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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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Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall
Hyogo 大正
Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall

The Kiyomizudera Temple Great Lecture Hall in Kato, rebuilt in 1917, is a seven-bay hall under a pyramidal tiled roof holding the image of pilgrimage stop 25.

Kiyomizudera Temple Bell Tower
Hyogo 大正
Kiyomizudera Temple Bell Tower

The Kiyomizudera Temple Bell Tower in Kato, dated 1919, is a tiled belfry on a flared skirt base, set on the stairs and hung with a bell designed by Takeda Goichi.

Kiyomizudera Temple Konpon Chudo
Hyogo 大正
Kiyomizudera Temple Konpon Chudo

The Kiyomizudera Temple Konpon Chudo, rebuilt in 1917 on Mount Mitake in Kato, is a five-bay hall with a karahafu porch that keeps a hidden Eleven-Headed Kannon.

Former Sapporo Court of Appeals Building
Hokkaido 大正
Former Sapporo Court of Appeals Building

This 1926 former court of appeals is the largest surviving public building of Sapporo soft stone. An Important Cultural Property, it now houses a free city museum.

Hakodate Orthodox Church of the Resurrection
Hokkaido 大正
Hakodate Orthodox Church of the Resurrection

Completed in 1916 and designated in 1983, this brick church in Motomachi, Hakodate carries six cupolas and a bell tower ranked among Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

Former Futaba Kindergarten Building
Hokkaido 大正
Former Futaba Kindergarten Building

This 1922 timber kindergarten in Obihiro, Hokkaido, sets an octagonal domed playroom at the centre of a square plan. An Important Cultural Property since 2017.

Iai Gakuin (Former Iai Girls' School) Shaonkan
Hokkaido 大正
Iai Gakuin (Former Iai Girls' School) Shaonkan

Shaonkan, a 1922 wooden annex at Iai Gakuin in Hakodate, was registered in 2005. Its over-burnt brick plinth and banded sliding windows echo the main hall beside it.

Endo Family Residence Front Gate
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence Front Gate

The front gate of about 1919 to the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: a 2.5 m single-bay yakuimon with a gently swelling pantile roof and wicket doors at its sides.

Endo Family Residence North Stone Storehouse
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence North Stone Storehouse

A long Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built into the boundary wall, with a banded eave and round-cornered windows.

Endo Family Residence Storehouse
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence Storehouse

A 2-storey brick storehouse of about 1919 joined to the Endo main house in Susukino, Sapporo, with dark English-bond brick, broken pediments and a dentilled cornice.

Endo Family Residence Main House
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence Main House

A timber merchant's house of about 1919 in Sapporo's Susukino, with a Western parlour, staggered tatami suites and a brick north wall that doubles as the boundary.

Endo Family Residence Wall
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence Wall

The 161 m wall of about 1919 enclosing the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: rock-faced soft stone on three sides, brick on the north, with geometric capitals.

Endo Family Residence South Stone Storehouse
Hokkaido 大正
Endo Family Residence South Stone Storehouse

A tiny Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built against the boundary wall, with stone brackets and a root-cellar basement.

Kamikawa Warehouse Office
Hokkaido 大正
Kamikawa Warehouse Office

A 2-storey timber office of 1913 at the front of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa: weatherboarding, a brick chimney and a pedimented gable with an arched window.

Kamikawa Warehouse No. 11 (Daisetsu Craft Beer Hall)
Hokkaido 大正
Kamikawa Warehouse No. 11 (Daisetsu Craft Beer Hall)

The largest and last of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa, built in 1913 at the centre of the block with pediments on both gables; now the Daisetsu Ji Beer Hall.

Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Yard Tracks
Hokkaido 大正
Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Yard Tracks

The yard tracks of Tomiuchi Station on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, laid in 1923, run 380 metres as double track on rails from three countries.

Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Building
Hokkaido 大正
Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Building

Tomiuchi Station Building on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, is a 1923 timber station house with a points-lever cabin beside its ticket barrier.

Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Platform
Hokkaido 大正
Former JNR Tomiuchi Line Tomiuchi Station Platform

The stone platform of Tomiuchi Station on the Former JNR Tomiuchi Line in Mukawa, Hokkaido, built in 1923, runs about 75 metres behind the station building.

Former Nakamura Heihachiro Family Residence, Main Building
Hokkaido 大正
Former Nakamura Heihachiro Family Residence, Main Building

A Taisho house in Hobetsu, Mukawa, built by an oil prospector turned farmer from timber off his own land, dismantled in 2003 and rebuilt beside the town museum.

Former Hokuriku Bank Ebetsu Branch
Hokkaido 大正
Former Hokuriku Bank Ebetsu Branch

Built in 1919 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, this 57-square-metre stone building housed the town's first bank until 1966. Registered as a cultural property in February 2002.