Taishō

Taisho guest wing of the Senzairo inn at Yoro Park, built out on stilts, with red-plastered sukiya rooms named after plants and a three-storey moon-viewing platform.

Step onto a 98-meter stone platform built in 1923 and shelter in a small wooden waiting room beside rails of the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino City, Gifu. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, this Taisho-era station preserves the atmosphere of Japan's pre-war local railways and serves as the perfect entrance to Mino's famed "Udatsu" merchant townscape and washi paper culture.

Built in 1923 as the terminus of the Etsumi-Nan Line, this 24-metre-wide, 189-square-metre wooden station building still serves passengers more than a century later. Registered as a national heritage in 2013, it pairs naturally with a walk through Mino's Udatsu townscape.

Gifu Park's Nawa Insect Museum is a brick hall of 1919 by Takeda Goichi, the first registered property in Gifu Prefecture. Three Toshodaiji columns stand inside.

The Mizuno Family Residence Main House in Gujo Hachiman is a Taisho-era townhouse with a continuous upper-floor lattice, deep eaves and a rare udatsu; listed 2007.

Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the Ryokan Kaminaka in Takayama, plastered with a washed-mortar base. Each floor opens into the inn, so it has no stair inside.

A 43-meter dry-stone sabo dam built in 1921 above the Kamioka mining town, shielding the works from debris flows after the deadly 1920 disaster. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hida, Gifu.

A 1921 dry-stone sabo dam in a Hida ravine, registered as cultural property in 2019. Its hand-laid stones shielded the Kamioka zinc mine that powered modern Japan.

Raised in 1919 by a Kushima family enriched by forestry, the Former Yoshimatsu Family Residence keeps all five buildings. An Important Cultural Property since 2008.

The Aoki Bridge in Tomiyoshi, Miyazaki City, is a stone single-arch bridge completed in 1925 during the Taisho era. Although modest in scale at just 9.5 meters in length, its precisely cut ashlar masonry and finely assembled single-layer arch testify to the high craftsmanship of local stonemasons. It was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

A 1922 two-storey brick warehouse built by a cedar-trading family in Aburatsu, Nichinan, saved from auction by 31 local backers and now open free as a town hall.

The Kuroki Family Residence Zashiki Wing is a late Taisho reception wing in Ebino with two 8-mat rooms and a prized-timber alcove, said to be built for Semyonov.

The Kuroki Family Residence Main House in Ebino is an early Taisho timber home with a central corridor, wraparound veranda and a porch roof on its west gable.

The Kuroki Family Residence Kitchen Wing in Ebino is an early Taisho kitchen with a one-sided hip-and-gable roof, an earth-floored doma and high windows for light.

The Kuroki Family Residence Storehouse in Ebino is a two-story early Taisho kura in white lime plaster, with a hachimaki band at its eaves and a mizukiri ledge.

Wooden station building of 1912 on the JR Kitto Line in Ebino, Miyazaki, keeping its original ticket window, luggage counter and waiting-room benches today.

South of the main house, Furusawa Brewery's gate and wall date to around 1923. The bracket-arm gate and an 18-meter plastered wall with lattice windows frame the street.

Furusawa Brewery's shop and main house faces the street of Ōdōtsu. Built around 1913, its black-plastered front and irimoya wing recall a town enriched by brewing.

The 1924 main hall of Aoba Shrine in Sendai, dedicated to Date Masamune, is a three-bay nagare-style hall pairing geometric beam ends with medieval-style struts.

The Ebiki Front Storehouse is a 1920s earthen store beside the old shop in Toyoma, Miyagi. It held stock and grain, with doors to both shop and street.