Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Great Buddha Hall of Chokokuji in Akata, Yurihonjo, Akita, built in 1893, houses an Eleven-Headed Kannon about 8 metres tall, known as the Great Buddha of Akata.

The honjin of Tsurunoyu Onsen in Senboku, Akita, is an early Meiji thatched building 43 metres long whose guest rooms keep the air of an old mountain spa.

Tenshikan, the former Seien Maria-en of 1932 in Kosaka, Akita, was a kindergarten for the families of Kosaka Mine workers, a timber building in plain Western style.

This Protestant church of 1949 in Jumonji, Yokote, Akita, has a bell tower on its gabled front and a worship space without columns, a landmark in the town centre.

The Toda Family Residence in Yokote, Akita, a large farmhouse of about 1916, has two entrances on its front and lean-to roofs on all four sides, a tidy example.

The main building of the Towada Hotel, built in 1938 above Lake Towada in Kosaka, Akita, is a three-storey timber hotel clad in Akita cedar, a fine large building.

Built in 1938, last of a row of warehouses, keeping a number with nothing left to count. A king post truss inside, washed granite on the signboard gable.

The only Naba Kamiten building with a firm date, 1897, and the largest storehouse at 157 square metres. Black plaster outside, a boat bracket at the ridge.

Rebuilt after Akita's 1886 Tawaraya Fire and registered in 2014, this 463-square-metre townhouse still trades as a washi paper shop. Low Edo roof, exposed beams.

An earthen archive storehouse of 106 square metres, its roof run into the main house so the two read as one. Middle Meiji fabric, moved here in 1908. Closed.

At 70 square metres, the smallest of the five registered buildings, standing alone across the street. Once the internal storehouse of a house that no longer stands.

The council chamber of Noshiro, Akita, a timber hall of 1950 beside the city office, has a geometric front, close-set wide windows and a queen-post truss roof.

The first building of Noshiro City Hall in Akita, a concrete office of 1949, shows its rigid frame plainly on a 51-metre front, a fine postwar city hall.

Hachimorien in Yajima, Yurihonjo, Akita, a house of about 1877 in the old samurai quarter, has a curved entrance gable and a rear wing finished in fine woods.

The Koji-gura in Masuda is an early-Meiji earthen storehouse, still used as Hinomaru Jozo's koji room for culturing rice. Its interior is closed to visitors.

The Chuo-gura is the largest building at Hinomaru Jozo in Masuda, an early-Meiji earthen storehouse about 24 metres long, still used for storage. It is closed.

The Hinomaru Jozo shop faces the old highway in Masuda, its gable end showing tiered beams in the local townhouse style. A sales counter runs on site.

The Nishi-gura stands across the highway from the Hinomaru Jozo shop in Masuda. A ridge tablet dates it to 1919 and names its carpenter. Its interior is closed.

The Higashi-ato-gura in Masuda is the Taisho half of a paired storehouse at Hinomaru Jozo, built with a king-post truss unlike its older Meiji twin. It is closed.

The Higashi-mae-gura in Masuda is the older half of a paired storehouse at Hinomaru Jozo, its stacked-beam roof keeping the look of early-Meiji work. It is closed.