Taishō

The Takahashi Sake Brewery Chimney in Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture, is a striking hexagonal brick chimney standing approximately 20 meters tall, built around 1922 during the Taisho era. Registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this rare hexagonal structure features meticulous decorative brickwork and has survived air raids and major earthquakes over its century-long history, serving as a beloved symbol of the local community alongside its adjoining red-brick brewing storehouse.

Discover Takahashi Brewery New Storehouse (Takahashi Shuzō Shingura), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Nagaoka, Niigata. This striking red brick sake brewery, built around 1922, stands along the Suyoshi River as an enduring symbol of Taisho-era industrial architecture and traditional craftsmanship.

Discover the Nishinotani Irrigation Canal in Myoko City, Niigata — a 1926 stone-lined waterway uniquely integrated with a sabo dam. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property combines flood control and irrigation, still serving local rice paddies nearly a century later.

The Workshop at the Ninomiya Residence in Seiro, built in 1919, is a single-story building. Under its swept-down eaves, the household's daily labor went on.

The Main House of the Ninomiya Residence in Tawarayanagi, Niigata, was rebuilt in 1918 after a flood: a gable-entry farmhouse with modern carpentry by the river.

Built in 1917 with citizen donations to celebrate Yokohama Port's 50th anniversary, the Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall is a masterpiece of Tatsuno-style Free Classic architecture in red brick and granite. Discover its iconic 36-meter 'Jack's Tower,' historic stained glass windows depicting the port's origins, and the remarkable story of its restoration from the Great Kanto Earthquake to the 1989 dome reconstruction.

The Former Main Building of the Convent of the Daughters of Jesus in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is an elegant Western-style villa built in 1914 as a seaside retreat for Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito. Designed by imperial architect Kigo Kozaburo, the building features distinctive white German-style weatherboard cladding and a commanding tower. As the sole surviving imperial family villa in Hayama and the only pre-Great Kanto Earthquake imperial residence in the Shonan region, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

The Former Kondo Residence in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, is a 1925 seaside villa designed by Endo Arata, Frank Lloyd Wright's most devoted Japanese protégé. Now a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this Taisho-era masterpiece blends Wrightian Prairie School horizontality with traditional Japanese living. Saved by a grassroots citizens' movement and relocated to the Fujisawa Civic Hall garden in 1981, it is open to the public free of charge.

Yugyo-ji's Obankata is the formal reception building of the residential quarters. Its large carved irimoya porch served the head priest's departures. Built in 1913.

Reigenkaku in Hase, Kamakura, is a 1918 sukiya villa by Yamamoto Jotaro. Now a registered cultural property, it survived the 1923 earthquake and overlooks Yuigahama.

Seikan-tei is a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, built around 1906 as the villa of Marquis Kuroda Nagashige. Perched on the Sannomaru outer earthworks of Odawara Castle, this sukiya-style residence offers panoramic views of Sagami Bay and features exquisite painted fusuma doors and wickerwork ceilings. Since 2024, it operates as a Japanese restaurant where visitors can dine within a historic masterpiece.

The largest and latest of the five buildings, added around 1922 by second owner Hara Sankei. Its eastern part is built out over the sloping ground on tall posts.

The oldest of five thatched buildings in Hakone Gora Park, this farmhouse-style tea room by tea master Masuda Don’o has a sunken hearth and old salvaged timber.

The garden’s only non-tea building, a small bathhouse raised over a large natural boulder with a raw log frame, once the rock bath of the former mountain villa.

A grass-hut style tea room west of Hakuun-do, attributed to Ogi Rodo, with a tiny two-mat-plus-daime room and the unusual omission of a crawl-in door.

The waiting pavilion at the head of the garden path, its southeast corner cut away and spanned by a curved log with small rafters fanning into a decorative eave.

Hirayama Bridge, spanning the Nakatsu River in Aikawa Town, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a curved-chord Pratt truss steel bridge first constructed in 1913. As a rare surviving example of Taisho-era riveted steel bridge construction, it is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property and recognized as a Heritage of Modern Civil Engineering in Japan. The bridge also bears bullet scars from a 1945 World War II strafing attack, serving as a poignant war memorial.

Founded in 1882, the main building of Fujitaya Ryokan was built in 1923 and is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This two-story wooden inn features exquisite kumiko latticework and openwork-carved transoms, with natural hot spring water flowing from the inn's own private source in Yugawara Onsen.

On Tōgō Beach in Numazu, the Former Numazu Imperial Villa Garden was an imperial retreat across three eras. Its surviving 26-room West Annex stands amid black pines.

Discover Abekawa Bridge in Shizuoka, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Japan's longest bowstring truss bridge. Built in 1923 with British steel, this Taisho-era landmark connects the historic Tokaido post towns of Fuchu and Mariko.