Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A large 1908 earthen brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with cedar-boarded lower walls under white plaster, where the yeast starter and mash were made.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

Built in 1913 as a Bank of Japan deputy governor's villa and moved twice to Mt. Akagi, this refined house pairs tatami rooms with a Western parlour. Registered in 2025.

Built between 1883 and 1897 and spared by the great Omama fire of 1895, this timber merchant house in Midori City, Gunma, still trades as a soy sauce shop.

Raised in 1913 to keep a soy sauce brewer's account books safe from fire, this small plastered storehouse in Midori City, Gunma, was registered in 2013.

A 1905 fireproof storehouse in Shimonita, Gunma, the largest on the Ogino property, with kakegonuri doors and an exposed truss roof upstairs. Registered in 2009.

A c.1924 two-story house in Shimonita, Gunma, turning a gently curved hip-and-gable roof to the old highway, with a guest room upstairs. Registered in 2009.

An early-Showa fireproof storehouse at the west end of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, with a hipped roof and truss framing. Registered in 2009.

A c.1924 brick firewall 7.3 meters high against the main house of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, with a raised udatsu-like end. Registered 2009.

A late-Meiji fireproof shop in Shimonita, Gunma, with white lime plaster, a washed-mortar base, a front canopy and an elaborate ridge. Registered in 2009.

The oldest structure at the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma: an 1891 gable-entry fireproof storehouse with kakegonuri doors. Registered in 2009.

A late-Meiji storehouse and row house on the south edge of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, lining a lane with white plaster walls. Registered 2009.

A Taisho-era well house by the path to a headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a small tiled roof over a Yabuzuka stone well shaft topped with a granite curb.

An 1885 tool store in the corner of a headman's homestead in Ota, Gunma, with a separately framed okiyane roof, a covered forecourt and plastered fireproof doors.

A Taisho-era privy beside a headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a narrow tiled building on Yabuzuka stone footings with four tiny cubicles, the middle two toilets.

An 1873 headman's farmhouse in Ota, Gunma: a long two-storey gabled core with lean-tos, a formal shikidai entrance and a kebudashi roof vent for raising silkworms.