Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

At the ryokan Hanaya, the Hanaya Hotel Office Building of 1918 holds the reception desk below and the dining hall above, its north end forming the inn's entrance.

A tiny thatched watermill hut at Hanaya Hotel in Bessho Onsen, barely a ken and a half square, with chestnut posts that resist damp and a waterwheel on its west wall.

A Taisho-era plastered storehouse east of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. The ground floor stored goods; the upper floor, beams left exposed, became a guest room.

Built in 1916, the main bathhouse sits west of the reception at Hanaya Hotel. A single-storey timber hall, its raised vent ridge draws off the steam of a busy bath.

A two-storey timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel, with guest rooms below and an upper hall whose ceiling combines coffered panels with a flat mirrored expanse.

A Taisho-era timber wing at Hanaya Hotel, extended in 1949. The kitchen sits below, and a coffered banquet hall framed by corridors and alcoves sits above.

A 1918 detached wing by the bathhouse at Hanaya Hotel. Two guest rooms sit side by side, each an eight-mat room with an anteroom and a private bath, open to the garden.

A timber wing of about 1920 at Hanaya Hotel. Its two guest rooms take the linked-room shoin form, with wide verandas and private baths, notable for quality and scale.

An early-Showa covered walkway to the main building at Hanaya Hotel. Some 22 metres long under a gabled copper roof, log posts and curved beams form a sukiya-style link.

The 1918 main building at Hanaya Hotel, near the centre of the grounds. Both floors hold eight-mat guest rooms with anterooms and wide verandas, built with fine joinery.

An early-Showa covered walkway from the office wing to the large bath at Hanaya Hotel. About 18 metres long, open at the sides, bark-edged posts make a sukiya passage.

A guest wing of about 1950, south of the central hall at Hanaya Hotel. Its three rooms use prized timber, including black persimmon in the thresholds, around the alcoves.

Built in 1816 above Matsushiro in Nagano, this shrine links three halls under one tiled roof, its veranda carried on posts rising from the slope. Registered 2024.

On a hilltop above Matsushiro in Nagano, a sanctuary of just 3.4 square metres carries bracketing and a vase-strut gable sized for far larger halls. Registered 2024.

A late Edo gatehouse on the historic route through Matsushiro, Nagano City. Seven and a half ken wide, thatched under metal sheeting, registered 2005. No entry.

A farmhouse of about 1909 on a slope in the Iriyamabe valley east of Matsumoto, its tall upper floor built as one undivided silkworm room. Registered 1999. Private.

A late-Edo yakuimon gate in Matsushiro, Nagano. It is 3.6 metres wide, with asymmetric wing walls, a wicket door and lime plaster, and was registered in 2010.

A two-storey Edo-period building in Matsushiro, Nagano, where samurai household servants lodged. Three different street-side lattice windows; registered 2010.

A late-Edo earthen wall in Matsushiro, Nagano: 12 metres long and 1.8 high, plastered smooth toward the street and left open-framed within. Registered 2010.

An 1868 indigo dyer's townhouse moved to the Nakadana Onsen grounds in Komoro in 2002, reopened as a soba restaurant. Registered 2006; lunch needs no booking.

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