Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1933 garden pavilion by a pond in Ogawa, Saitama, registered in 2004. Its eight-mat tea room juts over the water under a boat-bottom ceiling, railed on two sides.

A large farmhouse of about 1859 in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City, registered in 2017. Lattice doors ring its altar room, said to be fitted against late-Edo riots.

Begun in 1858 for a raw silk broker, this Ogose merchant house keeps its shop room and through-passage. Blade marks from the 1866 Bushu uprising survive inside.

Kami Bridge in Honjo, Saitama: a 1926 concrete bridge only 6.3 m long, built for the Isesaki road, with tiled arched parapets and pedimented end posts.

Built in 1928 as a Bushu Bank branch to designs by Maeda Kenjiro, this Doric-columned concrete building stands among Kawagoe's black-plastered kura storehouses.

A 1927 Western-style timber building on a Kawagoe corner, built as a timber showroom and later the Rokkenmachi Post Office. Registered in 1997, still in use.

A late Edo well hall south of the Niomon gate at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, with a 3-meter-square well floor, a Suitengu room and fine carving.

A 1783 shrine, middle of three behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, holding five deities, with a red ochre frame and painted gable.

An 1879 two-storey lodging hall for pilgrims at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, with six 8-mat rooms per floor and a cusped-gable porch. Registered 2017.

A tiny 1787 one-bay shrine of plain wood behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, its eaves crowded with fine carving. Registered 2017.

A 1761 bell tower at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, on a double base with a boarded lower storey and open bell floor, made tall by later work. Registered 2017.

A 1785 one-bay shrine behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, almost identical to the Sanbo Kojin Shrine built two years later. Registered 2017.

The 1894 Niomon gate of Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin in Kumagaya, Saitama, five bays wide, with Nio guardians and carved birds and flowers on its beam. Registered 2017.

A 1958 zelkova tahoto pagoda on a rise at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, built for the war dead and world peace, with revivalist details. Registered in 2017.

A hand-washing pavilion of 1883 to 1897 at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama: 3.4 square meters, with leaning posts, a stone basin and heavy carving. Free to see.

A late Edo merchant house on the old Nikko Kaido in Satte, Saitama, with a gabled front and a hipped rear. Registered in 2009, it now operates as a cafe.

A mid-Meiji fieldstone wall, 62 meters long and up to 2.8 meters high, wrapping the Arai headman estate in Hidaka, Saitama, with a curved face and locked corner.

The Arai headman estate's smallest building, in Hidaka, Saitama: a mid-Meiji clay storehouse on stones, with storage jars sunk into its earth floor for food.

Built in 1906 for the Arai headman family's guests in Hidaka, Saitama, this two-storey hall has a carved karahafu porch and alcoved guest rooms facing Kinchakuda.

The Arai headman family's main house in Hidaka, Saitama: a 23-meter, six-room farmhouse whose two west rooms hold alcove, shelves and desk. Tiled in 1993.