ArchitectureI am looking for traditional Japanese style Meiji era Civic buildings like...

I am looking for traditional Japanese style Meiji era Civic buildings like railway stations, museums, theatres, government buildings or public baths.

To be specific I don't want buildings with Classical style walls and Japanese style roofs – they must be Japanese only eclecticism.

I am interested in how architects in Japan during the industrial revolution may have adopted architecture previously reserved for temples and the upper class and used it in public buildings, but it is difficult to find examples, existent or demolished!

Pictured are the interior of Taisha Station and the exterior of Dogo Onsen Honkan

European equivalents would be, for example, Neo-Gothic or Scots Baronial, the seed of which was used for churches or fortified homes but were later applied to large scale town halls and railway stations.

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