Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Chotokuji Temple Imperial Lodging in Shibata, Niigata, is a 2-storey wing moved in 1921 from the villa where Emperor Meiji stayed in 1878, with a sukiya throne room.

Chotokuji Temple Priests' Quarters in Shibata, Niigata, a mid-Meiji wing west of the main hall, holds a 24-mat guest room and two goten suites. Registered 2017.

Chotokuji Temple Main Gate and Wall in Shibata, Niigata, is an 1841 four-legged gate with wicket doors, a 16-meter wall and curved late-Edo supporting posts.

Chotokuji Temple Bell Tower in Shibata, Niigata, a Meiji-period belfry, has waves and chrysanthemums carved only on its approach side and a wave-carved gable board.

Chotokuji Temple Main Hall in Shibata, Niigata, built in 1850, keeps plain sides but a carved front with dragon tail rafters and a coffered ceiling. Registered 2017.

Chofukuji Temple Main Gate in Nagaoka, Niigata, dated to 1774 by its ridge tablet, is a sturdy four-legged gate with copper roof, double rafters and folding walls.

Chofukuji Temple Main Hall in Nagaoka, Niigata, was built in 1855 by local carpenter Takagi Jinbei Mototsuna: a seven-by-six-bay Shin hall with a broad outer hall.

Nakahara Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a braced gate of about 1935 with a copper roof and 63 meters of wall on the north edge.

Nakahara Family Residence Front Gate and Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a 1935 bracketed gate with 69 meters of plastered wall, visible from the road year-round.

Nakahara Family Residence Main House in Akatsuka, Niigata: an 1860 headman's home with bracketed eaves where Emperor Meiji lunched in 1878. Open spring and fall.

Nakahara Family Residence Annex in Akatsuka, Niigata: an early Taisho guest wing off the main house, with an inner veranda and a fully glazed front and sides.

Nakahara Family Residence Brick Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a 51-meter English-bond firebreak with ten arches, said to date from after the fire of 1909.

Built in 1931 at an 1846 Niigata restaurant, this two-story sukiya wing holds a tea room below and paired rooms above. Its gable screen won registration in 2000.

An early-Showa storehouse at a Niigata restaurant, with tiled namako lower walls and double doors stacked in matching pairs. Registered in 2000; now a dining room.

Niigata burned twice in 1908. Rebuilding two years later, this restaurant raised a brick storehouse in header bond, its fire wall rising above the tiled roof.

A brick gate of 1904 facing the old Mikuni Kaido highway, its English-bond piers crowned with a carved stone band and a dentil capstone. Registered in 2022.

A brick building of nineteen square metres, built in 1907 to store, clean and refuel the kerosene lamps used by boarders at Kamo Agriculture and Forestry School.

Built in 1916 for Nagaoka Middle School and registered in 2011, this brick gate is the only prewar structure left on a campus born of the hundred sacks of rice.

Registered in 2008, this late Meiji brick gate in Gosen City sets English bond beside Flemish bond at the prefecture's first technical school of 1903.

Completed in 1929 and registered in 2005 for its design quality, this scratch-tiled Neo-Gothic hall in central Niigata is a free museum you can walk straight into.

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