Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The administration building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, greets visitors with deep eaves and a vertical lattice.

The exhibition building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a low concrete hall with a veranda for Ryokan's calligraphy.

The Rengebuji Temple Omon Gate on Sado is a pair of cut-stone pillars about 3.7 metres high, built in 1928 at the north end of the approach as a landmark entrance.

The Rengebuji Temple Mausoleum Shelter on Sado is a Taisho-era gabled building that protects the Toshogu and Taitokuin shrines, its once open front now latticed.

The Rengebuji Temple Karamon Gate on Sado is a mid-Edo four-legged gate in the Zen manner, with main posts rising to the ridge, curved tie beams and a tall strut.

The Rengebuji Temple Guest Hall on Sado, built in 1909 after a flood, is the largest building in the precinct, eight rooms wrapped by a wide L-shaped veranda.

The Rengebuji Temple Sutra Repository on Sado is a mid-Edo earthen storehouse with a timber porch, a good example of a temple sutra store, lined with boards.

The Rengebuji Temple Goma Hall on Sado, dated 1690 by its ridge tablet, is a three-bay hall for the Shingon fire ritual, linked to the guest hall by a corridor.

The Rengebuji Temple Jizo Hall on Sado, built in 1893, is the main hall of the sub-temple Hoshakuin and the first stop on the old Sado Shikoku pilgrimage route.

The Rengebuji Temple Bell Tower on Sado, built in 1615, is a skirted bell tower with a balconied upper storey that keeps Momoyama character despite later changes.

The Rengebuji Temple Taitokuin Mausoleum on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, finely carved and painted, beside the Toshogu.

The Rengebuji Temple Toshogu Shrine on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu, its whole exterior covered in carving and colour, housed in a shelter.

The Rengebuji Temple Dokkodo Hall on Sado is a gabled stone shrine by a spring up a side valley, with a stone inscribed 1622 and demon faces on its ridge ends.

The Rengebuji Temple Niomon Gate on Sado, built in 1822, is an eight-legged gate housing the guardian kings, with round pillars and plinths with donors' names.

The Rengebuji Temple Octagonal Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo eight-sided hall whose carved, three-stepped bracketing forms a dragon among clouds around the eaves.

The Rengebuji Temple Hassodo Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo three-bay hall whose five-stepped bracketing and thatch-form copper roof give it an outsized roof.

The Rengebuji Temple Mitsugondo Hall on Sado, built in 1844, is a small pyramidal-roofed hall on the Sado Shikoku pilgrimage, with carefully carved interior details.

The Rengebuji Temple Mumyo Bridge on Sado is a late Edo stone girder bridge on the path to the Kobodo, its 36 deck slabs carved underneath with Sanskrit letters.

A Taisho-era tea room relocated around 1960 to become a 45-square-metre detached guest room, standing on a stone wall behind the main hall in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.

Built in 1855 as a village headman's residence and now the main hall of a kappo ryokan in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, this 350-square-metre house was registered in 2005.