Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Taisho-era Nakano Family Residence Water Tank in Tara, Saga: a small two-level brick tank that stored spring water and fed it by pressure to the estate.

The Nakano Family Residence Gateposts in Tara, Saga: two tuff pillars of about 1909, 3.1 metres high, with chamfered corners and moulded coping stones.

The Lutheran church of 1938 in Ogi, Saga, a small gabled timber church by the Vories office, is loved for the sanctuary that curves out from its rear gable wall.

Nonaka Usaien in Saga, a medicine merchant said to date from 1626, keeps a shop of 1796 whose great gable and hanging sign recall the old Nagasaki Road.

A plain but solid late Meiji storehouse on the north edge of the Maeda estate in Imari, built as a back-yard store, with part of its lean-to set aside for tools.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse of 291 square meters in Imari, built for grand village headmen, with a hooked kudo-zukuri ridge and a raised reception room.

A long late Edo mill building on the street side of the Maeda estate in Imari, altered in Meiji, whose two-story south end holds a gateway to the back yard.

A small late Meiji timber shed of 30 square meters on the Maeda estate in Imari, built for firewood beside the North Storehouse; its interior was later converted.

The largest storehouse of the Maeda estate in Imari, a late Meiji kura of 139 square meters facing the street beside the thatched main house, with a broad work area.

A late Edo earthen storehouse in Imari opening off the raised room of the Maeda main house: a zashiki-gura with one door to the house and two to the yard.

Former pawnshop and house of 1925 in Karatsu, Saga, its upper pledge store sealed in mortar with copper-clad fittings against fire and theft; now a café.

Villa of 1938 on the shore of Karatsu Bay, Saga, with crossing hip-and-gable roofs and a mezzanine room facing the sea; now a guest room of the Mizuno Ryokan.

A 1904 single-storey rice mill at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, now the Tatsumi no Kura gallery, with a raised roof vent and an open timber roof frame inside.

An early Showa brick and timber koji room at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, the newest of seven listed buildings, with an anteroom and mortar-lined walls.

A 1904 two-storey brewer's house in Kashima, Saga, turning a hip-and-gable end to the old Tara road, with a tiled canopy, bay window and white plaster upper floor.

The largest of seven listed buildings at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga: a 1906 storehouse 14 ken long, extended after 1945, with an iron-clad south gable.

A 1921 iron-clad storehouse on the west edge of Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, sharing a wall with its neighbor; its store wing once housed brewers.

A Taisho-era guest wing of about 1921 behind the main house at Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, stacking 15-mat reception rooms on 2 floors behind board walls.

A 1916 earthen storehouse at the center of Yano Sake Brewery in Kashima, Saga, built for brewing and now holding finished sake, with inspection rooms by its door.

Concrete girder bridge of 1930 in Tokorozawa, Saitama, on the road to Japan's first airfield, with white-tiled arched railings and restored bronze lamps.