Meiji

The main entrance of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1895 to link the guest hall and kuri, has a cusped gable with three pendants that anchors the grounds.

The guest hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, has a coffered inner hall and outer halls arranged as a broad, open space with very few interior posts.

The priests' quarters of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, have a large hearth room where a pair of pillars recut from the former main hall still stands.

The Daishoin of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1899 and linked to the guest hall by an arched bridge, has calm audience rooms with snow-country verandas.

The main hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, head temple of a Hokke school branch, was built in 1903 by carpenters from Toyama and is richly decorated with carvings.

Built just after Murakami's 1892 fire by carpenter Inagaki Gentaro, this main house, brewery and koji room show a 9.5-ken west gable beside the 1934 street store.

A 2-storey tool storehouse of about 1892 behind a Murakami sake shop, with a tall boarded base and exposed-post upper wall, said bought in 1909 with brewing gear.

The 1909 home of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado, rebuilt from an older house and turned gable-end on, keeping the open void over the living room of Sado farmhouses.

A large mid-Meiji timber barn at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, 12 metres long with a side gate built into its west wall, older than the 1909 main house.

A 12 square metre early Meiji earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, older than the main house and walled in mortar and sheet iron.

The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Raiden, Nagaoka, is a large 1878 chumon-zukuri farmhouse with its entrance and stable set in a projecting front wing.

The Morohashi Family Residence Storehouse of 1905 in Niigata City holds a rice store and a storeroom behind walls of exposed posts topped by a white plaster cornice.

The Rengebuji Temple Guest Hall on Sado, built in 1909 after a flood, is the largest building in the precinct, eight rooms wrapped by a wide L-shaped veranda.

The Rengebuji Temple Jizo Hall on Sado, built in 1893, is the main hall of the sub-temple Hoshakuin and the first stop on the old Sado Shikoku pilgrimage route.

An early Meiji barn in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. The thatched roof is notched helmet-style to light the loft, and eaves ride on a projecting dashigeta.

Standing at the heart of Yokohama's historic Bashamichi district, the Former Yokohama Specie Bank Head Office Main Building is a magnificent Neo-Baroque masterpiece completed in 1904 by architect Tsumaki Yorinaka. Crowned by the iconic octagonal copper dome known as 'Ace's Dome,' clad in giant Corinthian orders and rusticated stonework, this stately building has survived the Great Kanto Earthquake and wartime fires. Designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1969 and a National Historic Site in 1995, it serves today as the Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History.

The main hall of Oyamadera, halfway up Mount Oyama in Kanagawa, is a grand Shingon hall of 1885 whose dragon-carved porch recalls the heyday of the Oyama pilgrimage.

Dated 1899 and moved in 1933, this 17-square-metre plastered storehouse is the oldest building on its Yokohama plot, kept when the main house was rebuilt.

The 1895 first-class isolation lodge of the Nagahama Quarantine Station, registered in 2018 and relocated in 2025 to Umi-no-Koen in Yokohama.

The first ward of the Nankoin sanatorium in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, built in 1899, is a weatherboarded ward with pedimented sash windows, seen from a memorial garden.