Meiji
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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.
The Onoda Family Residence Main Building in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a wing added in 1920 and an 1849 gatehouse nearby. Registered in 2013.
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.
The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.
The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.
The Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey mud-walled kura with a sheltered porch, used daily for household tools.
The Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre strip of building, 1.8 metres deep, whose black wall reads as a fence.
The Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji kura of 80 square metres, its 7.3-metre span crossed by beams trebled up in the roof frame.
The Kamiya Family Residence Plastering Room and Charcoal Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a workshop range of about 1905 built continuous with the estate's main gate.
The Kamiya Family Residence Tatami Room in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji reception wing of 85 square metres with a circular lattice window and a tea room.
The Kamiya Family Grain Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey kura whose window hood brackets are modelled in plaster into spiral scrolls.
The Kamiya Family Residence Main Gate in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre gatehouse of 1905, hipped at the east end and gabled at the west, with rooms built in.
The Kamiya Family Residence Yokoya in Anjo, Aichi, is an early Meiji wing boarded shut towards the street and opened with posts and a veranda on the courtyard side.
The Kamiya Family Residence Connecting Passage in Anjo, Aichi, is a 13-metre link joining the estate's workrooms to its rice storehouse, open on the inner side.
Moved from a town in 1917 and remade as a farmhouse, the Kawata Family Residence in Fuso, Aichi keeps a machiya roof and plan while its upper floor reared silkworms.
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.
A timber school hall of about 1897 in Okazaki, Aichi, sold to a spinning mill in 1925 and moved onto its grounds. Said to be Japan's oldest of its kind.