Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A 15.1-meter tiled boundary wall on the south side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, badly damaged in the 1910 flood and rebuilt in its original form.
An early Meiji storage shed on the east side of the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, whose long posts lift the roof framing high over a boarded floor.
A 9.9 m² bath building of 1935 behind the Main House on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, glazed on many sides and split into a changing room and a bath.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Inari Shrine in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1882 household shrine of 5.1 square metres, built with earthen walls like a storehouse.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall in Isesaki, Gunma, is an early Showa udegimon gate on a lane, its 25-metre wall angled to form a forecourt.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Front Gate and Wall in Isesaki, Gunma, is a 1900 yakuimon gate with an openwork tiled ridge, flanked by white plaster board walls.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Main House in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1837 merchant home with L-shaped shoin rooms and silkworm vents, open in the Aikawa museum.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Former Store in Isesaki, Gunma, is a late Edo hardware shop, a low two-storey earthen-walled building on Nishimachi street.
The Former Aikawa Family Residence Storehouse in Isesaki, Gunma, is an 1844 hardware warehouse, a long earthen-walled building now used as a museum gallery.
Perched at Torii Pass 1,390 m above sea level, this is the surviving summit terminus of a short-lived cable railway that ran for barely a decade in the late 1950s and 1960s. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, the reinforced-concrete station and its stub-end platform now host a panoramic café and railway museum operated year-round by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.
A late Taisho brick sake store in Maebashi, Gunma, registered in 2016, the last brewery building in the city centre and now the Maebashi Renga-gura arts venue.
A Meiji two-storey brick storehouse in Maebashi, Gunma, registered in 2008, with English-bond brick and the details of a traditional earthen storehouse.
A small early Showa office faced in scratch tile, with rounded corners and circular windows, set between a brick weaving shed of 1919 and a house of 1931.
A 28-square-meter dye house of 1919 pressed against the back of the mill office. Four roof skylights, glazed wall openings, a king post truss. Registered in 2015.
Kiryu's only brick-walled sawtooth weaving shed, its ridge raised in December 1919 and registered in 1998. English-bond brick from Fukaya, four bays left of six.
A late-Edo headman's house in Naganohara, Gunma, which served as a rest house for daimyo on the Shinshu Kaido. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.
A brick gate of 1916 on the Kiryu campus of Gunma University, listed in 1998 for its design. Gothic canopies crown all four faces of each pier, with lamps above.
Built in 1930 and registered in 2006, the only surviving station of the Kusakaru Electric Railway keeps Hosei University's initial worked into its entrance transom.
A two-storey wooden village hall of 1958, registered in 2020 and open free as Takasaki's folk museum, with its clerical floor and assembly chamber little altered.
Four reinforced-concrete posts faced in Oya stone, built in 1928, mark the street front of the former Serada village office in Ota, Gunma. Registered in 2005.
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