Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Timber school of 1933 in Nagai, Yamagata, 93 metres long in the Stick Style with a symmetrical front; a school until 2015, reopened in 2019 as a community hub.

A mortared stone sabo dam built 1916 to 1920 on the upper Nakazawa River in Obanazawa, Yamagata, among the prefecture's first after the 1913 floods. Registered 2010.

A late Edo two-storey earthen storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata, joined to the family home, with stepped plaster doors. Registered 2008.

A Taisho brewing storehouse at the back of the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: 19 m long, lime-plastered, with an iron door and a trussed roof.

An 1886 two-storey earthen storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata, with lime plaster, wainscot and paired window shutters. Registered 2008.

An 1838 shop and family home at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: 20 m long, with a doma on the north and six rooms to the south. Registered in 2008.

A Taisho two-storey storehouse at the Naganuma sake brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: lime plaster, iron doors in local stone, tanks on a concrete floor, trussed roof.

A long earthen storehouse facing Tokamachi Street at the Naganuma brewery in Nagai, Yamagata: three older kura joined for rice polishing. Registered in 2008.

The annex of the New Murao Romankan inn at Kaminoyama in Yamagata, built in 1937, sets five pavilions around a pond, their rich interiors recalling the spa's heyday.

The Hotel Otowaya Main Building by Yonezawa Station, a timber building of 1898, stands out with arched doors, bay windows and cusped windows on its three floors.

The Maizuru Bridge of 1886 crosses the moat of Yonezawa Castle on the approach to Uesugi Shrine, a wide stone arch known locally as the Spectacles Bridge.

The main hall of Myozenji in Yamagata, designed by Ito Chuta in 1934, has bell and drum towers flanking its front and a 60-mat great hall inside, showing his style.

Built in 1922 and registered in 2015, Uzen-Narita Station in Nagai City is a 99-square-metre wooden station house with geometric cutwork around its ticket window.

Nishi-Otsuka is the only Flower Nagai Line station left from its light railway days, pairing a 78-square-metre wooden building with a 104-metre stone platform.

Yamashiroya Kyukan in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a 1918 timber inn building registered in 2011. Glazed corridors wrap guest rooms that face the Zao mountains.

Yamashiroya Nigura in Kaminoyama, Yamagata, is a late-Meiji earthen-walled storehouse registered in 2011, built to hold the working stock of a hot spring inn.

Yoshitei Kita-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a plastered storehouse of about 1919, registered in 2003. It packs three floors and a basement into 46 square metres.

Yoshitei Honya in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a two-storey silk merchant's house of about 1919. Registered in 2003, its Akita cedar rooms now serve a beef restaurant.

Yoshitei Minami-dozō in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a late Edo storehouse of 1830 to 1867. It survived the great fire of 1919, held raw silk, and was registered in 2003.

Yoshitei Mon in Yonezawa, Yamagata, is a zelkova gate of 1940 on the old Aizu road. Registered in 2003, this single-bay yakuimon spans about 2.6 metres in width.

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