Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Himi Tunnel in Nagasaki, registered in 2002, is a 642-metre road tunnel of 1926, one of Japan's first built for motor traffic, with ornate Taisho-era portals.

The Fukushige Family Residence Main House in Hasami is the 1928 home of the Fukko kiln owners, with a fine tokonoma room and a carp-carved transom. Usually closed.

Magome Church on Iojima island, Nagasaki, built in 1931, is an early concrete Gothic church with a pinnacled front and an eight-part ribbed vault inside.

The former Kobayashi sake storehouse in Shimabara, Nagasaki, of the late Meiji period, is a huge plastered store with a three-tier roof facing the national road.

The British-built 150-ton hammerhead crane of 1909 at the Mitsubishi shipyard in Nagasaki, part of a World Heritage Site, is to be lowered in December 2026.

Yumiharidake Observatory in Sasebo, built in 1965, is a thin concrete shell by Tsuboi Yoshikatsu resting on 3 points, with a relief by Hongo Shin and wide sea views.

Ryotei Harumi in Nagasaki, a restaurant building of 1907 west of Sofukuji, has rooms stepping back along a pond, a shoin core and sukiya rooms of prized timber.

The lowest of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 10 metres long and 4.2 metres high, built of boulders up to a metre across.

Built in 1887 on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano, this 16-metre dry-stone sabo dam is one of four low, gently battered dams still guarding the valley today.

Second of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 12 metres long, 3.8 metres high and almost symmetrical, with a crisp central spillway.

Uppermost and largest of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 15 metres long and 6.8 metres high, an early Home Ministry public work.

A late Meiji munamon gate in Azumino, Nagano, opening from the main house forecourt into the garden, its gently curved roof ridge decorated with a circle pattern.

An 1859 earthen rice storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, extended in 1900, whose closed west wall forms the western face of the Iida brewer's estate, with okiyane roofs.

An early Meiji pawn storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, with a pair of black-plastered earthen doors on its west front, namako tiling and a separate roof set above.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri house in Azumino, Nagano, 10 bays wide with a gable-end front, once roofed with stone-weighted boards and home to a sake-brewing family.

An early Meiji brewing hall in Azumino, Nagano, 16 bays long under a low wagoya-framed roof, whose chimney marks the east side of the Iida sake brewer's estate.

An 1875 earthen storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, whose southern end served as retirement quarters with its own privy, finished in tortoiseshell-pattern namako tiling.

A 63-meter late Meiji earthen wall in Azumino, Nagano, built on a stone base with posts every 1 ken and white plaster, enclosing the garden of the Iida estate.

The smallest building on the Iida estate in Azumino, Nagano: a Meiji miso storehouse of 20 square meters, its rafters sealed in white plaster above board-clad walls.

A 1914 sake brewery building in Azumino, Nagano, where the yeast starter was prepared, with a koji room at its north end and a Western-style truss roof.