Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 174-meter mid-Taisho wall of stacked Oya stone linking the gatehouse and outbuildings of the Onoguchi estate in Utsunomiya, with small openings on its west crest.

The oldest building on the Onoguchi estate in Utsunomiya: an 1825 two-story store clad in Oya stone, its door topped by a curved gable taken from the old main house.

A mid-Taisho single-story shed of stacked Oya stone beside the Onoguchi gatehouse in Utsunomiya, built to dry leaf tobacco, its doors facing inward. Listed in 1999.

An 1872 former sake store at the Onoguchi estate, Utsunomiya: timber clad in Oya stone, with a drip ledge and vertical corner stones. Its largest listed building.

A late Meiji compost shed of stacked Oya stone at the Onoguchi estate, Utsunomiya, with a truss-framed hip roof, stone canopies over openings and pine-motif windows.

The Onoguchi Nagayamon in Utsunomiya is an 1876 timber gatehouse clad in stone, with an arched wooden doorway and windows. Moved in the Taisho era; listed in 1999.

A late Edo storehouse in the southeast corner of the Onoguchi estate, Utsunomiya, moved in late Meiji: timber faced in Tage stone, with stepped eaves. Listed 1999.

A small timber kagura hall of 1937 beside the great stairway of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, on a low plinth with a hip-and-gable roof.

The 1937 reinforced concrete main buildings of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with timber eaves and wings said to echo the Phoenix Hall of Byodoin.

The 1937 timber office of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with a cusped-gable porch and a basement that makes its cliff side look two storeys high.

A small 1937 purification pavilion on the approach to Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, built like the shrine in concrete with a timber gabled roof.

Gashu Store stands east of Korai Bridge in Tochigi City: a late-Meiji earthen-walled shop in black lime plaster with a high stacked ridge and an outsized kagemori.

The annex of Kadoya Ryokan at Itamuro Onsen, Tochigi, a three-storey wing of about 1937, has Japanese guest rooms behind roughcast walls and sash windows.

The main building of Kadoya Ryokan at Itamuro Onsen, Tochigi, a three-storey timber inn of about 1919, has six-mat guest rooms and wooden railings of an old spa.

The Yusenkaku of Kadoya Ryokan at Itamuro Onsen, Tochigi, a guest wing of about 1952, uses curious woods, round windows and hexagonal windows in sukiya style.

Matsugamine Catholic Church in Utsunomiya, built in 1932 to a design by Swiss architect Max Hinder, is a concrete church faced with Oya stone under twin towers.

A late Edo samurai house in Nikko that opened in 1873 as one of Japan's earliest inns for foreign guests. Isabella Bird stayed here in 1878; her room survives.

A storehouse of 17 square metres beside a samurai house in Nikko, registered in 2014. Lime plaster, a stone base course and a roof set free above the walls.

Built between 1912 and 1918 for a hemp-spinning firm, this 55-metre stone storehouse in Kanuma pairs local Fukaiwa tuff with Oya stone above. Registered in 2014.

A 1932 mortared-stone sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 25 m long and 17 m high, with a deep spillway and triangular wing walls. Registered in 2002.

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