Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Nichirinsha in Azumino is a circular two-storey timber hall 13 metres across, modelled on the Uchihara barracks, completed in May 1945 and registered in 2009.

Nagano Holy Savior Church, a brick church of 1898 registered in 2006, is a fine small medieval-style chapel with a pointed doorway, a rose window and buttresses.

The Nagano Meijo Lees Storehouse, a late Edo store at a Chikuma sake brewery, still matures sake lees in what began as two buildings joined in the Meiji era.

The Nagano Meijo Rice Storehouse, a late Edo store at a Chikuma sake brewery, held brown and polished rice, with a waterwheel mill once working at its south end.

The Nagano Meijo Sake Storehouse, a late Edo brewing hall in Chikuma, splits washing, pressing and fermenting across 529 square metres, with a koji room above.

The Nagano Meijo Office, a 1916 timber building at a Chikuma sake brewery, greets customers with a curved gable porch and hides grey plaster and zelkova upstairs.

The Nagano Meijo Storage Warehouse, a late Edo storehouse in Chikuma, Nagano, uses sloping beams to lift a single-storey room high enough for tanks of finished sake.

The Nagano Meijo Nagayamon Gate, a late Edo gatehouse in Chikuma, opens a sake brewery onto the old Zenkoji Road, with a keeper's room in its plastered walls.

The Nagano Meijo West Storehouse, a late Edo storehouse at a Chikuma sake brewery, has held household goods for generations. Its plaster cornice faces the road.

The Nagano Meijo West Barn, a late Edo storehouse in Chikuma, Nagano, faces the brewery gate and was once its shop. Its earthen walls adjoin the lees store.

The Nagano Meijo East Storehouse, a late Edo store by the gate of a Chikuma sake brewery, was a carpenter's shed for mending vats. Its irimoya roof faces the road.

The Nagano Meijo East Barn, a 1907 storehouse at a Chikuma sake brewery, held a miso room and retirement quarters. Unlike its neighbours, it has a Western truss.

The Nagano Meijo Document Storehouse, an early Meiji strongroom at a Chikuma sake brewery, guards family valuables behind black plaster and stepped fireproof doors.

The Nagano Meijo South Storehouse, a 1921 bottling house at a Chikuma sake brewery, wraps an L-shaped plan around a brick chimney and spans a wide hall on log beams.

A late Edo single-storey plank storehouse at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, walled with boards dropped between square posts on a cut-stone base, with two rooms inside.

An outdoor hot spring pool of 1923 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, walled in four courses of local Ariake granite, still filled for walking baths each summer.

A square Meiji timber building at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino whose roof is split at the ridge: boards weighted with stones on the south, sheet metal on the north.

A tiny pyramidal-roofed hall of 1848 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, tied to the legend of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro healing his wounded soldiers in the hot springs.

A slim two-storey storehouse of 1854 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, moved here in the Meiji era: a plank store apparently coated in earth, typical of mountain areas.

A mid-Meiji two-storey guest wing at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, with an open south front, verandas on each floor and an attached bath. Walter Weston stayed in 1912.

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