Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Late Taisho work registered in 2024, the entrance of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi carries a carved strut above its beam, and a tatami corridor runs on to the banquet hall.
The oldest of the three registered Takadai buildings in Hagi, this early Meiji earthen storehouse held the trays and tableware for a hundred-mat banquet hall.
Sabo dam begun in 1916 on the Midai River in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, Japan's first built with cement, later raised with an arch on its gravity base; 22.6 m high.
Isagoya Ryokan in Minobu, registered in 2016, is an early Showa three-storey inn at the start of Kuonji's approach, said to have been moved from Fujinomiya.
Timber chapel of 1897 in Ichikawamisato, Yamanashi, built by a Canadian Methodist mission church in white-plastered kura style; still used for worship today.
Concrete arch bridge of 1931 over a gorge in Katsunuma, Koshu, Yamanashi, built to carry grapes to the station; now a footbridge and part of the wine heritage story.
Hot-spring building in Yamanashi City, a communal bath of about 1875 with an entrance wing of about 1942, keeping its original half-sunken spring bath.
Concrete cylindrical water divider of 1927 in Koshu, Yamanashi, where siphoned river water wells up and is split into three equal shares for farms and homes.
The 1933 main house of a Kofu restaurant inn beside the Takeda residence site, with glazed garden doors, restored exposed-post walls and a peacock-plaster alcove.
A 24-square-metre guest room built in 1933 for a Kofu restaurant inn, with garden-facing windows, embossed kinkarakami paper and cupboards beside the alcove.
A 1933 gabled timber gate that fronted a Kofu restaurant inn, with bracing posts, bracketed arms, sliding lattice doors and a plaque still reading Hotta Kojoen.
A tiny 1933 tea room in Kofu laid out on a rhombus, with a four-and-a-half-mat room and biwa-dana alcove, restored to its original footprint from foundation traces.
A long tiled service building from 1933 that forms the street front of a Kofu restaurant inn with its gate, keeping original timbers after conversion into 2 rooms.
A 1933 detached guest room at a former Kofu restaurant inn, built to the same size and plan as its north twin and framing the east edge of the garden.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Inner Room in Kofu is a 1912 two-storey reception wing with three rooms on each floor, kumiko lattice transoms and west alcoves.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Rice Storehouse and Tool Storehouse in Kofu is a late Meiji storehouse: an open rice store, a 2-level tool store, a lean-to.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Kofu is a 1905 gatehouse whose rooms held a rickshaw man and the doctor's clinic, with zelkova doors.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence West Document Storehouse in Kofu is a c.1912 earthen storehouse with mortar walls, an artificial stone base and a king post truss.
The Sakurabayashi Family Residence East Document Storehouse in Kofu is a late Edo-period earthen storehouse, the oldest building on the site, set on brick footings.
Stone outlet of 1918 in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi, where a hydro waterway from Lake Kawaguchi leaves a tunnel and runs downhill in an open channel to a power station.
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