Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

A 1933 sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 64 m long and 20 m high, whose curved training walls and angled weir turn the falling water. Registered in 2002.

On the second bailey of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, the 1915 kagura hall of Karasawayama Shrine offers a copper-roofed stage for sacred dance.

The worship gate of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, was built in 1883 at its founding, the oldest building on the mountain, with plain knotty pillars.

Crossing a moat of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, the 1924 sacred bridge of Karasawayama Shrine is reinforced concrete disguised as a stone bridge.

Around the main hall of Karasawayama Shrine in Sano, Tochigi, run the 1909 inner gate and 52-meter openwork fence, their diamond lattice framing the sanctuary.

At the summit of Karasawayama Castle ruins in Sano, Tochigi, the 1909 worship hall of Karasawayama Shrine opens on four sides beneath a graceful copper roof.

On the honmaru of Karasawayama Castle in Sano, Tochigi, stands the 1908 main hall of Karasawayama Shrine, a single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of Meiji design.

The Gankaen Front Gate is a mid-Meiji bracket-arm gate 5.5 meters wide in Ashikaga, with plastered side bays and 18 meters of wall that joins the old stable.

The Gankaen Storehouse in Ashikaga is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse of 21 square meters, the smallest at Gankaen, given a wraparound eave and made into guest rooms.

The Gankaen Club in Ashikaga is a long mid-Meiji stable joined to the Kojitei storehouse, now an earthen-floored reception room that is open to the rafters.

The Gankaen Guesthouse in Ashikaga is a mid-Meiji shoin wing moved from the main house around 1945, with a hipped tile roof and two tatami rooms and a veranda.

The Gankaen Kojitei in Ashikaga is a late Edo outer storehouse by the front gate, now tatami guest rooms, named for a Zen phrase and tied to novelist Dan Kazuo.

The Gankaen Main House is a late Edo four-room farmhouse in Ashikaga, enlarged with a second story and formal entrance in early Showa, now an inn's main building.