Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel. Its two guest rooms take the linked-room shoin form, with wide verandas and private baths, notable for quality and scale.

An early-Showa covered walkway to the main building at Hanaya Hotel. Some 22 metres long under a gabled copper roof, log posts and curved beams form a sukiya-style link.

The 1918 main building at Hanaya Hotel, near the centre of the grounds. Both floors hold eight-mat guest rooms with anterooms and wide verandas, built with fine joinery.

An early-Showa covered walkway from the office wing to the large bath at Hanaya Hotel. About 18 metres long, open at the sides, bark-edged posts make a sukiya passage.

A guest wing of about 1950, south of the central hall at Hanaya Hotel. Its three rooms use prized timber, including black persimmon in the thresholds, around the alcoves.

Fujiya Ryokan, located on the Zenkoji Temple approach in Nagano City, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property originally established as an official feudal lord's inn during the Edo period and rebuilt in 1925 as a striking blend of Art Deco exterior and traditional sukiya-style interior. This iconic landmark now operates as THE FUJIYA GOHONJIN restaurant and wedding venue.

The Bridal Somebana Mimura Shop, located along the former Kōshū Kaidō highway in Suwa City, Nagano Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1929. A fine example of kanban kenchiku (signboard architecture) featuring geometric ornamentation on its Western-style façade, it forms a distinctive streetscape together with the adjacent Mimura Jewelry Store.

The Furuta Akira Memorial Museum Exhibition Room in Kitaono, Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture, is a literary museum housed in a converted traditional storehouse from the birthplace of Furuta Akira, founder of the renowned publishing house Chikuma Shobō. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2009, the museum displays approximately 90 literary artifacts, including a hanging scroll by Dazai Osamu and letters from Kawabata Yasunari. The building itself is an architectural gem featuring distinctive namako-kabe plaster walls, open second-floor tatami rooms, and an elegant sukiya-style connecting corridor.

Three chambers and a cylinder of concrete by the Naraigawa: where spring water entered Matsumoto's first waterworks in 1922, an arrangement not easily reproduced.

A forty-square-metre timber shed of 1922 with a king-post truss, standing among concrete and Art Deco neighbours. It still stores the paperwork it was built for.

Buried under grass at Joyama, a vaulted concrete reservoir of 1,518 square metres held Matsumoto's drinking water and let gravity carry it down to the city below.

A concrete tank 3.34 metres across, wrapped in a patterned brick drum with the city waterworks emblem above its door. Pumping ended here in 1923; gravity took over.

Located at the northern edge of Narai-juku post town in Shiojiri City, Nagano Prefecture, the Maruyama Shikkiten Oya Stone Storehouse is a three-story building constructed in 1961 using Oya stone from Tochigi Prefecture. Inspired by stone buildings seen near Utsunomiya, Kiso lacquerware merchants built it as a lacquer workshop, but dust and condensation issues made it impractical. As the sole surviving example of its kind, it is registered as a national tangible cultural property.

Discover Minami Uchida Community Hall in Shiojiri, Nagano — the oldest surviving postwar community hall in the prefecture. Built in 1947 through dedicated community effort, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property features a striking irimoya-zukuri wooden design using centuries-old timber from a local shrine.

West of the Miharaya shop, the 1872 North Storehouse dresses its street gable in namako-kabe and sets its windows high, so two floors read as three from the road.

West of Zenkoji temple, the 1872 Miharaya shop sets an open storefront beside a namako-kabe warehouse. This miso and soy-sauce brewer, founded in 1848, still works here.

South of the shop, the 1877 Middle Storehouse lifts a hipped third storey above a two-storey earthen body, anchoring the alley view along Uchiwaya-koji.

West of the South Storehouse, the 1877 West Storehouse is a two-storey gabled earthen store for miso, linked on its upper floor to the South Storehouse next door.

Adjoining the Middle Storehouse, the 1877 East Storehouse is the largest of the group: a long soy-sauce brewing warehouse with shuttered windows on its south gable.

On the southern edge of the grounds, the 1877 South Storehouse is a low earthen store whose eastern half held the koji room where the brewery's fermentation once began.