Taishō

A Taisho-era timber wing at Hanaya Hotel, extended in 1949. The kitchen sits below, and a coffered banquet hall framed by corridors and alcoves sits above.

A 1918 detached wing by the bathhouse at Hanaya Hotel. Two guest rooms sit side by side, each an eight-mat room with an anteroom and a private bath, open to the garden.

A timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel. Its two guest rooms take the linked-room shoin form, with wide verandas and private baths, notable for quality and scale.

The 1918 main building at Hanaya Hotel, near the centre of the grounds. Both floors hold eight-mat guest rooms with anterooms and wide verandas, built with fine joinery.

A one-room guest parlor of 1916 in Obuse, Nagano, linked to the main house by a covered passage, with an alcove, a sunken hearth and a boat-hull ceiling in 18 m2.

The Fujiya Ryokan in Nagano, built in 1924 by the family that ran the Zenkoji post town's official inn, is a timber building with a Western tiled front.

The Masuya Ryokan New Wing is an early Taisho three-storey guest block in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, whose tiered eaves help complete the inn's eastern face.

The Masuya Ryokan West Wing is a small late Taisho three-storey wing on a street corner in Tazawa Onsen, Nagano, joined to the Main Building and registered in 2005.

Three chambers and a cylinder of concrete by the Naraigawa: where spring water entered Matsumoto's first waterworks in 1922, an arrangement not easily reproduced.

A forty-square-metre timber shed of 1922 with a king-post truss, standing among concrete and Art Deco neighbours. It still stores the paperwork it was built for.

Buried under grass at Joyama, a vaulted concrete reservoir of 1,518 square metres held Matsumoto's drinking water and let gravity carry it down to the city below.

A concrete tank 3.34 metres across, wrapped in a patterned brick drum with the city waterworks emblem above its door. Pumping ended here in 1923; gravity took over.

Marutakagura Kajikazawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a gabled dozo storehouse said to have come from a Fuji River wharf town in 1915. It was listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Kissawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a 710-square-metre dozo storehouse said to have been a Yamanashi spinning mill before its move in 1915. Listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Tenpo in Suwa, Nagano, is a honmune-zukuri farmhouse said to have been moved from Kiso Yabuhara in 1918. Registered in 2011; viewable from the street.

The c.1920 back gate of the Miyazawa estate in Azumino: a kabukimon with a small roof on its crossbeam, inward-opening doors and sleeve walls, once used by horses.

A late Taisho townhouse in Matsushiro, Nagano City, its upper floor sealed in white plaster, an early case in the town, with framed shutter boxes. Registered 2005.

A c.1920 outbuilding in Misato, Azumino: a former chicken coop and barn along a boundary channel, built with exposed posts and boards so it reads as a roofed wall.

Stone gateposts of three granite courses topped with balls, and 90 meters of stone and roofed walls around a Miyazawa estate in Azumino, c.1920 and c.1936.

Muryoji Temple Storehouse, Matsumoto: a windowless early Taisho-era storehouse plastered up to the rafters, with namako skirting and a tall diagonal stone base.