Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Shiohara Family Residence Gate in Matsumoto is an early Taisho front gate, registered in 2004, with a ring-pattern ridge and board-and-plaster wing walls.

Early Meiji street-front shop of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a shop below and retirement rooms behind projecting eaves; listed in 2007 with its gate.

Early Meiji grain store at Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with long exposed beams and old stock notes on its walls. Listed in 2007, it now hosts piano concerts.

Early Meiji household storehouse east of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano; the smallest of ten listed in 2007, plain but for its carved doorway.

Early Meiji soy sauce storehouse of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, with a latticed street gable. Listed in 2007, it still presses mash and is on the free tour.

Late Edo two-storey brewing storehouse at Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano, near-square in plan, with 2 brick koji rooms added in late Meiji. Listed in 2007.

Early Meiji shop and home of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano: a 210-square-metre merchant front, listed in 2007 and still the brewery's miso and soy sauce outlet.

Late Meiji reception wing southeast of the main house at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with a garden corridor, an alcove room and an anteroom. Listed in 2007.

Early Meiji two-storey document storehouse at Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, with namako tiling, stepped plaster doors and black plaster trim. Listed in 2007.

Late Edo miso storehouse of Shioya Brewery in Suzaka, Nagano: 185 square metres of earthen walls, giant wooden vats and resident microbes. Listed in 2007.

Late Edo storehouse in the southwest corner of Shioya Brewery, Suzaka, Nagano, where soy sauce mash matures for one to two years. Plain and large; listed in 2007.

The Shinano Education Association center in Azumino, Nagano, is the old education hall of 1929 moved from Nagano City, symmetrical under a mansard roof with dormers.

The Shimaki Akahiko Lodging in Shiojiri, Nagano, an early Meiji wing of a house on the Zenkoji road, has one eight-mat room under a gable with a crest ornament.

A two-storey wooden Western-style hall built in 1938 in Iida, Nagano, with a mansard gable, geometric panels, dormers and clapboard walls, still in daily use.

A two-storey earthen storehouse from the Kurosu estate in Iida's old samurai quarter, rebuilt in the late Meiji era with reused chestnut posts and lean-tos.

A late Edo-period yakuimon gate, 2.4 metres wide, that once fronted the Kurosu residence in Iida's samurai quarter and now leads into an education association annex.

A two-storey earthen storehouse built in 1938 behind the Shimoina Education Hall in Iida, which once held school records dating back to the late Edo period.

Built in 1860 at the center of a Matsumoto village shrine, this open kagura hall has a deep hip-and-gable tile roof, a plaster dragon and a ritual hearth below.

The original main sanctuary of a Matsumoto village shrine, built in 1750 in the one-bay nagare style, with an openwork transom of rabbits and waves and a crest.

Built in 1790 and moved from a nearby hamlet to this Matsumoto shrine in 1915, this one-bay sanctuary shows a phoenix carved in the round and steeply curved beams.

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