Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Shin-Mutsu Ryokan Main Building in Hachinohe, Aomori: a former pleasure-quarter house of about 1897, later an inn, with a skylit stairwell and Y-shaped stair.

The old Ashino Koen station of the Tsugaru Railway in Goshogawara, Aomori, built for the line's opening in 1930, keeps its half-hipped gables and ticket counter.

A 1949 two-storey storehouse in Hirakawa, Aomori, registered in 2007, whose black plaster lintels are decorated with dragon-shaped swirls.

Abekawa Bridge in Shizuoka, a 491-metre steel truss bridge of 1923 on the old Route 1 and registered in 2023, is said to be Japan's longest bowstring truss bridge.

Built in 1943 at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji, the Mizugura is a half-buried concrete vault ringed by a stone moat that can be flooded to protect its art from fire.

Momiji is a 1927 guest wing at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji. Two rooms, a wide veranda, Kyoto roof tiles, copper eaves and bengara-red walls give it a quiet Kyoto air in Izu.

Yuki no Mune, an 1899 wing at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji, sits between two streams from the Hana no Ike pond. Its bath wing has a curved mukuri roof with a smoke vent.

Yoshino no Mune, a 1935 wing at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji, stands apart like a villa, finished in fine Amagi cedar. It is remembered as the wing the inn favoured most.

Watari no Hashi is an 1899 roofed drum bridge at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji, linking Tsuki no Mune and Yuki no Mune. Its gapped board floor reveals the stream as you cross.

Built in 1939 in Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City, this registered house sets a gabled east roof against a hipped west roof, with buried cedar inside. A private home.

A 1907 merchant house in Ito City, registered in 2015 and open for 100 yen, honouring the poet and dermatologist Kinoshita Mokutaro, born nearby in 1885.

Ume Goten in Rakujuen park, Mishima, is a sukiya villa of 1890 built for Prince Komatsu, with a plum-wood alcove post and rooms stepped down the slope.

Kaikodo Murakamiya, a timber shop of 1926 before Mishima Taisha in Shizuoka, has a symmetrical front clad entirely in copper sheet laid in changing patterns.

The Kaise house in Numazu, Shizuoka, a late Edo home of village headmen in the Izu hills, opens its front rooms at festivals to receive the shrine and dances.

The Triumphal Memorial Gate at Rokusho Shrine in Hamamatsu, built in 1906 for the Russo-Japanese War, is an early brick arch in Shizuoka with sawtooth capitals.

Honyoshiwara Station on the Gakunan Railway in Fuji has an island platform of 1950 and a shelter of 1968 whose welded steel-tube frame takes the shape of a mushroom.

The Zuiryukaku of Kasuisai in Fukuroi, Shizuoka, is a grand guest hall of 1937 whose rooms are each decorated on their own theme with painted doors and transoms.

The tosu of Kasuisai in Fukuroi, Shizuoka, a Zen lavatory hall of about 1937, enshrines the guardian deity of toilets on a central dais under a wickerwork ceiling.

The Kangyodo Tunnel of 1910 in Atami, Shizuoka, carries the old Atami-Ito road through the Uomizaki headland in cut stone, its portals framed by pilasters.

The red-brick warehouse by Kikugawa Station in Shizuoka, a late Meiji tea store, keeps its arched openings and traces of tea blending from the local trade.

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