Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The annex of the Yamagata Aritomo Memorial Hall in Yaita, Tochigi, a Western house of about 1927 on his farm, has dormers, a pergola porch and a fireplace.

This 1909 stone warehouse in Tochigi City stored the hemp the Yokoyama family shipped by river barge. Its Kanuma tuff walls and roof trusses show Western influence.

Built in 1909 beside the Uzuma River in Tochigi City, this timber shop and house held a ramie wholesale business in one half and a family bank in the other.

At the far edge of a garden in Tochigi City, this small Taisho annex wears a half-timbered face over rooms that stay Japanese beneath Western ceilings.

Completed in 1910 opposite its twin, this Tochigi City stone storehouse held the Yokoyama family records. Brick eaves and two tones of stone mark its refinement.

Built in late Meiji as the Nikko summer house of F. W. Horn, who brought the gramophone to Japan, this villa is walled entirely in andesite from the Inari River.

Once the maids' quarters of an American trader's late-Meiji Nikko estate, this low stone building is coursed in Inari River andesite right up into its gable ends.

An early Meiji brewery dwelling in Oyama, Tochigi, registered in 2007. Matted rooms fill the east half, an earthen hearth floor the west, a chimney breaks the roof.

An early Meiji rice-polishing house in Oyama, Tochigi, registered in 2007. Alone of the three buildings here, it was listed for its role in the historic landscape.

An early Meiji bottling house in Oyama, Tochigi, registered in 2007. Perimeter posts set every half-ken carry a mezzanine and upper floor built for sacks and crates.

Steel bridge of 1914 over the upper Watarase at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 56 metres long, its girders carried on reused British wrought-iron trestles on stone bases.

Timber goods shed of 1912 on a stone platform at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, recalling the line's copper freight trains.

Red-brick store of 1914 for lamp oil at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, with corner pilasters and arched door and window.

Stone platform of 1912 at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, 109 metres long and still gravel-surfaced, the best preserved on the line.

Small timber parcel store of 1935 at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, where goods sent by train awaited collection by owners.

Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi: one of the line's largest timber stations, opened in 1912 at the heart of the copper mine.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long on granite abutments, among surviving Ashio mine company houses.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long, near the stream where the Ashio copper mine is said to begin.

Steel truss bridge of 1912 over the Watarase River at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 95 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, a rare Japanese-made Cooper truss.

Tsudo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi: a 1912 gateway station to the mining town, altered in 1936, with half-timbered gables.

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