Designed by Thomas Waters, it is the oldest Western-style building in the city.

But only 136 of these are so-called Western-style buildings from the modern era.

The wedding, last month, took place in a Western-style building that resembles a castle and towers over this town northeast of Tokyo.

The cathedral is one of about 70 Western-style buildings scattered around a wooded park near Inuyama.

The models are instructive because most of the Western-style buildings were destroyed by the 1923 earthquake.

Victor was a wonderful sight, a town of Western-style buildings perched incongruously in a high green valley of the most incredible beauty.

At the time the building was completed, the total floor space amounted to 1,815 m2, making it nearly comparable in size to the Western-style building.

In this group he and his colleagues searched the city to find and photograph early Western-style buildings.

Western-style buildings closed in on both sides of us, with windows chopped into tiny glass squares by strips of painted wood.

The home, built in 1863, is large and pleasant but would be unremarkable if it were not the oldest Western-style building in Japan.