Meiji
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Built in 1898, Japan's only surviving Japanese-style prefectural assembly hall hides a Western truss above its plaster-walled chamber. Restored at Negoro, Iwade.
The guest wing of the Izumi family house in Hirogawa, Wakayama, built in 1904 by the eighth head of the family, has high-ceilinged rooms finished with delicate care.
Ichiki Ryokan Old Building is a late Meiji two-storey guest wing moved to this Kainan inn in 1937, with a four-room banquet suite and showy sukiya timberwork.
At the western edge of the Ueda estate in Hashimoto, Wakayama, this late-Meiji detached parlour holds three eight-mat guest rooms, raised on walls of Kishu blue stone.
An early Meiji sake brewing warehouse behind the Oe main house in Minabe, Wakayama. Nine bays by five, earthen walls, and the town's last brewery. Registered 2014.
The main house of the Oka family in Kudoyama, Wakayama, built in 1871, is a farmhouse with an attic storey, a formal entrance and a ridge vent tied to family luck.
The Heya Annex of the Oka family home in Kudoyama, Wakayama, is a late Meiji guest wing of two 8-mat rooms with verandas and a finely made alcove display.
The gatehouse of the Oka family in Kudoyama, Wakayama, built in 1871 with the main house, is a long nagaya-mon holding a barn, a servants' room and a cattle stall.
The barn of the Okazaki Family Residence in Takata, Shingu, a late Meiji building, keeps a cowshed and lofts inside and a workspace under deep eaves on the east.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Koniwadani River Aqueduct is a 1909 brick arch carrying the canal over a stream in Katsuragi, Wakayama, among its earliest rebuilt parts.
The Odai Irrigation Canal Nakatani River Water Gate is a 1912 brick siphon taking the canal under the Nakatani River in Katsuragi, Wakayama, registered in 2006.
The Former Katsuragikan Inn by Koyaguchi Station in Hashimoto, Wakayama, is a late Meiji timber inn of three full storeys with copper pent roofs at every floor.
The former Kanda family villa, Tosontei, in Kushimoto, Wakayama, is a merchant villa of 1874 finished in cedar said to come from a huge tree washed up on the shore.
A mid-Meiji tsushi two-story house on the old Koya Kaido in Hashimoto, Wakayama, its black plaster walls sealed over the rafters and framed by two curved pilasters.
An early Meiji two-story storehouse on a Hashimoto estate in Wakayama, gabled with its entrance in the north end: a framed opening closed by one heavy sliding door.
An early Meiji guest wing behind the main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with three tatami rooms set in an L and a roof ending hip-and-gable, hipped and gabled.
An early-Meiji storehouse on the northwest corner of the Sakabe estate in Fuchu, Wakayama City: white plaster, a vertical-board base and a tiled okiyane gable roof.
Built in the early Meiji period and moved from Inami in early Shōwa, the Sasano Family Residence Detached Room in Gobo has a 10-mat room with hemlock posts.
Jokiin Kyakuden on Koyasan is an early Meiji guest hall of 361 square metres, keeping an Edo-period plan with a raised dais room. Registered 13 March 2025.
Jokiin Haiden on Koyasan, a hall of about 1910 moved from another temple to face a war memorial tower, carries curved gables front and rear. Registered 2025.