Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Inamiya altar shop in Takaoka, Toyama, a small timber shop of 1905, has a distinctive front with a large arched window framed in cast-iron scrollwork.

The Ushijima Lock in Toyama City, a small concrete lock of about 1934 with timber mitre gates, regulates water between the Fugan Canal and the Itachi River.

The shop storehouse of the Ozawa family in Namerikawa, Toyama, a black-plastered late Meiji store of kimono merchants, has local snow-splitting tiles on its ridge.

Katsurayu in Johana, Toyama, a former bathhouse of about 1930 in three wings, has a copper-clad Western-style front that brightens the old temple town.

The Kamidaki Power Station on the Joganji River in Toyama, built in 1924, is the lowest of three stations of the first prefectural power works, with three turbines.

A carved late-Meiji gate at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, three bays wide with one central opening and a coffered ceiling. Tradition ties it to Zuiryuji.

Built in 1906 at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, this small two-storey annex lodged the teachers of an early seminary for Soto Zen nuns. Two eight-mat rooms per floor.

A Soto Zen hall of 1661 to 1751 at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, built on the plain eight-room abbot plan. From 1902 it served as a classroom for trainee nuns.

An early Meiji merchant house on the old Hokuriku Highway in Namerikawa, Toyama, rebuilt after the fire of 1866. Registered in 2000, it keeps its shop counter.

A timber workshop of 1957 beside the Minatogawa at Himi, Toyama, built as igusa matting demand peaked. Its ground floor opens into the earthen warehouse next door.

A late-Taisho earthen storehouse on the Minatogawa at Himi, Toyama. Built as a bank rice store, later a depot for igusa rush matting. Its hoisting opening survives.

A late-Meiji workshop in Toyama, 92 m², where the Uchiyama servants worked, with a store for snow-screen materials and stepped side rooms; registered in 1998.

A pavilion-like well house of the late Meiji era in Toyama, 12 m², with three posts at each corner and capitals carved like bearing blocks; registered in 1998.

A fairly large wooden yakuimon gate of 1868 in Toyama with bending roofed walls, thatched until 1941; a rare Edo-period farmhouse gate, registered in 1998.

A wooden munamon gate of 1865 to 1868 in Toyama, opening toward land thought to have been the domain lord's hawking ground; registered as heritage in 1998.

An 860 m² farmhouse of 1868 in Toyama, with a great hall of long timbers, Meiji formal rooms and study, and suikinkutsu water chimes; registered 1998, open inside.

A long single-storey wooden wing of the late Meiji era in Toyama for a rickshaw, its pullers and charcoal, screening the work yard from the garden; registered 1998.

A small, plain wooden munamon gate of the late Meiji era in Toyama, leading to fields to the east and doubling as an accent in the garden; registered in 1998.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea house of 1927 in Toyama, built under a Yabunouchi tea master, moved away in 1941 and returned in 1981; registered as heritage in 1998.

A study of 1879 in Toyama turned into a tea room in the late Meiji era, attached to the storehouse, with unusually wide openings and coloured walls; registered 1998.