Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Edo storehouse moved out of Saga Castle to Honjo-machi, Saga City. Its board-clad base, lime-plastered walls and curved eave soffit survive; registered 2022.

Joranjuku Guest House (Ganshokaku) in Takeo, Saga: a wooden guest house of c.1943 attributed to Endo Arata, with a Western room, Japanese rooms and Mifune murals.

Joranjuku School Building and Dormitory in Takeo, Saga: an L-shaped wooden classroom wing and dormitory meeting at Wright-style tuff piers, attributed to Endo Arata.

A torii 3.7 metres high, fired from porcelain in Arita in 1888 under a cobalt arabesque. Why it is registered rather than designated, and why a railway crosses it.

Ichi-no-kura of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, is a late-Edo storehouse of 89 square metres whose rear once met the tidal Shiota River directly.

San-no-kura of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, served as bank premises from 1910 to 1916, and its brick street wall dates from that conversion.

The Main House of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, is a late-Edo three-storey igura townhouse of 258 square metres, registered in September 1998.

Built in 1891 at Takeo in Saga, this registered property joins a former clinic and a drug works under one tiled roof. An arched porch marks the doctor's front door.

This 15-metre gatehouse of 1891 screens a Saga doctor's compound. Its raised centre gave a rider clearance to pass beneath on horseback with his hat still on.

Kanotei in Seikei Park, Taku, Saga: a 1924 wooden public hall given by coal baron Takatori Koreyoshi, with three 16-mat rooms under a broad hip-and-gable roof.

Takeya in Karatsu, Saga, is a wooden three-storey restaurant of 1923, registered in 1998. Guest rooms fill the upper floors, and the eel is grilled without steaming.

The Nakashima Sake Brewery Koji Room in Kashima, Saga: a 37-square-metre Meiji chamber for growing koji, brick at its base, its door facing the brewing hall.

Behind the Nakashima Sake Brewery shop in Kashima, Saga: a mid-Meiji fermentation hall made of two storehouses joined into one room, with brick chimneys at each end.

The 1885 Nakashima Sake Brewery Main House in Kashima, Saga: a plastered, gable-fronted sake shop with a timber lattice, white shutter boxes and a tasting counter.

Across the old Tara road from its shop, the Nakashima Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: three joined Meiji storehouses, its south doorway facing the street.

The late-Meiji Nakashima Sake Brewery West Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: a square, 2-storey plastered sake store with a brick-faced west wall, seen from the river.

The Nakano Family Residence Stone Wall in Tara, Saga: 97 metres of cut stone laid in two courses around 1909, running from the gateposts along frontage and garden.

The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Upper Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a brick cistern 6 metres deep in a hillside bank, the main store of spring water.

The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Lower Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a small, well-kept brick cistern in a hillside bank, repeating the upper intake's design.

The 1909 Nakano Family Residence Main House in Tara, Saga: three wings, a carved formal entrance and a waist-high alcove for chair seating, where Nakano Maki taught.