Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A three-storey timber townhouse on the old Hokuriku highway in Namerikawa, Toyama, rebuilt after the 1866 fire that destroyed Sewamachi. Registered in 2017.

Dairakuji Priests' Quarters at Imizu in Toyama was raised in the month after the 1869 port fire, pairing a sukiya reception hall with beamed farmhouse rooms.

Dairakuji Main Hall at Imizu in Toyama, built in 1879, uses the thick earthen dozo method of fireproof storehouses. Its plaster porch of 1889 rewards a close look.

Built in 1910 as the Fushiki Bank in Takaoka, Toyama, and registered in 1996, it was demolished in November 2025 after the Noto earthquake. Columns survive.

A 1934 timber town hall in Imizu, Toyama, registered in 2014, decorated with acanthus and phoenix reliefs by plasterer Takeuchi Genzo, now a museum of his work.

The former main building of Tanaka Elementary School in Namekawa, Toyama, built in 1936, is a 60-metre timber school with Art Deco motifs in ceilings and fittings.

This 47-square-metre earthen storehouse of about 1890 held a Fushiki family's textiles. Its bowed door lintel and black plaster dado won praise at registration.

Built about 1890 in Fushiki, Takaoka, this 408-square-metre merchant house hid storage in its roof void and a concealed upper passage. Registered in 1997.

At 79 square metres, this is the largest storehouse at the Tanada compound in Fushiki, Takaoka. Its door sits left of centre and has no fire door. Registered 1997.

The smallest of four registered buildings at the Tanada compound in Fushiki, Takaoka, this 20-square-metre storehouse kept the household's miso. Registered 1997.

Built in 1868 in Fushiki, Takaoka, this timber townhouse held to the older building grammar while the port went Western. Registered 1997. Exterior only.

Completed in 1928 at Yasui in Nanto, Toyama, this registered wooden house kept an unfinished second floor that leaves its roof frame and eaves levers open to view.

Built in the early Meiji era and registered in 2019, this small earthen storehouse in Nanto, Toyama turns a trowelled relief of waves and a turtle toward the lane.

A rice storehouse of about 1872 in Futakuchi, Imizu: a stone ground floor topped by a stacked-timber upper storey under a separate tiled roof. Registered in 2023.

A 40-meter board fence of 1872 wrapping the main house in Futakuchi, Imizu, with a guest gate on the street and wormholed ship planks by the garden. Registered 2023.

Built in 1872 in Futakuchi, Imizu, this azumadachi main house shows a vast gable of posts and tie beams, with lacquered timbers in its hall. Registered in 2023.

A late Taisho storehouse in Futakuchi, Imizu: plaster walls over a washed-mortar base, iron doors and a separate tiled roof, about 50 years after the main house.

The Aizanso Stone Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, was built in 1936 of local Shakudani stone, with iron doors and a steel roof truss. Registered in 2017 at Aizanso.

The Aizanso First Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is a corner storehouse of about 1916, closed to the street but for one door and plastered up under its eaves.

The Aizanso Kura Zashiki in Echizen, Fukui, is a 1928 storehouse with a hinoki reception room, washed-aggregate walls and scrolled steel brackets. Registered 2017.

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