Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Kogomedaira dam of 1931 in Nikko, Tochigi, a masonry gravity dam keyed into a gorge, is the uppermost of the Home Ministry era sabo dams on the Inari River.

The Sugita Sake Brewery Oya Stone Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, built around 1947 for sweet potato shochu, pairs lower Oya stone walls with timber above them.

The Sugita Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, is a late Edo brewing store moved in mid-Meiji, the only hipped roof of the four, joined to a neighbor.

The Sugita Sake Brewery Taishogura in Oyama, Tochigi, is a storehouse built around 1914 whose roof rests on a ladder-like frame of paired log beams, nearly as built.

The Sugita Sake Brewery Storage Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, is a late Edo earthen store hauled about 500 m around 1873, with an upper room once home to the toji.

The former barrel store of Daiichi Shuzo in Sano, Tochigi, a mid Meiji timber store in the north-east corner, has a hip-and-gabled back gate in its north lean-to.

The former granary of Daiichi Shuzo in Sano, Tochigi, a mid Meiji gatehouse on the street with a store and a grain room, gives the old family seat a dignified front.

The former rice storehouse of Daiichi Shuzo in Sano, Tochigi, a tall storehouse of 1864 beside the old granary, keeps half-log rub rails inside from its rice days.

The brewery storehouse of Daiichi Shuzo in Sano, Tochigi, a storehouse 39 metres long of about 1868, is where the main steps of sake brewing still take place.

The office of the Daiichi Shuzo brewery in Sano, Tochigi, a mid Meiji building joined to the storehouse, held a counting room, a boiler room and the brewer's rooms.

The Daini Shoten Shop in Tochigi City, a storehouse-style shop thought to date from early Meiji, faces the Reiheishi Kaido, kept low with old-style upper windows.

Takagi Kaikan in Nasushiobara, Tochigi, built in 1918 as the head office of Kuroiso's first bank, is faced in Ashino and Oya stone with a light segmental pediment.

Raised in 1891 by a Tochigi merchant dealing in sandal straps, this earthen-walled store stands behind the family shop on the old Nikko envoys' highway.

The Tanami Residence main house, by the Uzuma River in Oyama, Tochigi, is a large late-Edo farmhouse with a hipped tile roof and six-room plan. Registered 2014; private.

The Tanami Residence detached wing in Oyama, Tochigi is a late-Edo reception building with an alcove, display shelves, and a writing bay. Registered 2014; private.

A tiny household Inari shrine of 1926 stands in a corner of the Tanuma Residence in Ashikaga, a nagare-zukuri shrine in a copper-roofed zelkova shelter. Private grounds.

The Tanuma Residence front gate in Ashikaga is a formal single-bay yakuimon of 1935, set back from the old Reiheishi road with wing walls and a stone forecourt. Private.

The Tanuma Residence main house in Ashikaga was a village headman's home of mid-Edo origin, remodeled around 1894 into its tiled, gabled form. Registered 2006; private.

The Tanuma Residence outer wall in Ashikaga runs 84 meters along the old Reiheishi road, an exposed-post timber wall of 1935 joined to the front gate. Registered 2006.

Completed in 1928 on the Arasawa above Nikko, Tanzeyama Sabo Dam runs 40 metres across the gorge, its andesite face laid in diagonal courses. Registered in 2003.

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