Meiji Mura Brings Early Modern Japan to Today

The Rokumeikan, demolished in 1940, and architect Taniguchi Yoshirō.

The first guests enter the park at the Meiji Mura opening ceremony.

Meiji-era architecture scattered across 100 hectares of rolling landscape in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture.

The central entryway of the Imperial Hotel, built 1923 in Hibiya, Tokyo.

A view of the Imperial Hotel Main Lobby.

The residence where Mori Ōgai and Natsume Sōseki lived, built in 1887 in Tokyo.

The Mie Prefectural Government building was built in Tsu, Mie Prefecture, in 1879.

The Higashi-Yamanashi District Office was relocated from Yamanashi, Yamanashi Prefecture.

The Saigō Tsugumichi Mansion, built 1880 in what is now Meguro, Tokyo. Tsugumichi was the older brother of Saigō Takamori , a famous leader of the Meiji Restoration.

The dining room in the Saigō mansion.

The Tōmatsu Family Residence reached its current state in 1901, after multiple rounds of renovation.

The atrium of the Tōmatsu Family Residence, extending up to the third floor.

At left is a balloon-back chair in a style popular in nineteenth-century Britain, decorated with Japanese decorative cherry blossom makie lacquer patterns, from the Saigō Tsugumichi Mansion; at right is a peacock chair designed by Frank Lloyd Wright on display in the lobby of the Imperial Hotel.

Ring spinner made by the British company Platt Brothers.

Photographs documenting relief efforts by the Japanese Red Cross Society after the Nōbi earthquake of 1891.

The 1890 American organ still produces music today.

A British Sharp Stewart Steam Locomotive that once ran between Shinbashi and Yokohama.