Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Step into the Yudanaka Station Old Building, a 1927 wooden depot in chalet form with Stick-style detailing that has welcomed travelers to Nagano's hot spring resorts for nearly a century. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 2005, it now serves as Kaede no Yakata, a free community space at the gateway to the Yudanaka-Shibu onsen district and Shiga Kogen.

Yokoyu River Dam, a 1944 sabo weir at Shibu Onsen, Nagano, fills the gap between two Home Ministry dams; at 3.8 m it is the tallest of eight and has a wing channel.

Yokoyu River No. 1 Dam, a 1938 concrete sabo dam faced in mortared stone, 48 m long and 3 m high, is the lowest of eight registered dams below Shibu Onsen, Nagano.

Yokoyu River No. 51 Dam, a 1925 Home Ministry sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is 52 m long, only 1.8 m high and faced with rough fieldstone. Registered in 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 50 Dam, a 1925 sabo weir beside the Wago Bridge in Shibu Onsen, Nagano, has a narrowed spillway between steep squared-stone corners, listed 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 57 Dam, a 1927 Home Ministry sabo weir above Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is the longest of the eight at 58 m, with a gentle upstream and steep lower face.

Yokoyu River No. 3 Dam, built in 1936 right below the Kurokawa Bridge at the entrance to Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is a 40 m stone-faced concrete sabo dam, listed 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 39 Dam, built in 1924, is the oldest of the eight sabo dams at Shibu Onsen, Nagano: a 3.6 m weir with a lower tier fused to its downstream face.

Yokoyu River No. 2 Dam, a low 1937 sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is faced with evenly sized river cobbles and forms part of a channel-works scheme, listed 2021.

The Momoyama Bath of the Yorozuya inn at Yudanaka Onsen, Nagano, built in 1951 to designs by Okitsu Kiyoshi, has a cusped-gable entrance and a temple-style frame.

Built about 1887 for a family of doctors, this Nagano farmhouse tucks an examination room and waiting room off its earth floor beneath a silkworm-style vented ridge.

An earthen storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with a lean-to extended into a rear gate and an iron canopy on its east side. Registered 2001.

This 25-meter gatehouse of about 1887 closes the south side of a Nagano doctor's estate. Its roof steps down midway and its heavy doors open inward. Registered 2001.

An 18-meter roofed earthen wall of about 1887 around the garden of a Nagano doctor's estate, plastered on one face and post-and-panel on the other. Registered 2001.

A 14-square-meter storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with an earth-floored ground level for miso and carefully framed openings. Registered 2001.

The worship hall of Amenohinadori-no-Mikoto Shrine in Tottori, built in 1913, has a porch with a coffered ceiling and traditional layered gable pendants.

The main hall of Amenohinadori-no-Mikoto Shrine in Tottori, moved to its hilltop in 1913, is a small nagare-style hall with carved struts of modern flair.

The Iida house in Shikano, Tottori, a late Meiji townhouse (1898 to 1912) moved out to a farming village, keeps its bracketed eaves and its old lift-up door.

The Ikuta family house in the mountains of Nanbu, Tottori, built around 1902, pairs bold beams over its earth floor with a fine main room of choice timber.

The main house of the Ishio merchants in Shikano, Tottori, from the late Edo period (1830 to 1868), fronts the old road with fine lattices and carved brackets.

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