Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An early Meiji clay storehouse beside the front gate of the Shimanuki estate in Fukushima City: white plaster, namako tile base and a black fireproof shutter.

A mid-Meiji garden wall and side gate on the Shimanuki estate in Fukushima City, its street face in clapboard and plaster to match the main house. Registered 2013.

A 1933 two-storey timber farmhouse in Ishikawa, Fukushima, built on a T-plan with formal alcove fixtures and a 15-mat double-height reception room. Registered 2011.

A mid-Meiji single-storey soy sauce storehouse on a Fukushima estate, 9.1 m by 5.3 m, with walls left at the middle plaster coat and chestnut posts in rough clay.

A mid-Meiji storehouse moved in the early Showa era to the west edge of a Fukushima estate, with a cut-stone base, a namako-kabe skirt and a trowelled family crest.

A small late Meiji storehouse for papers on a Fukushima estate, 6.4 m by 3.6 m, with a namako-kabe tiled skirt, a black plaster band and a sheltered west door.

The Taketo Main House behind an Aizuwakamatsu bamboo merchant's shop is an early Meiji home with bark-edged posts and a bamboo lintel, now a café and small museum.

The Taketo Zashikigura in Aizuwakamatsu is an 1823 earthen storehouse with a tatami parlor, low joist ceiling and shallow alcove, older than the merchant's arrival.

The Taketo Takegura in Aizuwakamatsu is a 1785 earthen storehouse moved in 1862 to hold a wholesaler's bamboo, with an igeta mark in plaster and sloping beams.

The Taketo Store in Aizuwakamatsu is an 1841 bamboo merchant's shop with an earthen floor, a raised counting room and lifting shutters, registered in 2019 and open.

Totsuna Bridge at Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima, a steel arch of 1915 registered in 2020, is among Japan's oldest steel arch bridges, with a delicate profile.

The new building of Nakamuraya Ryokan in Iizaka, Fukushima, a storehouse-style inn of about 1896, has three floors of equal size, its upper two tall and open.

The main building of Nakamuraya Ryokan in Iizaka, Fukushima, a late Edo storehouse-style inn of three storeys with a smaller top floor, stands out in the town.

The Anglican Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Koriyama, Fukushima, a concrete church of 1931, shows fine Gothic design in its tower and scissor-truss roof.

The Wakamatsu Sakaemachi Church in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, a timber Gothic church of 1911 on a Latin-cross plan, has a spired tower and a Vories model.

The birthplace of bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo by Lake Inawashiro, Fukushima, a thatched farmhouse of 1823 where he lived until 16, is open at his memorial museum.

The Hayashi family house in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, a large two-storey Japanese house of 1927 under a run of gables, keeps three 15-mat guest rooms upstairs.

A sabo dam of 1948, enlarged in 1951, in the middle of Tsuchiyu Onsen, Fukushima, with coursed stone downstream and diagonal masonry upstream. Registered 2008.

A sabo dam near Tsuchiyu joining a 1951 prefectural dam with a larger national dam 66 m long and 15 m high, faced in coursed stone. Registered in 2008.

Built in 1957 on the upper Higashi Karasu River, the newest of the 15 Arakawa sabo dams: 67 m long, diagonal masonry, unbroken wing slopes. Registered 2008.

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