Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A tall 2-storey timber house of c.1899 in Nishidomari, Nagasaki, with a brick firewall on its east boundary, registered in 1997 for its rare mix of wood and brick.

An early Meiji stone warehouse on a corner in Nishidomari, Nagasaki: sandstone walls with a cornice and gables of thin local konnyaku brick, registered in 1997.

A 2-storey stone warehouse of c.1899 at the Sato house in Nagasaki, a rare survivor of the stone stores once common in the city's foreign settlement, listed 1997.

A small single-storey timber annex of c.1899 at the Sato house in Nagasaki, linking the main house to a stone warehouse, with brick firewalls on both long walls.

An early Meiji wing behind the Sato main house in Nagasaki: a stone ground floor topped by a slender, sukiya-style timber upper floor, registered in 1997.

Four courses of two-meter blocks with recessed edges, running twelve meters along a koi-filled spring channel in Shimabara. Registered in 2014, viewable any hour.

Built around 1935 in Shimabara's Shinmachi district, this 158-square-meter timber house turns its guest rooms toward a spring-fed garden. Registered in 2014.

A brick wall rising straight from the side masonry of a spring channel in Shimabara, thirty meters long and barely one brick thick, braced by piers every 2.4 meters.

The Shimizu main house in Shimabara, Nagasaki, is a late Meiji townhouse registered in 2003. It drops the walled front garden of older local townhouses.

Senkinko, an earthen storehouse at the Matsura Historical Museum in Hirado, Nagasaki, was registered in 2014. Its raised floor fits a castle-origin tradition.

The main house of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, is a late Taisho dwelling in the castle's third bailey, its rooms stepped toward the garden.

The garden pavilion of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, is a thatched retreat of about 1933, its veranda turned toward the Ariake Sea. Not open.

The gate and stone wall of the Tsutsumiuchi Residence in Shimabara, Nagasaki, pair late Edo andesite masonry with Taisho gate posts. Visible from the street.

Erected in 1890 and moved to Dejima in 1910, this pin-connected Pratt truss is the oldest iron road bridge in Japan still carrying vehicles. Registered in 2021.

This 1890 porcelain wholesaler's house in Hasami keeps its doma, mise and zashiki plan intact. Registered in 2003, it now trades as a Hasami ware gallery and shop.

The Nakagawa Bridge of 1918 in Nagasaki carries the old highway over the Narutaki River on a level stone arch; upstream stands the bridge of 1654 it renamed.

The former official residence of the mayor of Nagasaki, built in 1922, is a mansard-roofed house faced in terracotta, with a bay window and Secession-style details.

The Komaneki Bridge of 1903 at Nagasaki University, a smooth stone arch over the Nishiyama River, survives from the founding of the commercial school.

This brick warehouse of 1907 at Nagasaki University, in English bond on a granite base, is the only building left from the founding of the commercial school.

Keirin Hall at Nagasaki University, the 1919 brick research hall of the former Nagasaki Higher Commercial School, is symmetrical with Secession ornament.

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