Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1908 earthen-walled shop storehouse on the old Oshu Kaido in Koori, Fukushima. Built by a cocoon dealer, it keeps its suriage-do shutters and a cocoon loft above.

At the end of a Fukushima hot spring village stands a thatched inn of 1871, still trading, its hearth room open to blackened beams, the source said to rise below.

Built in 1820 as the priests' quarters of this southern Aizu temple, it keeps a farmhouse plan under a face that no farmhouse would show. Listed in 2001.

Ten square metres built in 1776, this is the oldest building in the temple precinct: deep eaves on extended purlins, square columns and simple bracket sets.

Built in 1844 by a carpenter from Echigo, the main hall of this Soto Zen temple in southern Aizu keeps the tall proportions of late Edo work. Listed in 2001.

A tiny household guardian shrine at the Sasa Masamune sake brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1886, it was one of two buildings spared by the June 2026 fire.

The mash-preparation storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built around 1917 and registered in 2021, it was destroyed in the June 2026 fire.

The street frontage of the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima: a yakui-mon gate of about 1927 and a 35-meter wall, spared by the June 2026 fire.

The storage building at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1925, this two-story storehouse ran eighteen bays long. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

The shop-residence at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A timber house of the early Meiji era, it held the family's shop and home. Burned in June 2026.

The pressing house at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1917, this storehouse separated sake from lees. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

The document storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A small 1917 storehouse, its gable bore the family trade name. Lost in June 2026.

The yeast-starter storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built around 1925, this building raised the seed mash. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

Built in 1873 in Fukushima City, this thatched farmhouse turns a stepped kabuto gable to the east and a hipped irimoya to the west. Registered nationally in 2013.

Added in 1932 as retirement quarters for the head of the Sato household in Fukushima City, this annexe holds an eight-mat room with a toko alcove and shoin window.

Raised in 1875 in Fukushima City, this two-storey earthen storehouse guarded the household's deeds and ledgers behind thick clay walls under white lime plaster.

A 1954 sabo dam on the Shionokawa near Tsuchiyu, 47 m long and 15 m high, faced on both sides in diagonally laid kenchi stone over rubble concrete. Registered 2008.

Built in 1956 where the Shionokawa meets the Arakawa near Tsuchiyu, this 16 m sabo dam, tallest of the 15, has a thick 3.0 m crest. Registered in 2008.

Completed in 1925 at the head of the Arakawa fan in Fukushima, a 74 m stone-faced sabo dam with earth wings and a sub-dam, the first core dam of the works.

This late Meiji kurazashiki at Motomiya packs into 43 square metres the painted panels and choice timbers of the main villa beside it. Listed in 1996.

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