Meiji

The 1898 core of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka. A two-storey brewery adjoins a five-storey block with fireproof floors and cavity walls.

The largest wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, extended in three ranges from 1908 as Kabuto Beer sold. Note the English-bond walls, gables and strafing marks.

The single-storey half-timber wing of Aichi's Handa Red Brick Building, built in 1898 to wash, fill and ship bottles. Its timber frame recalls the Tomioka Silk Mill.

Built in 1668 at Toyohashi's beloved Fumonji Maple Temple, this eight-legged gate (yatsuashi-mon) houses a pair of muscular Kongō Rikishi guardian statues carved by the sculptor Daizen the previous year. Newly registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in March 2025 alongside five other Edo-period buildings, the gate's hipped copper roof and refined sculptural details make it one of the finest surviving early-Edo temple gates in the Tōkai region.

Built in 1903 for the local war dead, this single-bay memorial hall at Hōshuin spans about 20 square meters, its porch carved with Rising Sun motifs of its era.

Hidden in the precincts of a quiet Pure Land temple in Tsushima, Aichi, the Hosenji Shoin (former Hattori Family Residence Shoin) is a refined sukiya-style shoin originally built around the 1890s for a wealthy fertilizer merchant and donated to the temple in 1930. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, it preserves the elegant tokonoma alcove, paulownia transoms, polished round timbers, and a small tea room with shitaji-mado windows that defined refined Meiji-era town-merchant architecture. A perfect addition to a heritage walk that includes Tsushima Shrine and the Hotta Family Residence.

Built in 1883 by a former Naruse retainer turned silk grower, this is the only samurai-style house left in Inuyama's castle town. A spear rack recalls its warrior past.

A thick-walled kura from 1893 at the Horibe Residence in Inuyama. Plaster and dark boarding give it the classic armor of a storehouse, built for a silk-trading family.

Discover the Main Hall of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1896 by renowned master carpenter Onoda Matazō. Explore its 1,200-year history, stunning carvings, and ancient trees.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.

In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.

The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.

The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.

At Meiji Mura near Inuyama stands a sentry box from the gate of Tokyo's Akasaka Palace, a National Treasure. Built in 1908, it is a Registered Cultural Property.

Built around 1887 in Kobe, now at Meiji-mura, this registered property pairs a stone-look Western front with a Japanese gabled porch and still serves beef hotpot.

Built in 1909 on the Gakushūin grounds in Tokyo and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this registered property links a private Japanese wing to a Western office wing.

Built in 1907, Kanazawa Prison ranged five cell blocks around an octagonal guardhouse so a warder watched every wing. A timber wing survives at Museum Meiji-mura.

Built in 1907 for Kanazawa Prison and rebuilt at Museum Meiji Mura in 1977, this red-brick gate by Yamashita Keijiro survives from the Five Great Meiji Prisons.

An octagonal guardhouse from Kanazawa Prison, one of Meiji's Five Great Prisons. Five cell wings once radiated from this watch point, now preserved at Meiji Mura.

An 1895 earthen storehouse that once brewed sake in Kariya, now at Meiji-mura. Note its drop-away fire boards, torii-shaped roof frame, and registered status.