Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Bannai River No. 4 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1922, drops water in two steps over a stone apron to a secondary dam. Registered in 2003; how to visit.

Bannai River No. 6 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1923, is a low stone check dam whose deep 15 m notch opens the view up a stepped series. Registered 2003.

Hikagesawa No. 1 Ground Sill in Myoko, Niigata, is a 1920s stone ground sill, 30 m long and 5.0 m high, the largest of the Hikagesawa sabo works. Registered in 2003.

The Hikagesawa Upper Reach Ground Sills in Myoko, Niigata, are five cut-stone sills in tanizumi masonry on a 40% slope, built from the 1920s and registered in 2003.

The Hikagesawa Middle Reach Ground Sills in Myoko, Niigata, are 32 stone ground sills curving up a 30% slope over 302 m, built from the 1920s and registered in 2003.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Chimney in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a late-Meiji brick stack in English bond, the last trace of the shed where rice was steamed.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Brewery in Sekikawa, Niigata, dates from 1845 with an early Meiji extension; the family brewed and stored its sake here.

Completed in 1921, the Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Main House in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a 504-square-metre brewer's home with shoin rooms and a beamed kitchen.

Built in 1835, the Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is the oldest dated building on a sake brewer's estate, a clay tool store.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Rice Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a Taisho-era clay store split into miso and rice halves.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Starter Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a narrow board-clad clay store where the family grew its sake yeast starter.

The Furumine Shrine Main Hall in the Isurugi Shrine grounds, Niigata City, is an 1837 shrine almost covered in carving, shown at its June festival; registered 2008.

A late-Meiji earthen storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, its plaster walls boarded against the weather, whose front bay links the rice and miso storehouses.

A large thatched gatehouse from the end of the Edo period on a Sado doctor's estate, with a windowless front to the street and a passage between earthen rooms.

An early-Meiji timber storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, a plastered miso store below and a tokonoma room above, joined to the thatched main house by a bay.

The largest store on a Sado doctor's estate: an early-Meiji earthen rice store wrapped in a timber bay under one gabled roof, said to come from a shipping merchant.

Built in 1949 at the heart of the Hosaka estate in Tonome, Joetsu: a single-storey gabled house with a guest porch and a plain reception room with no nageshi beam.

A mid-Showa glasshouse for fruit and gardening on the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: posts on a waist-high block base, rafters pitched at 45 degrees and a timber anteroom.

An 1826 storehouse moved in 1909 to the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: two plastered kura under one pantiled okiyane roof, with 4 rooms each holding 2 freestanding posts.

A 1909 reception wing west of the Hosaka main house in Joetsu: a hipped-roof single storey with two linked rooms, an alcove and a deep-eaved earthen veranda.

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