Meiji

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Registered in 2013, this 1888 house is the oldest building at Yoshino Ryokan in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, and its four living rooms and Buddhist altar room still survive.

A long mid-Meiji house of the Yoshimura brewing family in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, with family rooms to the east and a northwest guest suite with carved transoms.

A white-plastered 1908 storehouse in the northwest corner of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto, linked to the main house by a corridor across the garden.

The oldest building of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: an 1869 black-plastered storehouse whose roof rests on two ridge-line posts and a jimune beam.

The mid-Meiji west gate and south wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a copper-edged gate with lattice doors and a wall faced in boards and bark.

The mid-Meiji east gate and east wall of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: a small bracket-arm gate with lattice doors and a 13-meter board fence.

A 1909 three-storey timber inn at Hinagu Onsen, Yatsushiro, with eaves and glass doors on every floor of its street front and a 1914 wing; registered in 2009.

At Kusatsu Onsen's center, 4,040 liters surface every minute through seven wooden conduits in Taro Okamoto's gourd-shaped basin. A National Scenic Beauty since 2017.

A 1908 brick chimney at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, about 14 meters tall in English bond with a steel top, linked underground to the steaming room.

A 1908 work building at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, where rice was washed and steamed and sake was bottled, with a flue running to the brick chimney.

A 1909 brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with a koji room in its west lean-to and a wide interior now used for concerts, markets and exhibits.

An early Meiji farmhouse moved to Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, in 1900 as shop, office and home, with a wide earthen floor and a four-room grid plan.

A small 1908 plastered storehouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, built to hold license papers and ledgers, with a separate placed roof and plaster shutters.

A large 1908 earthen brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with cedar-boarded lower walls under white plaster, where the yeast starter and mash were made.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

Built between 1883 and 1897 and spared by the great Omama fire of 1895, this timber merchant house in Midori City, Gunma, still trades as a soy sauce shop.

A 1905 fireproof storehouse in Shimonita, Gunma, the largest on the Ogino property, with kakegonuri doors and an exposed truss roof upstairs. Registered in 2009.