Taishō

The middle hall of Ikaruga-dera's Shotoku-den links a 17th-century front hall to an octagonal rear hall modelled on Horyu-ji's Yumedono. Built in 1916.

Discover the Kobe Golf Club Chamber, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1924 on Mount Rokko. Originally the Thursday Club social hall for Osaka businessmen, this single-story wooden lodge preserves the heritage of Japan's oldest golf course.

Nestled at the inner edge of Kinosaki Onsen in Toyooka, Hyōgo, the Main Hall of Gokurakuji is a Taishō-era (1921) Zen temple building that blends a traditional six-room hōjō plan with modern glass-paned elements. Linked to the revered Zen master Takuan Sōhō, it was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2015. Visit it alongside the Seikantei karesansui garden, the Dokkosui sacred spring, and the famous seven public bathhouses of Kinosaki.

Discover Shioya Bridge in Awaji Island Park — a 1918 Taisho-era pony bowstring double Warren truss made of riveted Yawata steel. One of only four such bridges remaining in Japan, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property gracefully spans Showa Pond and offers a quiet encounter with Japan's industrial heritage.

Built in 1921 during the Taishō period, the Yamada Family Residence Main House is a beautifully preserved Japanese-style villa in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture. Registered in 1999 as the city's first nationally registered tangible cultural property, this elegant wooden dwelling features a hip-and-gable tile roof, lattice-windowed study, and a distinctive north-facing contemplative garden, capturing the refined residential culture of Takarazuka's early development as an upscale suburb.

Discover the Yutouya Ryokan Front Gate and Wall in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1926. Explore this yakuimon-style gate with inventive reinforced-concrete pillars finished in rust-red pebble washout, gracing the entrance of a beloved inn founded in 1688 and rebuilt after the 1925 North Tajima Earthquake.

Ryotei Bunshiro Kyukan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. This pre-war culinary ryokan features a stately shoin-style banquet hall and individually designed guest rooms showcasing sukiya and soan aesthetics, with remarkable ceiling craftsmanship including umbrella and wickerwork designs.

Ryotei Bunshiro Shinkan is an early Showa-period tatami room building located in the former castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it features five guest rooms with distinctive sukiya-style designs including umbrella and woven bamboo-strip ceilings, preserving the refined atmosphere of pre-war Japanese cuisine-focused inns.

Discover the Former Tsujikawa Post Office in Fukusaki, Hyogo — a 1923 wooden pseudo-Western building with charming postal-mark decorations, now home to a yokai-themed book cafe and boutique inn near the childhood home of folklorist Yanagita Kunio.

Tatsumi-gura, the southeast storehouse of the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Cut stone base, boarded lower wall, round gable window.

The Onaya at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Two joined frames, an earthen floor, a mezzanine and exposed-post plaster walls.

Kita-gura at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Its eaves floor runs continuously with the covered passage from the main house.

This 1926 former court of appeals is the largest surviving public building of Sapporo soft stone. An Important Cultural Property, it now houses a free city museum.

The Third Storehouse closely resembles its neighbour the Second, yet its king-post roof truss and raised upper floor set it apart. Built in 1921, registered in 2006.

The Koji-Making House is the newest of the registered buildings, built in 1922. A plain brick structure, it holds the koji room in one corner. Registered in 2006.

The largest brick warehouse at the Kobayashi Brewery in Hokkaido. Built in 1921, its gable windows, dentils and ridge tiles lend quiet ornament. Registered in 2006.

Built in 1918 as the Hakodate sales office of Asano Cement, led by the legendary industrialist Asano Soichiro known as Japan's Cement King, this Western-style wooden building features an elegant European-inspired facade with tower-like projections, a fanlight entrance, and a balcony. Constructed by master carpenter Muraki Jinzaburo, who also built the Old Hakodate Ward Public Hall, the building was faithfully restored from a single historical photograph after years of abandonment, earning registration as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Discover the Itani Family Residence Incense Waterwheel Shed in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture—a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property preserving the vanishing tradition of waterwheel-powered incense production in Japan's Kii Peninsula.

Standing in the Tankaku district of Shingu City, Wakayama, the Former Chapman House Main Building is a two-story wooden Western-style residence completed in 1926. It was designed by Shingu native Nishimura Isaku for the American Presbyterian missionary E.N. Chapman, embodying the architect's pioneering 'living-room-centered' home philosophy. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2020, it is now freely open to visitors and pairs beautifully with nearby Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Shingu Castle Ruins.

A reinforced-concrete gate on the estate's southern edge, west of the bath building, where two piers carry a segmental arch and keystone in pared-down Western style.