Meiji

The Sixth Storehouse ends the row, its only single-story warehouse. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with sliding doors front and back. Registered in 2006.

Rising along the Sosei River in central Sapporo, the Sapporo Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan (formerly Sapporo Methodist Episcopal Church) is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1904. Built of local Sapporo soft stone over a wooden frame, its charming octagonal bell tower blends Romanesque and Gothic elements. This guide traces the church's origins in the Meiji era, when students inspired by William S. Clark founded Hokkaido's first Methodist community, and introduces its architectural highlights and nearby attractions.

Discover the Hakodate Chinese Memorial Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the only remaining late Qing Dynasty-style building in Japan. Built in 1910 by overseas Chinese merchants, this brick Guandi temple features exquisite nail-free construction and lavish interiors.

Built in 1901 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this former Sapporo college classroom sets a pilastered, pedimented front against plain hipped wings.

Built in 1902 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this compact two-story brick library stack rewards a close look at its clinker base and stepped gable coping.

Built in 1902 by Chujo Seiichiro, this T-shaped timber reading hall wears two rooftop lanterns and windows crowned by alternating triangular and segmental pediments.

Inside the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden stands the former home of John Batchelor, the Ainu-studies missionary: a trim clapboard house of 1898, moved here in 1905.

The office of Hokkaido University's Botanic Garden is the east wing of the old zoology-botany hall of 1901, moved here in 1942, its entrance crowned by a pediment.

Furukawa Memorial Hall of 1909 was the forestry classroom of Tohoku Imperial University's agriculture college: a Renaissance timber hall with a mansard roof and turret.

Built in 1898, Japan's only surviving Japanese-style prefectural assembly hall hides a Western truss above its plaster-walled chamber. Restored at Negoro, Iwade.

The Izumi Family Residence Zashiki in Hirogawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture, is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1904. Built by the eighth-generation head of the Izumi maritime merchant family, this elegant guest hall features exceptional craftsmanship and high-quality materials, with its white plastered gable walls contributing to the historic Hiro district townscape. It is a constituent cultural property of the Japan Heritage site 'Hyakusei no Ando.'

At the western edge of the Ueda estate in Hashimoto, Wakayama, this late-Meiji detached parlour holds three eight-mat guest rooms, raised on walls of Kishu blue stone.

Discover the Former Katsuragi-kan (Kyū Katsuragi-kan), a striking three-story wooden inn built in the late Meiji period at JR Kōyaguchi Station in Wakayama Prefecture. Now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and charming café, this architectural gem blends temple-style roofing with full-glass façades.

The Former Kanda Family Villa (Toson-tei) in Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1874. Constructed from a massive cedar log that drifted ashore — a gift of gratitude from a fisherman saved during a famine — this heritage building now operates as part of NIPPONIA HOTEL Kushimoto Kumano Kaido, offering guests an immersive stay within living history.

On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.

A south-facing early Meiji farmhouse in Nanayama, Kainan, once thatched and now tiled: a timber single-storey house with a doma and a four-room plan. Private home.

Discover the Former Chapel of Nippon Sei Ko Kai Hashimoto Christ Church in Wakayama Prefecture, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property where an early Meiji-era farmhouse from Yoshino was transformed into an Anglican chapel. Explore this rare fusion of Japanese vernacular architecture and Christian heritage near the gateway to Mount Koya.

The Hashimoto new drawing room in Gobo is a small two-story timber reception house, said to have been built for a bride's arrival around 1912. Registered 2020.

Hatsuzakura's later-Meiji igura adjoins its brewing hall, the two forming a long wall that preserves the streetscape of Katsuragi's once-thriving sake trade.

Hatsuzakura's early-Meiji shikomi-gura runs sixteen bays north to south, the oldest and largest of its halls and still the working heart of a brewing town.