Taishō

Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a largely intact 1912 standard station with a points lever house and the line's longest platform.

Steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 40 metres long, with Dorman Long girders on a spindle-shaped granite pier by Route 122.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, 20 metres long, with an old road bridge and Route 122 stacked above it in three tiers.

Straight brick tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, 82 metres long, hand-dug to a section close to Japan's first railway tunnel standard.

Down platform of 1912 at Sori Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 99 metres long, with a glazed timber shelter of 1927 and hydrangeas in July.

Up platform of 1912 at Sori Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 79 metres long and ramped at each end, with a gabled timber shelter of 1929.

Single-track tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 166 metres long with horseshoe brick portals, one of three Kanbai tunnels in the gorge.

Brick tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway near Godo in Midori, Gunma, with a later concrete rock shed bearing a plate on its materials and a cobble wall.

Brick tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, extended in 1937 with a concrete rock shed inscribed with its date and builder.

Straight brick tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 27 metres long with a dressed keystone, dug through cliffs at the Seven Bends.

Brick and stone tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway west of Godo in Midori, Gunma, with a concrete rock shed and wall at its west end, near a photo spot.

Short tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Sori in Midori, Gunma, 32 metres long with stone walls, a brick arch and a near-circular section.

Steel girder bridge of 1913 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway between Kiryu and Midori, Gunma, 30 metres long and gently bent, with an abutment rebuilt in 1948.

Steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, 16 metres long, combining two girder types on a 1937 stone pier, close to Mizunuma Station.

Small steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, a 15-foot standard I-beam on finely laid stone abutments just north of Mizunuma Station.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence storehouse in Shiraichi is the town's only three-storey kura, built by an ironcasting family in the Taishō era. Registered 2025.

Raised in 1925 and opened in 1927, this playhouse in Fuchū keeps its revolving stage, under-stage pit and hanamichi walkway beneath a Western king post truss roof.

A Taisho house in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, registered in 2012. Its 231 sq m plan has a cusped gable at the porch and a coved coffered ceiling in the main room.

A 31 sq m Taisho annexe in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima, linked to the main house by a roofed corridor. A cusped window and lobed bamboo lattice show unusual care.

Late Taisho sukiya-style annex at the Kanemitsu brewery in Kurose, Higashihiroshima, with a formal eight-mat room, a veranda all round and polished-log beams.