Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

At the southwest corner of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo kura stored grain in two rooms and anchors the storehouse rows running north and east.

On the street front of the Tanaka estate in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo single-storey kura links the Front Gate to the Rice Storehouse in an unbroken white wall.

Built around 1895 next to the Reception Hall in Suzaka, Nagano, this 20-square-metre bathhouse pairs a bath with a small sitting room under carefully finished eaves.

Tamayorihime Shrine Worship Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, dated 1854, climbs in three floor levels toward the main hall under two crossing hip-and-gable roofs.

Tamayorihime Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a late Edo three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with plain funahijiki blocks and curved beams. Registered 2014.

The Munakatasha Worship Hall and Main Hall Shelter at Tamayorihime Shrine, Nagano, is a mid-Edo thatched hall whose front room faces a small shrine behind a lattice.

Tamayorihime Shrine Munakatasha Main Hall, a 1693 one-bay shrine in Matsushiro, Nagano, is only 0.5 square meters yet has full brackets, veranda and carvings.

The Chuo Printing building in Okaya, Nagano, built in 1910 as the head office of the silk firm Katakura-gumi, has artificial-stone pilasters and brick walls.

Built in 1767 in the castle town of Matsushiro, Chōmyō-ji Hondō is a Pure Land Buddhist main hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2014, alongside the temple's sutra repository and main gate. Its richly carved transoms, refined bracket complexes, and elegant frog-leg struts make it a representative late-Edo Jōdo-shū main hall of northern Shinano.

The Tsuso Imai (Kanehira) Shrine Kagura Hall is an open-sided 1853 stage moved here in 1947 and re-roofed in tile, with its roof framing left exposed inside.

The Tsuso Imai (Kanehira) Shrine Kanehirasha, an 1833 sanctuary to Imai Kanehira, was never moved and has stacked karahafu and chidori gables and carved brackets.

The Tsuso Imai (Kanehira) Shrine Shinmeisha, a plain mise-dana shrine of about 1780, was moved twice and now stands empty, holding a small Sengensha sanctuary.

The Tsuso Imai (Kanehira) Shrine Tsusosha is an 1859 sanctuary moved here in 1947, with sharply curved shrimp beams, carved brackets and wave-pattern doors.

Nakazawa Tokei Honten on Nagano's Zenkoji approach is a timber building of 1924 whose washed-aggregate render imitates stone. It is still a working clock shop.

Built in 1857 in Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story earthen storehouse gives each floor its own doorway, and carries the independent placed roof typical of the district.

This three-story wing in Suzaka, Nagano, joins the shop by a covered passage. Its ground-floor reception rooms hold an alcove and writing bay, with bedrooms above.

Built in mid-Meiji Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story kimono shop has a black plastered upper wall, projecting eaves and a lattice window. Registered in 2016.

The oldest of the four registered Nakano buildings in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo storehouse kept the shop's silk stock behind thick stepped-plaster doors.

Completed in 1933 and registered in 2003, this scratch-tiled block at Matsumoto Fukashi High School carries pointed arches said to echo Tokyo's Yasuda Auditorium.

This 1934 hall at Matsumoto Fukashi High School doubles as a gymnasium, resting a steel-trussed pantile roof on concrete walls behind five pointed entrance arches.