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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.

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.

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.

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.

An early Showa storehouse in Yurihonjo, Akita, sheltered with the middle storehouse inside one plain boarded shed that keeps driven snow off the earthen walls.

A 12-meter-diameter reinforced concrete circular water distribution works sitting at the apex of the Rokugo alluvial fan in Misato Town, Akita Prefecture. Completed in 1938, its 180 inner-cylinder orifices and outer partition plates have divided the Maruko River among ten communities for over 85 years — and it was designated as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in December 2024.

Tenshikan, located along the Meiji Centennial Road in Kosaka, Akita Prefecture, is a Western-style nursery school built in 1932 for the children of Kosaka Mine workers. Featuring German-style clapboard walls and a Renaissance-inspired entrance porch, it is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Free to visit, it stands alongside other heritage landmarks including the former Kosaka Mine Office and the Korakukan theater.

Dedicated in 1949, the Tohoku Bible Baptist Jumonji Church is the only surviving building in Akita Prefecture designed by the renowned Vories Architectural Office. This single-story wooden chapel features a gable roof with bell tower and a column-free worship space, and was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.