Taishō

Discover Kaikodo Murakamiya, a 1926 copper-façade kanban building registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in Mishima, Shizuoka, now home to Distillery Water Dragon.

The Former Igarashi Dental Clinic, a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kambara-juku along the old Tokaido road in Shizuoka, is a unique pseudo-Western building created in 1914 by renovating a traditional townhouse. With its Western clapboard exterior concealing a purely Japanese interior featuring exquisite transom carvings and original Taisho-era dental equipment, this free-admission cultural property offers a fascinating glimpse into early 20th-century provincial life and architecture.

Not a dam but a 70-metre dry-stone channel of around 1912, Kiwadagawa Channel Works No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, guides the stream into Dam No. 8 at the valley head.

The lowest dry-stone check dam in a group built around 1912 after an 1910 storm, Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is nicknamed the helmet dam.

Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 5 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is a small dry-stone dam of around 1912 that fixes the streambed as a ground sill within a state-designated sabo project.

Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 3 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, blends old dry stonework with a modern trapezoidal overflow. Built around 1912, it marks a turning point in sabo work.

The Sagisaka Family Residence Inkyo-beya is a refined Taisho-era retirement quarters built in 1923 for a miso and soy sauce brewing family in the historic Mitsuke-juku post town, Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this two-story wooden building features elegant hira-shoin style rooms with shitaji-mado lattice windows, preserving the architectural heritage of the old Tokaido highway.

The Sagisaka Family Residence (Tsuruya Honten) Bunko-gura is a three-story earthen storehouse built in 1917 along the historic Tōkaidō highway in Mitsuke, Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Constructed for a prominent miso and soy sauce brewing family, it features an Izu stone foundation, white plaster walls, and fire-resistant kakego-nuri doors. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024.

Joined to the Main Hall, this station for the shika stands beside the Main Hall and Great Kuri, anchoring the central precinct. Built c.1915, registered 2019.

This worship hall faces the small Shichison Bosatsu-dō within its outer shelter. The shrine behind is a separate Important Cultural Property. Registered 2019.

A one-bay-square, skirt-base bell tower east of the Main Hall plaza, set on a cobblestone platform, its open upper level held by two-stepped brackets. Registered in 2019.

A long kuri of 513 square metres east of the Main Hall, its central karahafu porch and hip-and-gable projections forming a bold face. Registered 2019.

A guest entrance joined to the Main Hall’s west face, with a front-facing karahafu tile roof and a chrysanthemum crest reflecting the temple’s imperial-prince founder.

Standing on the banks of the Matsukawa River in Ito, Shizuoka, Ryokan Inaba is a three-story wooden hot spring inn built in the late Taisho era and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 1998. Famous for its dome-shaped tower nicknamed the 'aburazashi,' polished zelkova floors, a 53-tatami great hall, and tanuki-shaped bath spouts, it now welcomes travelers as the heritage guesthouse K's House Ito Onsen.

Discover Asanogawa Ohashi, a 1922 reinforced concrete arch bridge in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property links the Higashi and Kazuemachi tea districts with its elegant triple-arch silhouette.

The Asanogawa Ohashi-zume Fire Watchtower, standing at the northern foot of the Asanogawa Ohashi bridge in Kanazawa's Higashiyama district, is the oldest surviving fire watchtower in the city. Built in 1924 with a distinctive triangular steel-frame design reaching approximately 11 meters, it is designated as a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The sole survivor of Kanazawa's historic Three Watchtowers, it preserves the memory of Taisho-era fire prevention at the gateway to the Higashi Chaya District.

Built in 1922 as an army commander's villa by Kenrokuen, this Kanazawa house shows a different face on each side and opens free beside a conservation studio.

Built in 1916 in Kanazawa's Ishibiki quarter, this small former clinic is a timber building disguised as Western stone, with a scored mortar front and pilasters.

In Kanazawa, a 1916 wooden townhouse stands behind a former clinic, its plan separating patient and family routes, an early mark of modern urban living in Japan.

In Kanazawa's Ishibiki, the Ueno Family Storehouse is a small 1916 dozo with white-plastered walls and a placed tiled roof, a cultural property near Kenrokuen.