Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1936 hilltop museum in Abashiri, Hokkaido by Tanoue Yoshiya: symmetrical plan, a red tower roof and geometric facade panels. Registered in December 2019.

Shaonkan, a 1922 wooden annex at Iai Gakuin in Hakodate, was registered in 2005. Its over-burnt brick plinth and banded sliding windows echo the main hall beside it.

The Iai Gakuin Auditorium in Hakodate, a 1935 Vories design registered in 2002, still seats about 600 on its original chairs for the school's morning worship.

This small wooden building in Hidaka Town, Hokkaido keeps two formal rooms salvaged in 1951 from a 1911 imperial lodging, under a coved coffered ceiling in hinoki.

Facing the Pacific in Hidaka Town, Hokkaido, this late Meiji house joins a Western reception room to two tatami rooms by a corridor turning a right angle.

A Meiji-era wooden office in southern Sapporo, built in 1887, honoring Edwin Dun, the Ohio rancher who founded Hokkaido's dairy industry from Makomanai in 1876.

The front gate of about 1919 to the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: a 2.5 m single-bay yakuimon with a gently swelling pantile roof and wicket doors at its sides.

A long Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built into the boundary wall, with a banded eave and round-cornered windows.

A 2-storey brick storehouse of about 1919 joined to the Endo main house in Susukino, Sapporo, with dark English-bond brick, broken pediments and a dentilled cornice.

A timber merchant's house of about 1919 in Sapporo's Susukino, with a Western parlour, staggered tatami suites and a brick north wall that doubles as the boundary.

The 161 m wall of about 1919 enclosing the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: rock-faced soft stone on three sides, brick on the north, with geometric capitals.

A tiny Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built against the boundary wall, with stone brackets and a root-cellar basement.

A single-storey brick warehouse of 1904 west of the office in the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa. Its long side faces Miyashita-dori; in 2001 it was a public hall.

A 1903 brick warehouse at the west corner of the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa, with king post trusses and a dentilled cornice; once a chair gallery, now a gallery.

A 2-storey timber office of 1913 at the front of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa: weatherboarding, a brick chimney and a pedimented gable with an arched window.

The largest and last of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa, built in 1913 at the centre of the block with pediments on both gables; now the Daisetsu Ji Beer Hall.

A 1910 brick warehouse on the station side of the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa, with stretcher bond walls and a two-tier dentil cornice; a free gallery since 1997.

The first of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa, finished in 1900: a brick warehouse at the north corner with a three-centred arch door, now a rehearsal hall.

A 1904 brick warehouse east of the office in the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa: gabled, tiled, laid in English bond with dark brick corner piers, a pair with No. 1.

The Isamigawa Bridge on the Former JNR Shihoro Line in Kamishihoro, Hokkaido, is a 4-metre concrete culvert of 1936 whose small arch follows a parabolic curve.

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