Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A mortared check dam of 1930 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, one tread in a staircase of low dams on a straight reach, registered in 2015 at 29 meters.

A 1915 two-storey guest building at the Kansuiro inn, Murasugi Onsen, Agano: central porch, east veranda, Western-style eaves and sukiya rooms. Registered in 2016.

A 1968 single-storey banquet hall at the Kansuiro inn in Agano, Niigata, said to be a moved Meiji farmhouse; deep upper walls and twin tie beams. Registered 2021.

A late Meiji two-storey pavilion on a rise at the Kansuiro inn in Agano, Niigata, with wraparound verandas, a classic alcove and glass doors. Registered in 2021.

Listed in 2006, the Former Aikawa Detention Branch Cell Building has 10 rooms off a central corridor: 6 single cells of about 3 mats, 3 shared cells, an infirmary.

Built in 1954 and listed in 2006, the Former Aikawa Detention Branch Office Building splits at its entrance: interview and examination rooms west, offices east.

The Former Aikawa Detention Branch Kitchen and Storehouse, listed in 2006, holds the stores, cooking area and artificial stone bath that served the cells next door.

The Former Aikawa Detention Branch Gate and Wall, listed in 2006, is the only concrete part of the site: a 5 metre barred gate and 113 metres of perimeter wall.

A 17 m early Showa stone wall at the old Aikawa tax office, Sado: fitted rhyolite up to 2.6 m high on the lane, rough walling with mine waste rock. Registered 2009.

A two-story record store of about 1931 behind the old Aikawa tax office on Sado, with mortar walls, iron shutters and a king post truss roof. Registered in 2009.

A 1931 two-story timber tax office on Nagasaka in Aikawa, Sado, with a symmetrical front: central gambrel roof, gabled end bays, tall windows. Registered in 2009.

Early Showa concrete gateposts and a low side wall before the old Aikawa tax office on Sado, with a karato-men chamfer and washed mortar finish. Registered 2009.

An 1853 thatched chumon-style farmhouse in the snowy mountains of Joetsu, Niigata, registered in 2014, with a massive frame.

Raised in 1928 at the back of the Ariake plot in Niigata, this L-shaped wing turns board cladding, latticed windows and log rafters toward a narrow lane.

Built in 1910 in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, the front wing of the former restaurant Ariake keeps a curved porch and a second floor overhanging the alley.

Completed in 1924 behind a courtyard in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, this wing holds an eighteen-mat guest room with a burled log alcove post and a round window.

Villagers in the Niigata hills built this wooden gymnasium themselves in 1952. Its timber truss is open to view, and a mezzanine etiquette room juts over the hall.

Shaped natural stones stacked six courses and capped with coping form the wall framing the Kina saffron sake compound and giving Nagaoka's Settaya a street-side face.

Attached to the main house, this two-storey plaster storehouse carries saffron petals on its gable and dragons on its inner doors, an early work in the lime-relief craft.

Standing alone at the north of the grounds, this storehouse is the oldest survivor from when brewing began here, its gable shaped into the character for good fortune.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.

UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.