Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Yuasa Product Center on Kamakura's Wakamiya-oji is a 1936 kanban-kenchiku shop with a scratch-tile front and six framed arched windows on its upper floor.

A 6.6-metre marble obelisk of 1937 on the Tokiwadai campus, designed by Nakamura Junpei for Suzuki Tatsuji, the principal who ran his school without exams or marks.

Built in 1897 so Yokohama could stop pumping, this Doshi River intake pairs a 4.6-metre cobble-packed iron grille with two Glasgow-made pipes. Registered 1998.

A 34.2-metre concrete square above the Doshi River, this 1897 basin let silt drop out before water reached the Kawai and Nogeyama plants. Registered 1998.

This small brick shelter of 1915 caps the distribution well at Yokohama's Nishiya plant, mirroring its twin across the reservoir. Opened to visitors in July 2026.

Built in 1881 and moved to Ryukoji in 1969, this open bell tower has inward-leaning round posts, packed Zen-style brackets and a bell any visitor may ring by day.

A 399-square-meter, two-story reception hall at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, dated 1932 and said by the temple to be a silk merchant's Matsushiro mansion moved here in 1935.

An 1867 purification pavilion at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, just 5.1 square meters yet full of late-Edo carving: turtles on waves and a dragon carved in the round.

Built in 1720, the oldest registered building at Ryukoji in Fujisawa enshrines Myoken, bodhisattva of the North Star, under a coffered ceiling by the approach.

Ishiba Ryokan in Hirosaki, Aomori, an inn of 1879, sets two hip-and-gable wings in a staggered line, its glass and balustrades bearing the name of the house.

Built in 1937 by the Tsugaru Strait and moved to Namioka in 2008, this weatherboarded forestry office rings its gable window in scratch tile. Now a cafe and museum.

A late Edo thatched house in Kuroishi's old samurai quarter: six bays by five, a hipped roof, an early alcove inside. Registered 2006, and still a private home.

Built in 1897 for the Izumiyama family of Hachinohe, this Aomori house borrows shrine carpentry for its porch and gained a daylit reception wing in 1919.

Stone rather than timber, this 1919 gate at Kojokaku in Hachinohe curves its capping slab upward at both ends, quoting the profile of a Shinto shrine torii.

A 1916 earthen storehouse in Hirakawa, Aomori, with an arabesque plaster relief and hexagonal stonework. Registered in 2005, it stands among dozens of farm kura.

Sataki Dozo in Sannohe, Aomori, is a 1912 storehouse whose plasterer came from Morioka. Black plaster, white plaster and namako tile lattice divide its walls.

Sataki Bunko-gura in Sannohe, Aomori, is a black-plastered storehouse of 1893, the oldest building on the plot. An ink inscription fixes its month of completion.

Sataki Bettei in Sannohe, Aomori, is a 1925 villa by the Horie-gumi, with an octagonal belvedere above a sukiya wing. Its original interior survives complete.

Sataki Honten in Sannohe, Aomori, rose in reinforced concrete after fire took the family shop in 1923. It was Aomori's first registered cultural property.

The Sataki gate and wall in Sannohe, Aomori, front the back-street entrance of the Sataki villa. Exposed-aggregate posts and a long wall answer the house behind.