Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A two-storey timber guest wing of 1933 to 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, its plan bent so rooms face the stream, with cypress posts and rare alcove timbers.

A two-storey timber building at the far end of the Ochiairo inn grounds in Izu City, worked in the sukiya manner, with pierced transoms drawn from The Tale of Genji.

Morimura Bridge in Oyama, Shizuoka, built in 1906 for a tramway from a spinning mill to the station, is a 39-metre steel Pratt truss, an early Japanese-built truss.

A 1939 timber villa in Atami, Shizuoka, registered in 2019, with Japanese rooms on both floors facing Sagami Bay, finished in slender, elegant sukiya style.

Ryokan Inaba in Ito, Shizuoka, a three-storey timber inn of the late Taisho period on the Matsukawa River, is with the Tokaikan a symbol of the Ito hot springs.

The Akakura family townhouse in Nanao, Ishikawa, from the late Meiji period before 1912, keeps a classic front with upper-floor lattice and short side fire walls.

Akatsukiya, a two-storey timber townhouse of 1933 on a corner in Kanazawa, has projecting lattices on both floors and is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The Asanaga Family Residence, a registered late-Edo farmhouse on the edge of old Kanazawa, keeps its earthen work floor and heavy timber frame. A private home.

On the edge of old Kanazawa near the Asano River, this late-Edo storehouse pairs a stone-look plastered base with white-plaster upper walls and a floating roof.

The Asanogawa Bridge in Kanazawa is a three-arch reinforced concrete bridge of 1922, 55 metres long, with roughcast spandrels and granite cutwaters at its piers.

The Asanogawa Bridge Fire Watchtower at the north end of the bridge in Kanazawa is the city's oldest, a steel tower of 1924 on a triangular plan, 11 metres tall.

The Awazu Enbujo Theater in Komatsu, built about 1933 for a national innkeepers' convention, is a playhouse-style theatre that was restored and reopened in 2014.

On Kanazawa's Kodatsuno plateau, a 1928 home for biochemist Suto Kenzo: a half-timbered front, Japanese sides under one red-tiled roof, a central-corridor plan.

A 57-metre wall in Kanazawa that grows a hedge between twin concrete runs, built in 1928 for a German-trained doctor and now a registered cultural property.

Built in 1931 and modeled on a Kyoto National Treasure, this cypress Noh stage was moved into Japan's first public Noh theater, beside Kenrokuen in Kanazawa.

Built in 1922 as an army commander's villa by Kenrokuen, this Kanazawa house shows a different face on each side and opens free beside a conservation studio.

In central Kanazawa, Ishiguro Shoten's store and house is a 1936 art dealer's machiya, red-ochre timber set against black plaster walls, registered in 2015.

North of Kanazawa Castle, the Izumi Residence is the rare late-Edo home of a lower-ranking samurai, its plaster-and-timber gable facade registered in 2004.

A two-story earthen storehouse built in late-Edo Kanazawa for a middle-rank samurai family. Plain but finely made, it was registered as a cultural property in 2004.

A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.

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