Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A household storehouse of 1894 at a Yuzawa brewery in Akita: polished black plaster, a brick base in stretcher bond, stepped fire doors. Now a hall on the tour.

The oldest building at a Yuzawa brewery in Akita: an 1883 storehouse with a pickle store and tatami rooms, on a plinth of local Innai stone. Registered in 2024.

An early Taisho storehouse where soy sauce ages in 24 cedar vats at a Yuzawa brewery in Akita; some vats are too big for the door. Registered in 2024; on the tour.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is an 1892 earthen storehouse 21.7 meters long whose roof rests on bracket-like beams set on wall posts.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 3 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is an early Taisho earthen storehouse with no ridge tablet, sheltered by an outer roof that keeps off snow.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 2 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is a 1908 earthen storehouse 56.04 meters long, the largest at the brewery, its upper floor raised in 1964.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery Main Building in Yuzawa, Akita, is a 1923 office and home with a gabled front showing its wagoya beams. It holds Akita's registration No. 1.

Ryozeki Sake Brewery No. 4 Storehouse in Yuzawa, Akita, is a 1916 earthen storehouse designed from the start to store sake, wider than its other stores.

Ryotei Kaneyu in Noshiro, Akita: a grand 1937 restaurant built of natural Akita cedar, with a 110-mat banquet hall and a ceiling of one 9.1 m board. Free to visit.

The main house of the Watanabe family in Kazuno, Akita, built in 1891 for a samurai-descended landowner, has a great room of 24 and a half mats in fine timber.

The rice storehouse of the Watanabe family in Kazuno, Akita, built in 1902 by the carpenter of the main house, is a 2-storey earthen-walled store set at 45 degrees.

The front gate of the Watanabe family residence in Kazuno, Akita, is a doorless late Edo yakuimon 4.7 metres wide that frames the stone steps leading to the house.

The upper sake storehouse of Watanabe Hikobei Shoten in Gojome, Akita, from the late 18th century, survived a fire in 1921 and keeps a bold frame of thick posts.

The office and residence of the Watanabe Hikobei Shoten brewery in Gojome, Akita, built in 1925, joins a street-front shop with a through passage to tatami rooms.

The lower sake storehouse of Watanabe Hikobei Shoten in Gojome, Akita, from the early 19th century, survived a 1921 fire and closely matches the upper storehouse.

Reinforced-concrete bank branch of 1925 in Miyauchi, Nagaoka, moved in 1952 and opened in 2009 as a free museum of posters by Nagaoka-born designer Akiyama Takashi.

Arakawa Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Tainai, Niigata: an 1841 hip-and-gable hall with a richly carved porch and heavy beams, joined to the sanctuary.

Arakawa Shrine Main Hall in Tainai, Niigata: a tall one-bay sanctuary of 1841 carved with flowing waves, recalling the wealth of a Kitamaebune trading port.

Igantei, the 1912 guest hall that fronted the Hosaka estate in Tonome, Joetsu: a hip-and-gable hall with a copper karahafu porch, kumiko lattice and a stone garden.

Ikinariya's rear gate, a late-Edo service gate on the hill behind the buildings, has a single lattice leaf with a sliding wicket and carefully chamfered posts.

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