Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A concrete tank 3.34 metres across, wrapped in a patterned brick drum with the city waterworks emblem above its door. Pumping ended here in 1923; gravity took over.

Marutakagura Kajikazawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a gabled dozo storehouse said to have come from a Fuji River wharf town in 1915. It was listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Kissawa-gura in Suwa, Nagano, is a 710-square-metre dozo storehouse said to have been a Yamanashi spinning mill before its move in 1915. Listed in 2011.

Marutakagura Tenpo in Suwa, Nagano, is a honmune-zukuri farmhouse said to have been moved from Kiso Yabuhara in 1918. Registered in 2011; viewable from the street.

A 1961 three-storey Oya stone lacquer workshop in Narai, Shiojiri, Nagano, registered in 2013, built for Kiso lacquerware with a pedimented gable.

The Mampei Hotel Alps Wing in Karuizawa, designed by Kume Gonkuro and opened in 1936, pairs Alpine half-timber with Shinshu farmhouse detail. Still a working hotel.

Completed in 1929 on the Tenryu River and registered in 2025, this concrete power house in Nakagawa Village ranges tall arched windows along its generator hall.

A timber community hall in Shiojiri, Nagano, built by residents in three months in 1947 with local shrine timber, registered in 2014 and still in use today.

Minoya Dozo in Matsushiro, Nagano City, is a two-storey earthen storehouse of 30 square metres at the rear of a merchant plot, its white plaster now clad in iron.

West of the Miharaya shop, the 1872 North Storehouse dresses its street gable in namako-kabe and sets its windows high, so two floors read as three from the road.

West of Zenkoji temple, the 1872 Miharaya shop sets an open storefront beside a namako-kabe warehouse. This miso and soy-sauce brewer, founded in 1848, still works here.

South of the shop, the 1877 Middle Storehouse lifts a hipped third storey above a two-storey earthen body, anchoring the alley view along Uchiwaya-koji.

West of the South Storehouse, the 1877 West Storehouse is a two-storey gabled earthen store for miso, linked on its upper floor to the South Storehouse next door.

Adjoining the Middle Storehouse, the 1877 East Storehouse is the largest of the group: a long soy-sauce brewing warehouse with shuttered windows on its south gable.

On the southern edge of the grounds, the 1877 South Storehouse is a low earthen store whose eastern half held the koji room where the brewery's fermentation once began.

Completed in 1928 and registered in 2011, this Suwa shopfront hides a plain timber house behind a Western-looking arched screen. A cafe bistro opened inside in 2024.

Completed in 1939 above Matsumoto, this stone arch sabo dam curves on a 30-metre radius, stands 15 metres high, and still traps sediment. It was registered in 2024.

A c.1936 bracket-arm gate beside the main house entrance in Misato, Azumino, with single-plank studded doors, a shachi ridge ornament and angled sleeve walls.

The c.1920 back gate of the Miyazawa estate in Azumino: a kabukimon with a small roof on its crossbeam, inward-opening doors and sleeve walls, once used by horses.

A deep-eaved 1936 hip-and-gable house in Misato, Azumino, built for a mayor's and silk-reeling family, with carved transoms and a 32-mat hall for guests.

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