Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1850 as the honjin of Yakiyama on the Aizu Kaido, this thatched house in Aga, Niigata became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2024. Not open.

A small 1921 farm store on a stone wall above the old Aizu Kaido in Aga, Niigata, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2024 for its role in the landscape.

An early Meiji barn in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. The thatched roof is notched helmet-style to light the loft, and eaves ride on a projecting dashigeta.

A Taisho kura in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. A separate sheet-iron roof keeps the plaster dry, boarded screens block snow, and rice filled the ground floor.

Registered in 2000, this mid-18th-century Niigata farmhouse housed the Furuyama village headmen. Its T-shaped plan lifts a bell-striker roof over 349 square metres.

A 20-square-metre storehouse on a Niigata headman's compound, with a coffered ceiling and a Buddhist altar built into its ground floor. Registered in 2000.

Saieiji Rokuwatei in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a 34-square-metre hall of 1857. Once the main hall of the dissolved Eitokuji temple, it was registered in 2000.

The Yahiko Shrine Talisman Office in Niigata, a 1916 gabled building facing the ablution pavilion, has a gable end composed for those arriving by the east approach.

The Otoko Subsidiary Shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata, fifth in a row of eight, honours the deity said to have built the shrine; it was rebuilt in 1916.

The Imayama Subsidiary Shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata, third in a row of eight, was rebuilt in 1916 after the 1912 fire as a twin of the Otoko shrine.

The Inari Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a late Edo store for the portable shrine, built like a gabled shrine with a porch and brackets.

A 1914 seaside villa in Hayama, Kanagawa, built for the Higashifushimi princely family to a design by Kigo Kozaburo, with a tower, Secessionist details and sunrooms.

A 27-square-metre timber storehouse behind a Hadano shop, its mortar walls scored to read as coursed stone. Registered in 2017 as a Tangible Cultural Property.

Frontage of 1.2 metres, depth of 1.8 metres, and a national registration number. This mortar-sealed box behind a Hadano shop is among Japan's smallest listings.

Twin in size to the storehouse beside it, this Hadano warehouse carries a king post truss overhead, a Western technique the national record singles out.

The Roman Bath of the Iwamotoro inn on Enoshima, built in about 1930, is a Western-style bath under a glass dome, with tiled walls and peacock stained glass.

The main hall of Oyamadera, halfway up Mount Oyama in Kanagawa, is a grand Shingon hall of 1885 whose dragon-carved porch recalls the heyday of the Oyama pilgrimage.

Built in 1924 for a Fujisawa druggist, this shop-house moved to a farm in 1938 and to Seiganji temple in 2014. Registered in 2017, it now serves as a Buddhist hall.

Designed in 1936 by Kasai Manji, co-architect of Tokyo Station, this Kamakura house joins Japanese rooms and a garden veranda to a Western porch. Registered in 2020.

The Former Kachi Residence in Hayama, completed in 1928 to designs by Endō Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, is a Prairie-style house of Ōya stone, now a rental.

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