Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built about 1874 on a corner of the old Oshu Kaido in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima, this small earthen storehouse still keeps the lift-up shutters of a working sake shop.

Completed in 1930, this 176-square-metre earthen brewing hall in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima carries a Western king-post truss that leaves its upper floor free of columns.

Built between 1898 and 1912 in Aizuwakamatsu's former samurai quarter, this hipped-roof house hides a Japanese-Western reception room behind its gabled porch.

Raised in 1875, seven years after the siege of Tsuruga Castle, this earthen-walled storehouse holds paired reception rooms and ranks among Aizu's oldest.

Standing at the street corner of a private compound in Aizuwakamatsu, this 1900 storehouse turns a blank plaster wall to the road, its roof framed the old way.

Built about 1915, this merchant's house in Aizuwakamatsu has a glazed counting room below and three reception rooms totalling 35 mats above. Listed in 2019.

Built in 1886 as a goods store, this Aizuwakamatsu storehouse was later enclosed by the house built around it. Only its gable ends now face the corridors within.

Built in 1886, this Aizuwakamatsu storehouse holds a formal room with alcove, shelves and a study bay behind its thick walls, all in lacquered timber.

Built in 1886 and finished in the same black plaster as the shop beside it, this Aizuwakamatsu storehouse held goods on one side and the family altar on the other.

Built about 1930 at the east of this Aizuwakamatsu merchant compound, the detached wing looks onto the garden through a glazed veranda and changes finish by floor.

This 1914 shop storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu turns a black-plastered wall to the street and holds Ionic columns, lacquered timber and a Western room inside.

Twelve metres of brick on a cut-stone base, built about 1915 along the north edge of this Aizuwakamatsu compound, rising and dropping as fire and light required.

Built in 1908 in Shirakawa, Fukushima, this two storey storehouse holds a formal parlour finished in ebony. Registered in 2024, it is now the Fujita Memorial Museum.

A Taisho merchant house in Shirakawa, Fukushima, built for the Fujiya miso and soy sauce brewery. Its glazed front on the old Oshu Highway was registered in 2024.

The oldest of three Fujita buildings in Shirakawa, Fukushima, this late Edo storehouse was registered in 2024 and is now a gallery of the Fujita Memorial Museum.

Built in 1917 on the Ginzan Kaido in Aizuwakamatsu, this two-storey plastered rice store keeps stepped kakego-nuri doors and an exposed roof frame. Registered 2025.

A 1918 storehouse in Aizuwakamatsu whose upper room is a formal tatami parlour with a black persimmon alcove pillar and fine kumiko screens. Registered in 2025.

Two tiny 1888 shrines on one stone plinth in the Heishi estate, Fukushima City, one to a land deity, one to the Thirty-Three Kannon, together just 0.34 sq m.

An early Showa plank-walled granary in the corner of the Heishi estate, Fukushima City: posts 45 cm apart, four compartments, and doors made by removing a post.

A 13-by-6-bay Meiji farmhouse in Fukushima City with a monitor roof and silkworm-rack marks on its beams, the only Heishi building registered as a model of form.