Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1873 and registered in 2012, this 35-metre plaster storehouse in Nagano City still brews sake each winter with Sai River groundwater. Tours by booking.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse on the Zenkoji Kaido in Shiojiri, home of a village headman, with a sparrow-dance gable; Emperor Meiji rested here in 1880.

An early Meiji honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Sasaga, Matsumoto: a wide gable with a sparrow-dance ornament, latticed front and a formal entrance, kept as built.

A salt merchant's house rebuilt in 1890 after Omachi's great fire, the town's first fireproof dozo-zukuri machiya, with a beamed doma now part of Chojiya museum.

A late Edo storehouse range behind Omachi's salt merchant house: a document store with pickle and salt stores added in 1869, the salt store keeping its brine trap.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster walls, a detached tiled roof and the family crest modelled in plaster on its west wall.

A late Edo single-storey shed in Obuse, Nagano, once a water mill, with a tiled gable roof swept down into a lean-to. It ends a roadside row of 3 buildings.

A late Meiji silk-raising building in Obuse, Nagano, enlarged under Taisho. Its 2 tall tiled wings carry raised ridge vents and large windows. Registered in 2011.

A late Edo farmhouse in Obuse, Nagano, 23.4 m long, with a thatched hipped roof and a tiled east wing. Its four-room plan grew a guest suite. Registered in 2011.

A one-room guest parlor of 1916 in Obuse, Nagano, linked to the main house by a covered passage, with an alcove, a sunken hearth and a boat-hull ceiling in 18 m2.

A long, narrow outbuilding of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, 13.3 m by 1.8 m, holding an outdoor toilet, a charcoal shed and a work shed side by side. Registered in 2011.

A single-storey barn of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster over weatherboards and a door onto the inner yard, part of the compound's front. Registered 2011.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse on the road frontage in Obuse, Nagano, left at its clay coat, whose north doorway has a fire door, a timber door and a lattice door.

The Fujiya Ryokan in Nagano, built in 1924 by the family that ran the Zenkoji post town's official inn, is a timber building with a Western tiled front.

The Bridal Senka Mimura Shop in Suwa, Nagano, a timber shop of 1929 with a geometric Western-style front, shapes the street with the Mimura shop next door.

The Exhibition Hall of the Furuta Akira Memorial Museum in Shiojiri, Nagano, is an early Showa storehouse with namako walls below and wide glazed rooms upstairs.

The gate of the Furuta Akira Memorial Museum in Shiojiri, Nagano, an early Showa bracketed gate with flanking walls, keeps a traditional right-angled approach.

The corridor of the Furuta Akira Memorial Museum in Shiojiri, Nagano, an early Showa link on sloping logs, is lined with slanted glass doors in a light sukiya style.

Built around 1875 in the estate's northeast corner, this one-storey plastered storehouse in Suzaka has board cladding on its street side that runs into the wall.

Built in 1875 by a former Suzaka domain finance officer, this two-storey house keeps a samurai-style parlour with alcove and shoin bay. It is now an inn guest wing.

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