Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. It stands south of its twin, ridge slightly lower, plaster carried to the eaves on the front alone.

A mid-Meiji stone boundary in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. A gate 3.1 metres wide opens at one end, and dressed stone walling runs on for 77 metres.

Raised in 1906 to welcome home Russo-Japanese War veterans, this 4.7-meter stone arch at Aira in Kagoshima is one of very few permanent triumphal gates in Japan.

A thatched farmhouse of about 1877 in Chiran, Kagoshima, one of only three surviving Chiran-type futatsuya, which join living and kitchen blocks. Registered in 2007.

A two-story plastered storehouse of about 1875 in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. Its cut-stone footing includes a single block running fully 3.8 meters.

The Akagawa storehouse in Omorimachi, Yokote, Akita, a two-storey clay store of 1885 later faced in brick, carries brick dentils and a brick-framed doorway.

An L-shaped thatched farmhouse of 1900 to 1903, moved from Tazawako in 1989 and rebuilt at Akita's agricultural science museum. Stable indoors, and free entry.

Training Building No. 1 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the northern end of eight 1934 rice warehouses that stored state rice until 1990, now an art school.

Training Building No. 3 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the third of eight 1934 rice warehouses standing eave to eave, handed to the city in 1994 for a college.

Training Building No. 2 in Akita, registered in 2000, is the second of eight 1934 rice warehouses built on reclaimed land by the Omono River, now an art school.

The Creative Studio Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the seventh of eight 1934 rice warehouses, styled like a storehouse with an insulating double roof.

The Gallery Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the fifth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, roofed with a hybrid of Japanese framing and Western Howe trusses.

The Craft Experience Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the fourth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, each 45 metres long, with a rail platform canopy east.

The Community Exchange Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the sixth of eight 1934 rice warehouses, refitted as a college centre for public classes and talks.

The Araya Library Warehouse Building in Akita, registered in 2000, is the southern end of eight 1934 rice warehouses and now holds library shelves open to all.

A working sake brewery building at Yokote in Akita, registered in 2011. A mud-walled ginjo house, and a stone moto room in Innai tuff, still brewing Amanoto.

A middle-Meiji earthen-walled brewhouse at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita, the core of the site, with black plaster bands and a chevron mark on its gable wall.

A late-Meiji husked-rice granary built for the Kannonko relief society, now at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita: 25 m long, with a canopied door in its west gable.

Two late-Meiji storehouses of the Kannonko relief society, a husked-rice granary and a rice store, joined end to end for 36 m at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita.

A middle-Meiji brewhouse at Aramasa Sake Brewery in Akita, linked by the government to the origin of Kyokai No. 6, the oldest sake yeast strain still in use today.