Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A stone wall of about 1920 enclosing a Kumagaya headman's estate on two sides: six courses of Oya stone on a natural-stone footing, 136.3 meters long in total.

A late Edo storage range doubling as a boundary wall at a Kumagaya headman's estate: 21 bays long, white plaster over Oya stone, six windows along its south face.

The largest of three Oya stone storehouses at a Kumagaya headman's estate, built in 1920 with two iron-doored entrances and lean-to roofs, now a museum gallery.

An early Shōwa rice store of Bōshū stone on a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, with a stone cornice and timber frames keeping rice bales off the damp walls.

The 1914 main house of a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama: an earth-floored work half, a suite of timber-rich reception rooms, and a formal porch entrance.

An 1894 two-storey earthen storehouse on a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, known for floor beams set flush with the boards and a plastered fire door.

The 1886 gatehouse of a village headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, and its oldest building, with grey soot-tinted plaster walls and single-board zelkova doors.

An 1888 barn on a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, split between an earth-floored miso room open to the rafters and a boarded tool room with a ceiling.

A finely carved early Taishō household shrine in Koshigaya, Saitama, only 3.4 square metres, with a gable-verge porch and railed veranda under an open shelter.

A brick warehouse built in Meiji-era Honjo to hold silk cocoons pledged as bank collateral. Iron-shuttered windows, a king post truss roof, free entry since 2017.

Built in 1934 by the Moroi family, postmasters here since 1872, this Honjo landmark wraps a Japanese timber frame in tile and Art Deco lines on the old Nakasendo.

A timber weaving shed of 1920 in Kawaguchi, Saitama, carrying four saw-tooth roofs over trussed bays. Registered in 2019, privately owned and closed to visitors.

Completed in 1924 behind the weaving sheds in Kawaguchi, Saitama, this copper-roofed house keeps a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2019, private and not open.

A late Edo storehouse of a fertilizer merchant on the Nikko Kaido in Koshigaya, Saitama. Registered in 2025 as a standard of design, now open as a community cafe.

Moved from Ogose in 1957, the Main House of the Former Wada Residence in Tokorozawa kept an unusually wide earth floor for spreading tea leaf. Registered 2013.

Raised in 1902 as a silkworm shed and rebuilt for tea in 1951, this Tokorozawa workshop still shows the line shafting, propeller vent and slatted racks.

Dating to about 1887 and moved by hikiya around 1902, this Tokorozawa storehouse keeps a deep sheltered noki-ba where picked tea leaf was spread to dry.

Wooden shop-house of the early Showa era on a corner of Bamba-dori, the approach to Chichibu Shrine, with a rounded, ornamented street front; now a cafe.

The kagura hall of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine in Saitama, of the early Meiji period and moved in 1974, is a one-bay stage with a dressing room beside the approach.

The purification pavilion of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine in Saitama, of the late Edo period, has cusped gables, splayed posts and carved dragons and brackets.

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