Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Clubhouse of 1963 by Antonin Raymond at the Tokyo Golf Club in Sayama, Saitama, with log posts and beams and a lodge-like lounge round a fireplace; members only.

Village kabuki stage of 1899 at Yasaka Shrine in Tochiya, Chichibu, Saitama, with a fully opening front and a movable raised platform; a rare regional shrine stage.

The gate and 75-metre brick wall around a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama. English bond, 2.7 metres high, capped by a pantiled roof. Listed in 2019.

A brick-and-timber building of about 1900 on a Kawaguchi estate in Saitama, where a foundry owner ran the prefecture's first electric lighting. Flemish bond.

A household strongroom of 1905 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, limewashed above and rendered like masonry below, in line with two reception wings.

A late Taisho outbuilding on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, with an earth floor, an open lean-to across the front and a barred storage loft above it.

A Western house of about 1922 at the centre of a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama, with German render, tall windows and Secession detailing at the porch.

A tool store of about 1911 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama. An English-bond shell plastered to look traditional, and the smallest of the seven.

A reception wing of about 1905 on a Kawaguchi foundry estate in Saitama: two antechambers, a ten-mat formal room and a veranda, older than the Western wing.

A foundry family's house of about 1938 in central Kawaguchi, Saitama, its hip-and-gable pantile body fronted by a projecting Western wing in glazed tile.

A 1953 timber nursery building in Fukaya, Saitama, across the prefectural border from its parent church in Gunma and modeled on the main school. Registered 2008.

The main hall of Hachijo Hachiman Shrine in Yashio, Saitama, built in 1891, is a carved hall whose side panels show the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution.

A late-Edo merchant storefront in Chichibu, registered in 2004. Low eaves, fine lattice, and a courtyard well of nationally listed spring water, free to take.

Built in 1926, three years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, this zelkova-framed farmhouse near Musashi-Urawa Station was registered in 2006. Exterior viewing only.

A late Edo gatehouse moved here in the Meiji era and registered in 2006. Zelkova timber and studded doors support the tradition that it came from Iwatsuki Castle.

A registered wooden archery hall in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 by the physician Takagi Tasuku, with arrow-feather window bars and bow-curved ceiling battens.

Target house of a private archery range in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 and registered in 2023. Fourteen square metres, open at the front, an earth bank inside.

Maze Dam in Honjo, Saitama: a 1937 concrete gravity dam, 126 m long and 28 m high, with a timber house on its intake tower, built for the Kodama irrigation canal.

Maze Dam Management Bridge in Honjo, Saitama: a 1938 three-span concrete bridge below the dam, its piers arched at the base and grooved for stop logs. Now a path.

Matsumoto Kyoshitsu Main House in Chichibu, Saitama: a two-storey wooden townhouse built as an inn in 1929 on the old Chichibu road, now used as a tutoring school.

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