Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A tiny late Edo shrine to the mountain god at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, set on a carved boulder, its shingle roof and full-scale joinery shrunk to miniature size.

A late Edo clay storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, moved to the Nakamura homestead in 1887. Its northern half is a miso store, a type common in central Nagano.

Built in 1820, this two-story clay storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, has a separate okiyane roof, ushibari and noboribari framing, and walls left at the middle coat.

A late Edo farmhouse on high ground above Minami-Otari Station in Otari, Nagano, with a hipped thatched roof under metal, a ridge vent and an indoor stable.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Azumino, Nagano: 243 square meters under a gabled pantile roof, six rooms around a 9-tsubo oe, and many sashigamoi lintels.

Built in 1903 beside the Nakamura main house in Otari, Nagano, this storehouse has an okiyane roof, mortar walls scored like stone and a kakego-nuri door upstairs.

Built in 1887 on the Nakamura homestead in Azumino, Nagano, this barn served silkworm rearing and rice polishing, its walls and eaves sealed in clay against fire.

A Taisho-era munamon gate and fence in Azumino, Nagano, linking the main house to the front storehouse and dividing forecourt from inner yard, a Chushin pattern.

A 1933 reinforced concrete Anglican church on the old Zenkoji Road in Chikuma, Nagano, registered in 2023, with buttress-style piers and round-arched windows.

The Japan Crane Association Nagano Branch Museum in Nagano City is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that preserves the former Ikeda Police Station, originally built in 1893 during the Meiji era. Discover this charming two-story Western-style wooden building featuring a hipped-roof entrance porch and exquisite lace-like barge board decorations that showcase the unique beauty of Japan's pseudo-Western architectural tradition.

A 1932 timber Anglican church in Iiyama, Nagano, registered in 2017, with a bell turret, pointed-arch windows and tatami seating laid from the very start.

Okaya Saint Barnabas Church, an Anglican church of 1928 in Okaya, Nagano, has a south front like a line of mountain peaks, temple-style ornament and tatami seating.

Matsumoto Holy Cross Church, an Anglican church of 1910 near Matsumoto Castle, has a steep red-tiled roof, a bell tower and a Gothic interior with local touches.

Nozawa Onsen Lodge in Nagano, an acorn-shaped timber ski lodge of 1969 by Yoshizaka Takamasa and Atelier U, wraps split-level rooms round a spiral stair.

Discover the Nonaka Family Residence Main House in Matsushiro, Nagano — a late-Edo period samurai dwelling once occupied by a district magistrate, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2006.

Located in Matsushiro, Nagano City, the Main Hall of Baiou-in is the central building of a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1672 by the Sanada family to honour Lady Ukyō, a concubine of Sanada Nobuyuki, the first lord of the Matsushiro Domain. After damage in the great Zenkōji Earthquake of 1847, the single-storey wooden hipped-roof hall with a six-room hōjō plan was rebuilt in 1861. It faithfully expresses the character of late-Edo regional Sōtō Zen architecture and was registered, together with its temple gate, as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The temple is also known for an unusual statue of Gyoran Kannon riding a carp and a monument to the children's song 'Mite Gozaru.'

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Front Gate in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a Showa-era roofless kabukimon of two braced posts joined by a beam, 4 metres wide.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a two-storey earthen storehouse raised in 1933, begun by one generation and finished by the next.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a two-storey earthen storehouse of 1879 with tiles in a hexagonal joint pattern.

The Hatakoshi Family Residence Main House in Matsumoto, Nagano, is a honmune-zukuri farmhouse of about 1748, fronted by a symmetrical west gable and ridge ornament.

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