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Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Former Maeda Family (Kindee) Residence Kamayakata
Tokyo 大正
Former Maeda Family (Kindee) Residence Kamayakata

On Tokyo's Niijima, this 8.4-square-metre Taisho outbuilding holds a stone cooking hearth and a bath, its walls and roof cut from island pumice. Registered 2024.

Former Mitsui Bunko Second Stacks
Tokyo 大正
Former Mitsui Bunko Second Stacks

The former Mitsui Bunko stacks of 1922 in a Shinagawa park, Tokyo, a concrete archive with double walls and floors on bookstack uprights, held Mitsui papers.

Friends Center (Religious Society of Friends, Japan Yearly Meeting)
Tokyo 大正
Friends Center (Religious Society of Friends, Japan Yearly Meeting)

The Friends Center in Mita, Tokyo, a missionary house of 1922 by the Vories office with dormers and a brick chimney, is one of few Western houses older than 1923.

Kounji Temple Priests' Quarters
Tokyo 大正
Kounji Temple Priests' Quarters

Kounji Temple Priests' Quarters in Nakano, Tokyo, is a 1919 kuri with a central corridor, guest and altar rooms and a sukiya-style hojo, registered in 2014.

Kounji Temple Main Gate
Tokyo 大正
Kounji Temple Main Gate

Kounji Temple Main Gate in Nakano, Tokyo, is a 3.2-meter koraimon gate built in 1914 of fine zelkova, with lattice doors and side walls, and was registered in 2014.

National Astronomical Observatory Main Gate
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Main Gate

Built in 1925, the National Astronomical Observatory Main Gate has four concrete posts faced in irregular stone, fluted capitals and a lamp over the central opening.

National Astronomical Observatory Gautier Meridian Circle Building
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Gautier Meridian Circle Building

Completed in 1924 at Mitaka in Tokyo, this half-round concrete room holds a French meridian circle of 1903 on a foundation isolated from the building itself.

National Astronomical Observatory First Meridian Mark Room
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory First Meridian Mark Room

Standing 100 metres south of the meridian circle at Mitaka in Tokyo, this 1925 concrete box of 7.3 square metres exists to hold a single reference mark.

National Astronomical Observatory First Equatorial Telescope Dome
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory First Equatorial Telescope Dome

Completed in 1921, the oldest observing building on the Mitaka campus holds a 20-centimetre Zeiss refractor on a weight-driven mounting under a hand-cranked dome.

National Astronomical Observatory Great Equatorial Telescope Dome
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Great Equatorial Telescope Dome

Built in 1926 and 19.5 metres tall, this Mitaka dome holds Japan's largest refractor at 65 centimetres and an observing floor that once rose and fell like a lift.

National Astronomical Observatory Second Meridian Mark Room
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Second Meridian Mark Room

Standing 100 metres north of the meridian circle at Mitaka in Tokyo, this 1925 concrete box of 7.2 square metres is the twin of the mark room to the south.

National Astronomical Observatory Guard House
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Guard House

Built in 1924, the National Astronomical Observatory Guard House is the only timber structure among the ten registered entries on the campus, with half-timbering.

National Astronomical Observatory Repsold Transit Instrument Building
Tokyo 大正
National Astronomical Observatory Repsold Transit Instrument Building

Built in 1925 at Mitaka in Tokyo, this small concrete room has a gable roof on rails that slides open, and now displays the 1880 Repsold transit instrument.

Jyoguji Temple Main Hall
Tokyo 大正
Jyoguji Temple Main Hall

The 1914 main hall of Jōgū-ji, a Pure Land temple in Hiroo, Tokyo, joined Japan's Tangible Cultural Property register in 2017. Its gabled front is the draw.

Joguji Temple Main Hall Reception Hall
Tokyo 大正
Joguji Temple Main Hall Reception Hall

Jogu-ji's reception annex in Hiroo, Tokyo, dates to around 1914. Registered in 2017, its plain rooms and comb-shaped transom show restrained Taisho temple design.

Space Oguraya Storehouse
Tokyo 大正
Space Oguraya Storehouse

Built in 1916 as a pawnshop vault, this Yanaka storehouse rises three storeys of clay-plaster construction on a span of just 3.6 metres. Registered in 2000.

Tamura Sake Brewery Stone Wall
Tokyo 大正
Tamura Sake Brewery Stone Wall

The Taisho-era stone wall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: 145 meters of waist-high river cobbles turning a right-angled corner along the Tamagawa Aqueduct.

Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 14 (Yasui Memorial Hall)
Tokyo 大正
Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 14 (Yasui Memorial Hall)

Built as the home of Yasui Tetsu, the university's first dean. At 111 sq m it is much the smallest of the seven registered buildings on this campus today.

Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 16 (Foreign Teachers' Residence)
Tokyo 大正
Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 16 (Foreign Teachers' Residence)

Home to the university's foreign teaching staff, four units above and shared rooms below. Horizontal eaves and carved capitals show Raymond under Wright.

Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 7 (West Block)
Tokyo 大正
Tokyo Woman's Christian University Building 7 (West Block)

Completed in 1924 among the earliest buildings on this campus: an E-shaped plan, a hall projecting behind the entrance, and a Wrightian central section.