Just 14 square metres, yet its tiled canopies and black plaster answer the view from the west.

A Meiji storehouse west of the Okumura rice store in Inuyama. Three ken square, taller than its neighbour, and finished with ridge-end tiles that mark a higher rank.

A Meiji outbuilding in Inuyama sharing two walls with a storehouse and a boundary wall, forming a narrow alley-like space against the compound's covered passage.