Additionally, an office of gun (county) in the modern period of Japan (the Meiji and Taisho periods), formed by Gun-ku-cho-son Henseiho (Act for the alignment of local government system) enacted in 1878, was called gunyakusho.
なお、1878年の郡区町村編制法によって編制された近代（明治・大正期）の郡の役所は郡役所と称する。