Taishō

Discover Honkan Kosekikan, a registered tangible cultural property in Ginzan Onsen. Experience authentic Japanese hospitality in this 1914 Art Deco-style inn featuring unique black inkstone and white Taisho-era baths, all-inclusive dining, and nostalgic Taisho romance atmosphere.

Discover Keishoden, the nationally registered treasure hall at Uesugi Shrine in Yonezawa, Yamagata. Designed by renowned architect Ito Chuta in 1923, this reinforced concrete hall houses over 1,000 artifacts including Important Cultural Properties—samurai armor, swords, and relics of Uesugi Kenshin, Naoe Kanetsugu, and Uesugi Yozan.

Discover the Uzen Kenren Corporation Scouring Building in Tsuruoka, Yamagata — a nationally registered tangible cultural property where Taishō-era silk scouring techniques continue to this day. Part of the Japan Heritage "Samurai Silk" story.

Completed in 1922 at Kaminoyama in Yamagata, this earthen-walled storehouse holds an altar room and a formal parlour downstairs, under heavy curved beams.

At just 9.2 square metres, this late-Taisho miso storehouse at Kaminoyama in Yamagata is the smallest of the five buildings registered on the site in 2022.

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2020, the Main House of the former Enman Orimono in Yonezawa has six high-ceilinged rooms and an exposed truss roof.

A rare early example of machine-woven wire gabion engineering in Japan, set along the wooded Kitazawa stream of the Shōbōji River in Tendō City, Yamagata. Built by the prefecture in the 1920s after the devastating flood of 1913, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005 and continues to function nearly a century on.

After the 1913 flood, this 2.4-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a small dam given a full secondary dam and revetment, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.2-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the dam with pentagonal crest stones, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 2.6-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the compact dam fitted to a narrow gorge, completed in 1923; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a braced dam with a curved south wing, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the dam that opened the second phase of works, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 1.5-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the lowest dam in the group, completed in 1926 and listed as a cultural property in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is the only dry-laid dam in the group, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

After the 1913 flood, this 3.0-metre stone check dam on the Shobojigawa is a dam with a stone apron and revetment, completed in 1926; registered in 2005.

The Nakazawagawa Higashiyama Dam in Obanazawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, is a Taisho-era gravity-type stone masonry sabo dam built around 1920 after a devastating 1913 flood. As part of Yamagata's first prefectural sabo project, this 12m-long, 2.4m-high dam was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2010. Located near the famous Ginzan Onsen, it offers a unique glimpse into Japan's pioneering disaster prevention engineering heritage.

Built in 1922 and registered in 2015, Uzen-Narita Station in Nagai City is a 99-square-metre wooden station house with geometric cutwork around its ticket window.

Nishi-Otsuka is the only Flower Nagai Line station left from its light railway days, pairing a 78-square-metre wooden building with a 104-metre stone platform.

Yamashiroya Kyukan in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a 1918 timber inn building registered in 2011. Glazed corridors wrap guest rooms that face the Zao mountains.

Yoshitei Kita-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a plastered storehouse of about 1919, registered in 2003. It packs three floors and a basement into 46 square metres.