Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Akita

A small Meiji-era earthen storehouse in Masuda, Akita, with a three-step kakego-nuri fire door hung off-centre. Registered in 2009 for its place in the townscape.

Built in 1908, the north rice storehouse is the largest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, its roof laid continuous with the south store.

Built in 1881 as a resting place for Emperor Meiji's tour of the Ōu region, the Kitano rest house was later moved to the Nara estate, a belvedere rising from its roof.

Built in 1890, the zashiki storehouse at the former Nara estate carries an eight-mat reception room upstairs, serving both storage and hospitality at once.

Built in 1895 and joined to the main house until a 1966 restoration severed it, this wooden wing of the Nara estate holds a four-mat tea room on its upper floor.

Built in 1924, the document storehouse is the newest of the former Nara estate's seven annexes, its mortar walls and iron doors made to guard the family's records.

Raised in 1874, the miso storehouse is the oldest of the former Nara estate's seven registered annexes, with a copper maneki roof and curved rising beams above.

Built in 1893, the south rice storehouse shares a continuous roof with the north store, the earlier of the paired buildings that held the Nara family's rice.

Built in 1900 for one of Akita's three great landlord families, this registered house answers deep snow with a wide earth-floored passage lit from high windows.

Completed in 1869 and wrapped inside an outer sheath building, this 16.4-metre storehouse is an uchigura, the interior storehouse form of southern Akita.

A 1921 storehouse rendered in washed mortar and scored to imitate stone, with a light roof placed above its earthen one and curved brackets beneath the windows.

Completed in 1928 beside the main house, this compact wing sets two Western rooms and two Japanese rooms across a central corridor, behind ochre roughcast walls.

A vast thatched Soto Zen hall at Yashima in Yurihonjo, rebuilt in 1880 after fire took the temple in the Boshin War. A ridge tag names carpenter Sasaki Mitsunobu.

The North Fermentation Storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, Akita's last working brewery, is an early Showa earthen vault whose decorated doors echo its older neighbours.

The Workshop at Kunibanzai Shuzo, Araya, Akita, is a late-Meiji L-shaped timber hall linking the brewing rooms and main house: kettles south, pressing north.

Built in 1915, the Main House of Kunibanzai Shuzo faces the old coastal highway by the Omono River, its counting room and parlour along a through earthen passage.

Built in 1908 and eighteen ken long, this is the oldest and longest fermentation storehouse at Kunibanzai Shuzo, its entrance a showcase of layered lime plasterwork.

The smallest building at Kunibanzai Shuzo, this early-Showa koji room grows the mould that starts each batch of sake, its plaster walls capped by English-bond brick.

This 1908 storehouse behind the Main House, the only two-storey vault at Kunibanzai Shuzo, began as a document store and now cultivates the brewery's yeast starter.

Discover the Konishi Family Residence Zashiki-gura, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yokote, Akita. This 1922 earthen storehouse showcases exceptional Taisho-era craftsmanship with black lacquer doors and a powerful timber interior.