Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Ashio Copper Mine Telephone Museum in Nikko, a 1951 exchange at the mine that had Japan's first private telephone in 1886, looks like a modern house of its day.

Built in 1924 behind the family shop in Kauemon-cho, Tochigi City, this two-storey house glazes the whole south face of its upper verandah. Registered in 2004.

This 1924 shop on the old Nikko Reiheishi road in Tochigi City raises a tuff-stone gable above its roofline as a fire wall, an udatsu in stone. Registered 2004.

Oldest building on this Tochigi City merchant plot, an 1895 storehouse divided into a document store and a goods store, its carpenter named in ink. Registered 2004.

Ashikaga's Oya-stone mill of 1903, with arched windows and a double sawtooth roof, is the sole survivor of six model silk-throwing mills built under Meiji policy.

Built around 1907, the back gate of the Iizuka new residence is timber with a pantile gabled roof. Though at the rear, it is large and finely built.

Built of granite around 1907, the Iizuka new residence front gate has tile-roofed board fences on stone bases. Its tall single-stone posts signal the family's rank.

The Shintaku main house of the Iizuka residence in Bato, built around 1907, shows an early modern feel in its orderly plan and refined reception rooms.

The courtyard gate of the Iizuka new residence, built around 1908, links storehouse and main house, enclosing an inner garden behind openwork lattice fences.

A two-story dozo built in 1908 behind the Iizuka main house, this storehouse was plastered even over its timber for fire safety. It is now a loft-style guest room.

From the late Edo period, the Iizuka main residence front gate is the compound's oldest structure. The main house is gone, but this large munamon gate survives.

The Inari River Third Sabo Dam in Nikko (1921) runs 76 m straight across the valley; its broad 3.3 m crest shows how early dams were built to resist boulders.

The Inari River Tenth Sabo Dam in Nikko was built in 1923 at the mouth of a narrow gorge and enlarged in the Showa era, kept working through repeated rebuilding.

The Inari River Second Sabo Dam in Nikko (1920) is the oldest registered Inari dam, built of mortared stone after the First Dam washed away, with a rounded notch.

The Inari River Fourth Sabo Dam in Nikko (1921) is the lowest registered Inari dam at 3.6 m, framing a stepped view of the Second and Third Dams upstream.

The Inari River Sixth Sabo Dam in Nikko (1922) sits on andesite bedrock 2.8 km above the Daiya River and was built to ease the gradient from 9.9 to 5.4 percent.

An early Meiji yakuimon gate in Ashikaga, 2.9 meters wide, with thick crossbeams, a wicket door each side and plastered walls. Registered 2003; seen from the road.

An early Meiji timber barn in the corner of an Ashikaga estate, with a trapezoid lean-to cut to fit the lot and three walls in weatherboarding. Registered 2003.

An early Meiji two-storey house of 317 square meters, Ashikaga, with a formal entrance at one end and a weaving floor at the other. Registered 2003; now a playroom.

An early Meiji storehouse on the stone wall along the east edge of an Ashikaga estate, white-plastered, with a deep eave over its garden-side door. Registered 2003.