Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Showa shed in Azumino, Nagano, bent into an L to close the southwest corner of the Iida estate, white-walled toward the road and open toward the grounds.

A late Meiji gatekeeper's lodge in Azumino, Nagano, topped by a smoke-vent roof and registered together with the earthen wall and kabukimon gate beside it.

A dry-stone check dam of c.1884 in Kuwabara, Chikuma, Nagano. Just 3.8 m high, it leans back at a 1:1.6 slope and runs a 7.2 m stone apron below to steady the bed.

The widest of four Meiji check dams on the Izawa River in Chikuma, Nagano. Only 3.7 m high but 35 m across, its spillway uses big blocks and its wings small ones.

The lowest and smallest of four Meiji check dams on the Izawa River in Chikuma, Nagano. Built under Home Ministry works, its crest sags like a slack rope.

Standing north of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this mid-Edo board-walled store of 64 square metres sits on its own axis and may be the oldest building here.

Set against the east wall of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo well drops about 6 metres through stacked stone under a later timber canopy.

Facing the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this late Edo gate is a yakuimon 5.1 metres wide, with plank doors, a side wicket and a gently curved gabled roof.

Built in the early Meiji era north of the rice store at Imai in Okaya, this 46 square metre timber store has two-bay doors on both floors and an open canopy.

Backed by woodland at the north of the estate in Okaya, this Meiji sawing shed of 40 square metres braces three sides and leaves its south front wholly open.

Built in 1789 north-west of the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.

Built in 1772 beside the old Nakasendo at Imai in Okaya, this single-storey house of 450 square metres sets a formal entrance bay before the gable-entered main body.

Set along the channel on the western edge of the estate at Imai in Okaya, this Meiji watermill hut of 7.3 square metres rises two boarded storeys under a gable.

Standing before the main house at Imai in Okaya, this Meiji inner gate is 2.1 metres wide, roofed in copper and joined by plastered walls to house and front gate.

Built in 1861 beside the main house at Imai in Okaya, this two-storey storehouse of 33 square metres has thick earthen doors and a raised roof of split stone.

Facing south from a stone platform at the north-west of the estate in Okaya, this one-bay household shrine of 1.1 square metres keeps a canopy over its front.

The Iwadare main house in Shiojiri, Nagano, a honmune farmhouse of 1836 with a crest ornament on its gable front, is valued as a dated example of the style.

The office of the Ueda silkworm egg cooperative in Nagano, built around 1917 with a pedimented front, recalls the silk city that shipped 220,000 boxes of eggs.

The Anglican church of St Michael and All Angels in Ueda, Nagano, built in 1932, is a timber church in the Japanese style with paper-screened windows.

The No. 5 check dam on the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, a dry-stone dam of 1887, 18 by 7.8 metres, is one of the Home Ministry dams that tamed the basin.