Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Enjinsonsha in Sanjo, Niigata: the tiny cedar-bark study where Morohashi Tetsuji compiled the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, now in his memorial museum garden and free to see.

Okozu Diversion Weir in Tsubame, Niigata: a 146-metre weir of 1922 at the Shinano River's flood channel, considered Japan's first full-scale concrete weir.

Rather than a costly steel viaduct, engineers filled a ravine at Myoko in 1887 and drove a brick-arched stone culvert through its base. Registered back in 2021.

A late Edo farmhouse at Hossue in Nagaoka, Niigata, registered in 2011: a hipped thatch roof 13m, an earth-floored niwa, a four-room plan and an attached stable.

Completed in 1935 and registered in 2003, this three-storey timber ryotei on Niigata's Honcho-dori pairs arched windows with woven copper walls and tiered roofs.

Built in the first autumn of Meiji, this single-storey townhouse keeps the older form of the Takada machiya, with a gangi arcade over the pavement. Registered 2012.

Okkonoki Main House in Ojiya, Niigata: a thatched chumon farmhouse of 1867 with fine tatami rooms, saved by its hamlet after the 2004 quake and run as a guesthouse.

The Onsen Onyado Ryugon Main Building in Minamiuonuma is an early Meiji farmhouse moved here in 1969, with projecting chumon wings, now part of the inn ryugon.

The Kaichi Shrine Worship Hall at Inari Shrine, Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built 1871 and moved 1969, honors the market's founders and has a porch shaped like a torii.

Kappo Tochu Ue-no-kura in Ojiya, Niigata, is a Meiji-era storehouse whose ground floor became a billiard room before the war. It was registered in 2015.

Kappo Tochu Bekkan in Ojiya, Niigata, is a prewar Showa annex linked to the main restaurant at an angle by a skip-floor passage. It was registered in 2015.

Kappo Tochu Honkan in Ojiya, Niigata, is a late-Edo three-storey wooden restaurant listed in 2015. Kawai Tsugunosuke reportedly lunched in its Plum Room in 1868.

Kappo Miyoya, a Taisho-era (1912–1925) restaurant on the old coastal highway in Izumozaki, Niigata, has a veranda, a hammer-beam gable and plaster angels.

A gravity check dam of 1927 below a tributary mouth on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 45 meters long and the key structure of a scheme registered in 2015.

A stone bed-control weir of 1927 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 26 meters long with a wide overflow notch and a diagonally laid face, registered in 2015.

A mortared stone check dam of 1932 at the head of the Kamakurazawa River series in Minamiuonuma, only 13 meters long across a rock narrows, registered in 2015.

A cyclopean concrete check dam of 1929 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, lowest of three dams above a channel bend, registered in 2015 at 31 meters long.

A gravity check dam of 1928 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, its andesite face enclosing a cyclopean concrete core, registered in 2015 at 32 meters long.

A stone bed-control weir of 1935 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 17 meters long and 1.4 meters high, lowest of the eight structures registered in 2015.

A stone check dam of 1930 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 3.9 meters high, battered face and thick crest, best preserved of eight registered in 2015.

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