Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Akita

The main building of the Towada Hotel, built in 1938 above Lake Towada in Kosaka, Akita, is a three-storey timber hotel clad in Akita cedar, a fine large building.

Built in 1938, last of a row of warehouses, keeping a number with nothing left to count. A king post truss inside, washed granite on the signboard gable.

The only Naba Kamiten building with a firm date, 1897, and the largest storehouse at 157 square metres. Black plaster outside, a boat bracket at the ridge.

Rebuilt after Akita's 1886 Tawaraya Fire and registered in 2014, this 463-square-metre townhouse still trades as a washi paper shop. Low Edo roof, exposed beams.

An earthen archive storehouse of 106 square metres, its roof run into the main house so the two read as one. Middle Meiji fabric, moved here in 1908. Closed.

At 70 square metres, the smallest of the five registered buildings, standing alone across the street. Once the internal storehouse of a house that no longer stands.

The council chamber of Noshiro, Akita, a timber hall of 1950 beside the city office, has a geometric front, close-set wide windows and a queen-post truss roof.

The first building of Noshiro City Hall in Akita, a concrete office of 1949, shows its rigid frame plainly on a 51-metre front, a fine postwar city hall.

Hachimorien in Yajima, Yurihonjo, Akita, a house of about 1877 in the old samurai quarter, has a curved entrance gable and a rear wing finished in fine woods.

The Koji-gura in Masuda is an early-Meiji earthen storehouse, still used as Hinomaru Jozo's koji room for culturing rice. Its interior is closed to visitors.

The Chuo-gura is the largest building at Hinomaru Jozo in Masuda, an early-Meiji earthen storehouse about 24 metres long, still used for storage. It is closed.

The Hinomaru Jozo shop faces the old highway in Masuda, its gable end showing tiered beams in the local townhouse style. A sales counter runs on site.

The Nishi-gura stands across the highway from the Hinomaru Jozo shop in Masuda. A ridge tablet dates it to 1919 and names its carpenter. Its interior is closed.

The Higashi-ato-gura in Masuda is the Taisho half of a paired storehouse at Hinomaru Jozo, built with a king-post truss unlike its older Meiji twin. It is closed.

The Higashi-mae-gura in Masuda is the older half of a paired storehouse at Hinomaru Jozo, its stacked-beam roof keeping the look of early-Meiji work. It is closed.

The Bunko-gura at Hinomaru Jozo in Masuda is a 1908 earthen storehouse in black plaster, its interior lined with lacquered cypress columns. It alone is open to visitors.

The Minami-gura is the smallest registered building at Hinomaru Jozo in Masuda, an early-Meiji storehouse about 11 metres long, still used to store rice. It is closed.

L-shaped residential wing at the back of a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, with a formal alcove room; alone of seven registered as a model of design.

Low, steady earthen storehouse built in 1935 at the back of a kimono merchant's estate in Yuzawa, Akita, turned north-south with doors on two sides. Registered 2007.

Small early Showa concrete garage beside a kimono merchant's townhouse on the old Ushu Kaido in Yuzawa, Akita, with spiral brackets under its hood. Registered 2007.