Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Akita

Located in Omori-machi, Yokote City, Akita Prefecture, the Akagawa Family Residence Storehouse is a Meiji-era traditional kura registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. This single building embodies the refined craftsmanship of snow-country storehouse architecture and preserves the historic landscape of rural Akita at the foot of sacred Mount Horowa, offering visitors a glimpse into the understated dignity of everyday Japanese heritage.

Northernmost of eight 1934 rice warehouses by the Omono River, Training Building No. 1 was a national grain store and now serves as an Akita University of Art studio.

Third in the Shinya row of 1934 gabled rice warehouses, Training Building No. 3 was remodeled as a craft-art and industrial-design studio after 1994.

Second in a row of eight 1934 rice warehouses on reclaimed Omono River land, Training Building No. 2 stored grain until 1990 and now serves Akita University of Art.

Seventh in the row, the Creative Workshop Hall wears storehouse-style walls and an insulating roof. Adapted with new windows, this 1934 warehouse keeps its old look.

Fifth in the row, the Gallery Hall spans its width with a braced Japanese truss at the center and Western trusses at the sides. Built 1934, it now holds exhibitions.

About 45 by 15 meters, this 1934 warehouse kept its east eave, once a rail platform for rice. Fourth in the Shinya row, it now hosts the crafts-experience programs.

Sixth in the row, the Community Exchange Hall joins the university's Open Center, its exhibition area and hall hosting public lectures inside a 1934 rice warehouse.

Discover the Akita City Araya Library Warehouse in Akita Prefecture—a beautifully preserved 1934 wooden rice granary registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Explore its unique Japanese-Western hybrid timber frame and the creative cultural district of Araya.

The Former Ogata Village Settler Preview Farmhouse in Akita Prefecture is a 1969 model home built for prospective settlers to preview their future housing on land reclaimed from Hachirōgata, once Japan's second-largest lake. As Ogata Village's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this iconic triangle-roofed building preserves the original landscape of the reclaimed land and the history of Japan's postwar agricultural modernization.

The Former Taikawasō is a Meiji-era wooden garden villa overlooking the Nishimonai River in Ugo Town, Akita Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, this elegant two-story building once hosted literary figures including haiku poet Kawahigashi Hekigotō. Now home to CAFE OHZAN's Forest Café, it blends historic charm with artisan confections in the heart of Bon dance country.

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.