Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Behind a heavy gabled porch and its old saffron-sake signboard, the 469-square-metre timber main house in Nagaoka opens for guided visits on weekends and holidays.

Standing alone at the north, this single-storey rice storehouse shows a king-post truss inside and reopened in 2020 as a fermentation museum and cafe.

Iron sheet covers the roof, base and inner walls of this storehouse at the southwest corner, rumoured to have made fireworks though its original use is unknown.

Attached to the rear of the main house, this storehouse held the brewing tanks and raw stock, its four free-standing pillars carrying the roof over the tonic-sake floor.

Attached north of the main house, this storehouse held the drug store and bottling floor where herbs became the tonic sake, roofed on a queen-post truss.

The largest storehouse of the compound stands behind the main house, its six free-standing pillars carrying the roof over a floor of roughly 219 square metres.

Attached at the rear of the main house, this two-storey timber parlor greets guests through a cusped-gable porch and opens two garden-facing sides in glass.

The Former Kobayashi Kokei Residence, a 1934 sukiya house by Yoshida Isoya for the painter Kobayashi Kokei, was moved from Tokyo to Takada Castle Site Park in 2001.

A 1927 classical bank in Niigata faced in granite with four Ionic columns, moved in 2003 to the grounds of the Niigata City History Museum and registered in 2005.

The former Daishi Bank manager's house in Murakami, Niigata, built in 1936 for a credit union chairman, is a timber house with a carriage porch and fine wood inside.

The Gyokusendo Gangi is a Taisho-era covered walkway facing a street in Tsubame, registered in 2008. It is 9.2 m long and 1.3 m deep with an asymmetrical tiled roof.

The Gyokusendo Forging Shop is a Taisho-era workshop in Tsubame, registered in 2008. Artisans hammer copper on tatami beside hearths, and free tours are offered.

The Gyokusendo Store in Tsubame is a late-Meiji shop registered in 2008 for its design. Tatami rooms line an earth-floored passage, and it still sells copper.

The Gyokusendo Storehouse is a 2-storey Taisho clay storehouse in Tsubame, registered in 2008, with white plaster walls, a detached roof and stepped fireproof doors.

The Kuzuresawa Stone Chute in Myoko, Niigata, is a rare 1920s sabo work: a 12 m stone-paved channel on a 25% slope built with a ground sill. Registered 2003.

An 1827 clay-walled sutra store in Kashiwazaki with a hipped front roof, gabled rear, jewel finial and karahafu porch, housing an octagonal revolving sutra case.

The priests' quarters of a Jodo temple in Kashiwazaki, built 1751 to 1830: a gabled, farmhouse-like kuri with a doma and a large tatami room. Registered 2011.

A later Edo gate at the north edge of a Kashiwazaki temple: 2.7 metres wide, with its ridge set midway between main and rear posts, brackets and a carved gable.

A late Edo reception wing linking the kitchen block and main hall of a Kashiwazaki temple: two 8-mat rooms, an alcove, desk alcove and black-lacquered ceiling.

An open late Edo belfry in Kashiwazaki: 4 inward-leaning round columns on a tall stone base, three-block brackets, frog-leg struts and a coffered ceiling. Reg. 2011.

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