Taishō

Wooden clinic of 1920 in Gujo Hachiman with a washed-concrete front, overhanging upper floor, arched lower windows and plaster ornament on the porch brackets.

Tucked beside Mino's historic washi-papermaking district in Gifu Prefecture, the Former Meitetsu Mino-machi Line Mino Station Platform and Tracks preserve a U-shaped 1923 terminal almost untouched since the line closed in 1999. Cobblestone platform walls, L-section steel canopies, and original 1919 Carnegie rails survive intact, joined by three vintage streetcars and the wooden station building. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property with free admission, the site is a charming starting point for exploring the Udatsu townscape and Mino's UNESCO-recognized handmade paper heritage.

Standing almost untouched since 1923, the Former Meitetsu Mino-machi Line Mino Station in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's most evocative railway time capsules. The pale pink wooden station, U-shaped platforms, original Carnegie-made tracks, and three preserved streetcars all remain exactly as they were when the line closed in 1999. Lovingly maintained by a volunteer society and designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, the site is freely open to visitors and lies just three minutes on foot from Mino-shi Station, making it the perfect first stop on a walk through the city's famous Udatsu historic townscape.

A 1926 earthen-walled fermenting hall at a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu, 10 by 6 bays, with a former koji room upstairs and a wide floor for rows of tubs below.

A 1926 annexe to a Yoro sake brewery's fermenting hall in Gifu, pairing a Japanese-style inspection room with a Western-style tax office from liquor tax's heyday.

A 1924 sake shop beside the main house of a Yoro brewery in Gifu, 5.8 metres wide, its upper front in black plaster matching the house; shop in front, store behind.

A 1926 shed where a Yoro brewery in Gifu washed and steamed its rice: open on two sides, with a belt pulley still on its king post truss, smallest of seven listed.

The largest of seven listed buildings at a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu: a 1926 earthen-walled hall where mash was pressed, aged and bottled under a doubled-beam roof.

Hidden deep within a forested ravine in Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, the Kuwadani No.1 Sabo Dam is a remarkable hand-built erosion-control structure completed in 1921. Constructed of meticulously fitted mortared stonework, it was built in response to a devastating 1914 sediment disaster and forms part of Japan's first major sabo project on the Jinzu River system. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, it stands as a quiet testament to early twentieth-century Japanese civil engineering craftsmanship.

The Kuwadani No. 5 Sabo Dam, located in Kuwano, Miyagawa-cho, Hida City, Gifu Prefecture, is a dry stone masonry erosion-control dam built in 1920 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2019. The tallest of the historic sabo dams in the upper Jinzū River system, this hand-built structure quietly preserves the civil engineering heritage of Taishō-era Japan. Its four-meter sliding waterfall and weathered stonework tell the story of a century-long stand against landslides in one of the country's most mountainous regions.

Built in 1920 by hand alone, the Kuwadani No. 10 Sabo Dam in Hida, Gifu is a 23-by-4.5-meter dry-stone check dam with a mortared auxiliary sub-dam set against its front face. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2019.

Built in 1921, the Kuwadani No. 2 Erosion-Control Dam stands 6.4 metres tall and 26 metres wide in a tributary of the Miyagawa River in Hida City, Gifu. Its mortared stonework, paired with the matching Dam No. 1 just downstream, forms a cascading pair registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2019.

Completed in 1920 at the head of the Kuwatani ravine in Hida City, this 36-metre dry-stone sabo dam still records the hand-laid masonry of the Taisho era.

An early-Taisho guest annex of the Goto family in Gifu City, with an eight-mat room, a tea room and refined sukiya joinery. Moved in 1970 and registered in 2021.

The Komachi Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1925 storehouse on a round-stone base, clad in black boards with bracketed canopies on the south.

A three-span suspension bridge of 1926 over the Hida River in Shirakawa, Gifu, registered in 2013, with steel towers and granite end posts.

At Shinryuji Temple in Gifu, a Taisho-era corridor joins a karahafu entrance and a small tea room with a round window and a sliding-slat window for sensing guests.

Main house of the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, built in 1923 as a pawnbroker's shop and home, with a front lattice in Takayama's typical rectangle-over-square grid.

Late Taisho miso storehouse beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, now its kitchen, fronted by a latticed lean-to that joins the main house on the street.

Pledge storehouse of 1923 beside the Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, secured with earthen doors and iron grilles, its inner doors detailed in black plaster.