Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

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.