Taishō

Early Taisho storehouse of Oya stone at a former headman's estate in Noda, Chiba: central door, gable windows, two-tier eave band. Registered 2019; private home.

The Odaka Memorial Hall in Tateyama, Chiba, a Taisho-era bank building moved near the port about 1930, has sash windows and a corner entrance and is now a cafe.

In Chōshi, the former Kōsei Kaikan is a 1926 concrete hall a soy-sauce magnate built for adult education, with a Secession entrance and a cantilevered film booth.

A 1917 two-storey earthen storehouse beside a merchant shop on a Sakura corner: artificial-stone skirting, white lime plaster above, linked upstairs to the house.

Kominato Railway's Ama-Ariki Station, built around 1925: a hipped-roof timber depot whose front and rear lean-tos are trimmed with bargeboards. What to look for.

Kominato Railway's Umatate Station, built around 1925, keeps its original interior: board wainscot, ceiling, ticket window and parcels hatch. What to see.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Ushiku Station, built around 1925 and enlarged as traffic grew, its additions clad to match. Now the end of the section still in service.

A goods shed of around 1925 at Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, its log posts set back from the track to leave room for loading on the platform.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, built around 1925, keeps its ceiling, diagonal-jointed floor and ticket window. Registered as a model of good design.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Yamada Station, built around 1925: a 9-by-4.5-meter timber core smaller than any standard state-railway station of its day. Still in use.

A thermal power-station building of around 1925 at Kazusa Tsurumai, where the Kominato Railway generated power for its station and nearby homes. How to view it.

A timber engine shed and smithy built around 1925 at Goi, where the Kominato Railway begins. Two tracks run into the 20-meter shed, its machinery still intact.

Kominato Railway's Satomi Station, end of the line in 1925, keeps its original interior and exterior and lacks the signal-office bay of state-railway stations.

A three-span steel bridge of around 1925 on the Kominato Railway, its 20-foot plate girders built to a 1919 state-railway standard. Where and how to see it.

Kominato Railway's six-span steel bridge over the Yoro River, built around 1925, mixes 19-meter and 13-meter girders to suit the channel. Where to see it.

A two-span bridge of around 1925 on the Kominato Railway, carried on 15-foot rolled I-beams rated among Japan's largest of the Taisho era. How it differs.

Kominato Railway's four-span bridge over the Yoro River, built around 1925 on girders stamped by Yokogawa Bridge Works in 1924, resting on oval concrete piers.

Kominato Railway's Takataki Station, built around 1925: posts set twice as far apart on the track side as at the entrance so passengers could pass freely.

A 77-meter concrete platform of around 1926 at Kominato Railway's Tsukizaki Station, edged with concrete blocks and just 61 centimeters above the rails.

Kominato Railway's Tsukizaki Station of around 1926: a gabled timber building with a front porch and a 76-meter concrete platform, registered as a model of design.