Taishō

A tiny household Inari shrine of 1926 stands in a corner of the Tanuma Residence in Ashikaga, a nagare-zukuri shrine in a copper-roofed zelkova shelter. Private grounds.

The Old Rice Storehouse is the smallest Tsukada building in Tochigi, at 20 square metres. Built in Taisho times for grain, its tall interior completes the estate.

The Fine-Timber Storehouse is the largest Tsukada building in Tochigi, at 152 square metres. Built for prized timber, it alone of the five is listed as hard to recreate.

Three separate structures joined into one long range in 1916, this registered building in Tochigi City now serves as the museum's reception, shop and rest area.

Tsuriji Bridge of 1917 carries the path to Inaoka Kannon Hall in Ashikaga. Built wholly of local granite in four spans, it is the city's largest stone bridge.

A 1919 storehouse of exposed Ōya stone where the thread wholesaler Teraoka Itoten in Sano, Tochigi, kept raw thread, with iron doors and a truss roof. Listed 2019.

The red brick saran factory of Tochisen in Ashikaga, Tochigi, built 1913 to 1919, is a long gabled shed with a north wall lined by windows set in big stone frames.

The red brick print works of Tochisen in Ashikaga, Tochigi, built 1913 to 1919, spans 1,587 m² under six sawtooth roofs, with single stone lintels over its doors.

The brick boiler house of the Tochisen mill in Ashikaga, Tochigi, extended in 1941, keeps its Lancashire boilers and the black camouflage paint of the war years.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Kanrantei (Ryugu) is a 1921 two-storey pavilion above the hotel skating rink, with inner posts of naturally shaped timber and a corridor.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Tenbokaku is an open-sided 1921 pavilion on the edge of a bluff, with an exposed rafter ceiling, a nageshi beam and a corridor to Kanrantei.

A 1912 single-story house in Mibu, Tochigi, facing the Nikko Nishi Kaido, with cranes carved on its porch gable and openwork transoms. Registered in 2013; private.

This early Taisho gate in Ashikaga screens the office entrance on one side and doubles as the storehouse forecourt on the other, linking three registered buildings.

A 35-square-metre earthen-walled storehouse of the early Taisho era in Ashikaga, with a stone-faced base and clapboard on its two weather sides. Registered in 2005.

At the far edge of a garden in Tochigi City, this small Taisho annex wears a half-timbered face over rooms that stay Japanese beneath Western ceilings.

Steel bridge of 1914 over the upper Watarase at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 56 metres long, its girders carried on reused British wrought-iron trestles on stone bases.

Timber goods shed of 1912 on a stone platform at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, recalling the line's copper freight trains.

Red-brick store of 1914 for lamp oil at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, with corner pilasters and arched door and window.

Stone platform of 1912 at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, 109 metres long and still gravel-surfaced, the best preserved on the line.

Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi: one of the line's largest timber stations, opened in 1912 at the heart of the copper mine.