Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The main entrance of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1895 to link the guest hall and kuri, has a cusped gable with three pendants that anchors the grounds.

The guest hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, has a coffered inner hall and outer halls arranged as a broad, open space with very few interior posts.

The priests' quarters of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built in 1895, have a large hearth room where a pair of pillars recut from the former main hall still stands.

The Daishoin of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, built around 1899 and linked to the guest hall by an arched bridge, has calm audience rooms with snow-country verandas.

The main hall of Honjoji in Sanjo, Niigata, head temple of a Hokke school branch, was built in 1903 by carpenters from Toyama and is richly decorated with carvings.

Built just after Murakami's 1892 fire by carpenter Inagaki Gentaro, this main house, brewery and koji room show a 9.5-ken west gable beside the 1934 street store.

Built in 1934 on Murakami's Omachi Street, this 2-storey townhouse shop with a 5.5-ken frontage was registered for its tall early Showa form. It still sells sake.

A 2-storey tool storehouse of about 1892 behind a Murakami sake shop, with a tall boarded base and exposed-post upper wall, said bought in 1909 with brewing gear.

A two-storey earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, clad in clapboard, with a plastered door and east windows and a glazed lean-to in front.

The 1909 home of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado, rebuilt from an older house and turned gable-end on, keeping the open void over the living room of Sado farmhouses.

The smallest structure at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a 3 square metre early Showa family privy of corrugated iron with a carefully built front eave.

The early Showa garden gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a plain timber gate 2.1 metres wide dividing the garden from the family's living quarters.

A large mid-Meiji timber barn at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, 12 metres long with a side gate built into its west wall, older than the 1909 main house.

The 1932 clinic wing of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado: a hipped-roof timber building with clapboard walls, bracketed eaves, railed gables and a green exterior.

A 12 square metre early Meiji earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, older than the main house and walled in mortar and sheet iron.

The early Showa stone front gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: 3.8 metres wide, with tooled posts, polished edges, rounded tops and no doors.

The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Raiden, Nagaoka, is a large 1878 chumon-zukuri farmhouse with its entrance and stable set in a projecting front wing.

The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Niigata City is a chumon-zukuri farmhouse of about 1921, plain outside but built with fine timber and old beams inside.

The Morohashi Family Residence Storehouse of 1905 in Niigata City holds a rice store and a storeroom behind walls of exposed posts topped by a white plaster cornice.

The corridor of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a 23-metre cantilevered walkway leading visitors to the gallery.

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.