Taishō

Monma Elementary School Slide in Miyashiro, Saitama: a 1926 concrete slide, 3.1 m high and 6.8 m long, with a polished artificial-stone chute. Registered in 2020.

The Asake River Sabo Dam T11-1 in Komono, Mie, a mortared-stone erosion-control dam of 1922, is said to be the first of its kind in Mie, with an arched opening.

The Asake River Sabo Dam T11-2 in Komono, Mie, a dry-stone erosion-control dam of 1922 built of boulders up to 2 metres across, shows the skill of its builders.

Built in 1921 in the courtyard of an Ise inn, the Asanokan Storehouse pairs black lime plaster with wave-motif tiles above its inward-facing window. Registered 2014.

Asahi Town Folk Museum in Mie: a 1916 timber village office near the old Tokaido, with its assembly hall upstairs, now a folk museum open Wednesdays and Saturdays.

Uenoshi Station in Iga, Mie, a three-storey timber station of 1917 built for the Iga Tramway, crosses two gambrel roofs and is loved as a landmark of the town.

The Ota Arch Bridge of 1916 on the Iga Railway in Iga, Mie, runs a brick tunnel under the track between stone portals with a granite keystone, locally called Manbo.

The Ota No. 2 Culvert of 1916 on the Iga Railway in Iga, Mie, carries the track on 23 granite beams laid over stone piers, and still serves as a city road.

The Kuwamachi Overbridge on the Iga Railway in Iga, Mie, is a brick arch of 1922 over a single track, with cross-pierced parapets and a diagonal brick band.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Great Brewhouse, built in 1916 in Yokkaichi, is a 32.8-metre, black-clad brewhall over 10 metres tall that still produces sake today in Mie.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Artesian Well, built in 1916 in Yokkaichi, is a set of brick and concrete tanks for self-flowing water that gave the label Fukii its name.

A Taisho-period Western room of 9 square metres in Ise, with a fireplace set under a Japanese pantiled gable. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.

Timber bathhouse of 1926 in the castle town of Iga-Ueno, Mie, with a karahafu porch, an upstairs rest room and terracotta arches at the bath door; still in use.

Granite-post gate of 1926 at the Ichinoyu bathhouse in Iga-Ueno, Mie, with iron doors and fences, topped by a neon sign of the bathhouse name and hot-spring symbol.

A three-storey timber building of 1922 in central Iga-Ueno, Mie, once a warehouse and culture centre and now a café, with a granite-faced ground floor.

The Kawachi Photo Studio in Nabari, Mie, built in 1921 on a corner, has a triangular gable and turret ornaments; its first studio room was under a glass roof.

A 1916 timber village hall in Geino, Tsu, with weatherboarding, sash windows and a corner porch. Saved from demolition, repaired in 2017, open free at weekends.

A 1923 yakuimon gate of a Nabari restaurant inn, 2.6 meters wide, framed in knotty logs under a hip-and-gable tile roof. Visible from the road; grounds are private.

The 1923 core of a Nabari restaurant inn: two storeys, a gabled tile roof, kitchen and guest rooms below, tatami rooms upstairs behind a river-side wall of glass.

The 1923 bath and toilet block of a Nabari restaurant inn: a hipped and gabled tile roof, post-free corridors of log rafters, and an artificial stone basin.