Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The main hall of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine in Koshigaya, Saitama, built in 1789, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall richly decorated with fine unpainted carving.

A 1931 reinforced concrete water tower in Kodama, Honjo, Saitama, designed by prefectural engineer Miyahara Yujiro. Now a time-signal tower, registered in 2000.

A late Edo hatago on the Nakasendo in Okegawa, Saitama, run as a timber shop since the 1860s. Registered in 2004 for its deep dashigeta eaves and full-width lattice.

Kongoji Temple Gate in Kawajima, Saitama: an 1852 four-legged gate, only 3.0 m wide, finished with bracket sets, a carved dragon over the lintel and lion-nose ends.

Kongoji Temple Dainichi Hall in Kawajima, Saitama: a tiny mid-Edo hall with a pyramidal copper roof, old-style carvings outside and old paintings within.

Kondo Dental Clinic in Chichibu, Saitama: a 1927 wooden surgery and home in an L-shape, half-timbered with rough render facing the street, Japanese-style behind.

A 1922 wooden schoolhouse in Fukaya, registered in 2000. French Renaissance detail on Japanese carpentry, restored to its original green. Open free on Sundays.

A late-Edo thatched farmhouse in Ina Town, registered in 2019. Adze marks and hand-forged nails date it; six rooms and a formal alcove room. Not open to visitors.

Former Sakata Clinic in Menuma, Kumagaya: a 1931 reinforced-concrete obstetric clinic faced in scratch tiles, with Art Deco lamps and early Showa medical equipment.

The Gyoda main store of Jumangoku Fukusaya, a storehouse-style shop of 1883 on an old highway in Gyoda, Saitama, is plastered all over under large ridge plaques.

Suisokuken in the woods of Heirinji in Niiza, Saitama, is a late Edo farmhouse moved from Hida in 1938, with the stout frame and adze-cut beams of its homeland.

A 1954 concrete memorial on Mount Taikan in Ogose, Saitama, registered in 2020, enshrining remains of the unidentified dead, with a curved ossuary and fluted front.

Taiyoken in Kawagoe, a restaurant building of about 1929, recalls the rebuilding after the Kanto earthquake with an expressionist corner and pointed window.

A late-Edo two-story farmhouse in Gyoda, Saitama, 11 ken long, with a silkworm room upstairs, a raised ventilating ridge and gable windows. Café open Fri to Sun.

A plain late-Edo storehouse in Gyoda, Saitama: a white-plastered dozo block with a tiled lean-to over its front and an attached timber store, the oldest date there.

The 1859 gatehouse of the Takazawa estate in Gyoda, Saitama, dated by its ridge tag, with studded double board doors, a wicket door and rebuilt side rooms.

A barn of about 1870 on the Takazawa estate in Gyoda, Saitama, known as the shinoya, with a work floor of earth below and a silkworm loft vented by high windows.

A single-story wing added around 1897 on the Takazawa estate in Gyoda, Saitama, for the master: three eight-mat rooms with alcoves under a half-hipped roof.

A 1928 eight-span steel girder bridge carrying the old Nakasendo over the Koyama River in Saitama, registered in 2008, with granite parapets and brick abutments.

Flat single-span stone arch of 1889 on the old Isesaki road in Honjo, Saitama, with pentagonal voussoirs; the oldest stone arch bridge still in use in Saitama.

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