Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Sasazu Bridge in Toyama, a Melan-type concrete arch of 1941 where the Hida road crosses the Jinzu River, spans 65 metres, the third-largest span before the war.

The Sano Family Residence Storehouse No. 1 is the north end of four storehouses built in a row after Takaoka's 1900 fire to form a firebreak behind the house.

Built in 1900 after the Takaoka fire, the Sano Family Residence Main House is a large dozo-zukuri townhouse of black plaster and copper shutters, now a restaurant.

Built around 1900 in the courtyard behind the main house, the Sano Family Residence Tea Room is a 12-square-meter copper-roofed tea room of a Takaoka merchant.

Built around 1900, the Sano Family Residence Furnishings Storehouse has two fire doors on its north wall to seal a passage and even a plastered-over front eave.

Built around 1900 beside Storehouse No. 1, the Sano Family Residence Storehouse No. 2 has a fire-door entrance, a small fireproof window and a kuramae front.

Built around 1900, the Sano Family Residence Firewall is a free-standing brick wall 5.6 m high and 25 m long, with its pier and coping also made of brick.

The largest of four storehouses, the Sano Family Residence Miso Storehouse of about 1900 meets a brick firewall and has a sliding fire door, which is rare.

The Saburomaru Distillery in Tonami, Toyama, a converted timber factory moved here around 1954, is the oldest whisky distillery in Hokuriku, in use since 1952.

The Sawada family house in Takaoka, Toyama, an early Taisho house moved from Inami in 1951, is well loved for its domed tower and Western front with Japanese rooms.

The Shakusenji Cylindrical Diversion Tank in Kamiichi, Toyama, is a concrete cylinder of 1954 that splits river water between two banks at 0.51 to 0.49.

The Shogawa Goguchi Weir in Tonami, Toyama, is a concrete weir of 1939 with ten radial gates that joined the river's scattered intakes for irrigation and power.

The main house of Johana Iori in Nanto, Toyama, is a townhouse of about 1905 in the temple town of Zentokuji, with bracketed eaves and wing walls typical of Johana.

The storehouse of Johana Iori in Nanto, Toyama, a plastered two-storey storehouse of the mid Meiji period, has door and window frames shaped like torii gates.

Built in 1928 for the Johana silk producers' association in Nanto, Toyama, this timber building wears a scratch-tile front that only looks like brick. Open today.

Smallest of four registered buildings at Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama, this prewar Showa storehouse hangs iron doors in a torii-shaped frame of black lime plaster.

Built in 1900 and shifted on its frame around 1951, the West Building of Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama carries a plaster cornice marking local teahouse architecture.

At the north-west corner of the Shofuro site in Nanto, Toyama, this prewar storehouse was listed for one thing above all: what its walls do for the street.

Largest of four registered buildings at Shofuro in Nanto, Toyama. Built in 1900, its fourteen guest rooms were each detailed differently, two by Kanazawa carpenters.

An 1855 earthen-walled storehouse in Namerikawa, Toyama, that outlived the 1866 fire. White and black lime plaster, torii-frame windows. Registered in 2017.

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