Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 13 metres long, built over the entrance to the Tsudo ore mill of the mine.

The Akahadayama Motogama Large Kiln in Nara is a late Edo brick climbing kiln, 18 m long with 8 chambers; repairs from 2015 showed it was rebuilt at least twice.

The Akahadayama Motogama Medium Kiln, a 1951 brick climbing kiln beside the large kiln in Nara, has 5 chambers in 9.7 m and reuses old bricks in the Edo method.

This late Meiji wooden building at Akahadayama Motogama in Nara links house and kilns, with a latticed former workshop, a corner tea room, and a truss upstairs.

A two-storey storehouse of 1790 beside the Iioka main house in Uda, Nara, with a namako tile skirt, stepped-plaster doors and a trowelled lintel. Registered in 2010.

A late Meiji rice storehouse on the east edge of the Iioka homestead in Uda, Nara: 9.9 by 4.0 metres, dressed-stone base, namako doorway, plain plaster inside.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse in Uda, Nara, 19 by 11 metres, with a walled takabe gable on the south, a hipped north end and a six-room plan. Registered in 2010.