Meiji

Running 84 meters along the western edge of Tokugawaen in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Wall changes finish as it goes, from plaster and clapboard to cedar bark.

Standing south of the black gate in Nagoya, the Tokugawa Garden Side Nagaya is a single-storey range of about 1900, 19.6 meters long, with barred windows.

Built in 1883 and registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building sets upper, middle and lower rooms at stepped floor levels, with a shelter for a guest's attendants.

A Rinzai Zen main hall in Inuyama's castle town, rebuilt in 1896 after the Nobi earthquake. Its outer sanctuary omits the dividing columns, opening one wide space.

Two joined storehouses of 1876 behind the Tomita deputy's house in Okazaki, Aichi, black-boarded below and plastered above. Registered 2020; documents on view.

A Meiji-period storehouse on the old Tokaido in Arimatsu, Nagoya. Registered in 2008, it shows black lime plaster, a washed plinth and fire-sealing doors upstairs.

Discover Nakamura Park Memorial Hall, a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1910 in Nagoya. This elegant shoin-zukuri guest house once hosted the Crown Prince and stands as the oldest surviving Meiji-era public wooden building in the city.

An early Meiji tea house moved to Nakamura Park in 1957, Nakamura Park Hoshoken has a main room of four and a half mats plus a daime. Registered in 2017.

Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Main House, a late-Meiji brewer's townhouse on the old Tokaido in Toyohashi registered in 2014: six-room plan, lattice, eaves.

Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.

The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.

Built in 1907 on a high stone plinth against the Yahagi River, the Hatcho Miso Head Office Storehouse brewed miso until 1941 and reopened as a museum in 1991.

The Banjo Brewery Main House in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo two-storey dwelling of 171 square meters with a black plastered street front, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery New Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is an early Meiji fermentation hall of 298 square meters with 8 continuous posts, registered in 2007.

The Banjo Brewery Outer Well in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a group of 6 early Meiji shafts on a detached plot, with concrete and Tokoname stoneware curbs, 2007.

The Motogura of Banjo Jozo in Odaka, Nagoya: a middle Meiji timber fermentation hall listed 2007, with steaming and testing rooms attached. Closed to visitors.

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.