Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Annex of 1935, by Kume Gonkuro, wears a Japanese face with a karahafu carriage porch and many-gabled roof over his own seismic timber frame.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Main Building opened in 1893 as two storeys; in 1936 the ground was dug out to add an Oya stone floor below. Its lobby is open to everyone.

The Sano Church in Tochigi, a timber church of 1934, pairs a Gothic-style front of rose window and pointed arches with Japanese bearing blocks on the columns inside.

The former garage of the Horn residence in Nikko, Tochigi, a late Meiji building of stone below and shingled timber above in a bungalow style, is a restaurant.

The Hoto Upstream Sabo Dam in Nikko, Tochigi, a stone-faced gravity dam of 1952, holds back debris from Mount Nantai and enriches the view from the Irohazaka.

A rear gate, fence and tile shed of about 1907 at a Mibu estate in Tochigi: a 2.3 m yakuimon gate with a 30 m board fence and a small shed. Registered 2013; private.

A zelkova yakuimon gate of about 1907 on Rangaku-dori in Mibu, Tochigi: 4.9 m wide, with three-block brackets and carving. Registered 2013; visible from the street.

An earthen-walled storehouse of about 1907 in Mibu, Tochigi, with white plaster and a fire band under the eaves, renovated in 2010 and now lived in. Registered 2013.

The middle of three earthen-walled storehouses of about 1907 in Mibu, Tochigi, its northern half left open to the roof for storing grain. Registered 2013; private.

A 1912 single-story house in Mibu, Tochigi, facing the Nikko Nishi Kaido, with cranes carved on its porch gable and openwork transoms. Registered in 2013; private.

An earthen-walled 2-story storehouse of about 1907 in Mibu, Tochigi, once used as a bank's document store, with stepped earthen shutters. Registered 2013; private.

A Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamato-chō, Tochigi City, this late-Meiji black-plastered earthen-walled storehouse stands along the historic Reiheishi Kaidō highway. Paired with the neighbouring Kezuka Paper Store, it forms one of the most distinctive views in the "Little Edo" Kura no Machi district and still operates as a working furniture shop today.

Ashikaga's 1930 waterworks office, timber-built with French tiles and dormers, overlooks the Watarase River. A guest room was added in 1934 for an imperial visit.

Built in 1930 at Ashikaga's Midoricho plant, this small concrete chamber received water pumped uphill and passed it to the reservoir, where gravity took over.

Completed in 1930, this concrete tank of about 60 by 27 metres lies buried under turf on an Ashikaga hilltop and still feeds the city below by gravity alone.

Built in 1903 as a middle school main building, Moka High School Memorial Hall keeps its weatherboarding and sash windows, and was lifted whole for a new foundation.

Moka City Kubo Auditorium, a 1938 timber school hall by Endo Arata, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright. Twin towers, a low balcony, Tochigi's first registered building.

This early Taisho gate in Ashikaga screens the office entrance on one side and doubles as the storehouse forecourt on the other, linking three registered buildings.

Built in 1891 for an Ashikaga silk dealer, this two-storey shopfront keeps granite-dressed window sills and was hauled four metres back in 1978. Registered in 2005.

A 35-square-metre earthen-walled storehouse of the early Taisho era in Ashikaga, with a stone-faced base and clapboard on its two weather sides. Registered in 2005.

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