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Training Building No. 1 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the northern end of eight 1934 rice warehouses that stored state rice until 1990, now an art school.
Training Building No. 3 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the third of eight 1934 rice warehouses standing eave to eave, handed to the city in 1994 for a college.
Training Building No. 2 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the second of eight 1934 rice warehouses built on reclaimed land by the Omono River, now an art school.
The Creative Studio Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the seventh of eight 1934 rice warehouses, styled like a storehouse with an insulating double roof.
The Gallery Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the fifth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, roofed with a hybrid of Japanese framing and Western Howe trusses.
The Craft Experience Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the fourth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, each 45 metres long, with a rail platform canopy east.
The Community Exchange Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the sixth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, refitted as a college centre for public classes and talks.
The Araya Library Warehouse Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the southern end of eight 1934 rice warehouses and now holds library shelves open to all.
A working sake brewery building at Yokote in Akita, registered in 2011. A mud-walled ginjo house, and a stone moto room in Innai tuff, still brewing Amanoto.
A 1953 timber gym in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. White posts climb its gray east gable, a ridge tablet names its builders, and it is now a toy playground.
A 1953 wooden classroom wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. Its 62.78 m corridor runs from library to music room and now leads to wooden toy play rooms.
A 1953 wooden school office wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. It held the principal's office and a guest entrance, and is now a free zone with a café.
A 1954 wooden classroom wing in Yurihonjo, Akita, registered in 2012. Last of the four to be built, it keeps a tatami etiquette room and two old classrooms.
This 1969 model farmhouse in Ogata Village, Akita, was built for prospective settlers of the Hachirogata reclaimed land; its big triangular roof marks the landscape.
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.
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 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.
An early Showa workshop in Yurihonjo, Akita, where a timber truss roof clears a tall column-free room for the cauldron and tub that steam the brewing rice.
An earthen storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, converted into the brewery's office in the early Showa era and roofed, uniquely on this site, in sheet iron.
The largest of the eleven registered buildings in Yurihonjo, Akita, this early Showa storehouse lies along the slope, its ridge north to south, holding sake tanks.