Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1874 earthen storehouse of the thread wholesaler Teraoka Itoten in Sano, Tochigi, refaced around 1933 with an artificial-stone finish. Listed in 2019.

The red brick saran factory of Tochisen in Ashikaga, Tochigi, built 1913 to 1919, is a long gabled shed with a north wall lined by windows set in big stone frames.

The red brick print works of Tochisen in Ashikaga, Tochigi, built 1913 to 1919, spans 1,587 m² under six sawtooth roofs, with single stone lintels over its doors.

The brick boiler house of the Tochisen mill in Ashikaga, Tochigi, extended in 1941, keeps its Lancashire boilers and the black camouflage paint of the war years.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Kanrantei (Ryugu) is a 1921 two-storey pavilion above the hotel skating rink, with inner posts of naturally shaped timber and a corridor.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel New Building of 1904 hangs its upper floor from the roof truss on iron rods, leaving a column-free banquet hall of about 270 sq m below.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Tenbokaku is an open-sided 1921 pavilion on the edge of a bluff, with an exposed rafter ceiling, a nageshi beam and a corridor to Kanrantei.

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.