Taishō
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The main building of Fujitaya Ryokan in Yugawara, Kanagawa, built in 1923, sets two timber wings along the river, their rooms finished with delicate latticework.
This small brick shelter of 1915 caps the distribution well at Yokohama's Nishiya plant, mirroring its twin across the reservoir. Opened to visitors in July 2026.
Stone rather than timber, this 1919 gate at Kojokaku in Hachinohe curves its capping slab upward at both ends, quoting the profile of a Shinto shrine torii.
A 1916 earthen storehouse in Hirakawa, Aomori, with an arabesque plaster relief and hexagonal stonework. Registered in 2005, it stands among dozens of farm kura.
Sataki Dozo in Sannohe, Aomori, is a 1912 storehouse whose plasterer came from Morioka. Black plaster, white plaster and namako tile lattice divide its walls.
Sataki Bettei in Sannohe, Aomori, is a 1925 villa by the Horie-gumi, with an octagonal belvedere above a sukiya wing. Its original interior survives complete.
Sataki Honten in Sannohe, Aomori, rose in reinforced concrete after fire took the family shop in 1923. It was Aomori's first registered cultural property.
The Sataki gate and wall in Sannohe, Aomori, front the back-street entrance of the Sataki villa. Exposed-aggregate posts and a long wall answer the house behind.
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.
Abekawa Bridge in Shizuoka, a 491-metre steel truss bridge of 1923 on the old Route 1 and registered in 2023, is said to be Japan's longest bowstring truss bridge.
Kaikodo Murakamiya, a timber shop of 1926 before Mishima Taisha in Shizuoka, has a symmetrical front clad entirely in copper sheet laid in changing patterns.
The Former Igarashi Dental Clinic in Kanbara, Shizuoka, a Meiji townhouse given a Western front in about 1914, stands out on the old Tokaido with its glazed windows.
The 1919 bell tower at Otowasan Kiyomizudera in Shizuoka has bronze corner braces cast with lotus motifs. On New Year's Eve the first hundred people ring its bell.
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 retirement house of the Sagisaka family, miso and soy sauce makers in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, is a refined two-storey house of 1923.
The storehouse of the Sagisaka family in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, a three-storey plastered store of 1917, stands on a base of Izu stone.
Completed in 1915 to enshrine an Amida once owned by Emperor Kokaku, this earthen-walled hall in Shizuoka carries plaster-relief guardians by Morita Kakudo.