Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The brick portal of the Tenryu pit's man-car incline, where carriages took miners underground, eleven metres wide with a conical keystone, pilasters and wing walls.

Step inside Japan's only publicly walkable coal mine: a 180-metre brick-arched tunnel in Yubari, Hokkaidō, with a real coal seam to touch, vintage shearers, and an 1888 origin story.

Built in 1919 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, this 57-square-metre stone building housed the town's first bank until 1966. Registered as a cultural property in February 2002.

This 1928 timber relay station in Nanporo, Hokkaido, lodged around 550 travellers a year until a railway closed it in 1931. Registered in 2006; exterior only.

A 94-metre coal railway bridge of about 1945 in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, with a diesel locomotive still standing on its deck. Registered as a cultural property in 2009.

A 1938 rice granary built of Sapporo welded tuff at Takaoka in Ishikari, Hokkaido. Registered in 2024, it now houses the Higuchi Kiichiro Memorial Museum.

A 1911 timber rice granary at Takaoka in Ishikari, Hokkaido, registered in 2024. A single central post carries the ridge beam; the interior is not open to visitors.

Ginrinso Former Main Building in Otaru is a late Meiji herring mansion moved from Yoichi in 1938. Registered in 2023, it holds a six-room hall and a large shrine.

Kumagai Family Residence Main House in Hokuto is a late Edo townhouse registered in 2006. Its sheet-iron roof and restored earth floor show Donan building practice.

Grill Ginrinso in Otaru began as herring storage, became a fisheries museum in 1941, and now serves French food. Registered in 2023 for its plastered latticed walls.

A 77-metre soft-stone wall in central Sapporo, built in 1926 and registered in 2010 with the house, storehouse and gate. Its edo-kiri masonry shapes the street.

Koryuji Temple Memorial Tablet Hall in Hakodate, built in 1933, echoes the Main Hall roof and keeps parishioners' tablets on a timber floor and a concrete basement.

Koryuji Temple Kaizando in Hakodate, a plastered brick hall of around 1897, is the oldest building in the precinct and houses past abbots and the 500 arhats.

Koryuji Temple Konpira Hall in Hakodate, built in 1917 by Sawada Kichihei, enshrines seafarers' guardian deities beneath a stack of cusped and triangular gables.

Koryuji Temple Main Gate in Hakodate, an eight-legged gate of around 1910 by the fifth Shinoda Sokichi, bears some 207 carvings of dragons, lions and a phoenix.

Koryuji Temple Bell Tower in Hakodate, a copper-roofed Zen-style tower of 1922, holds a bell recast in 1954 after wartime loss, still rung daily at 6 and 9.

Koryuji Temple Water Basin Pavilion in Hakodate, a copper-roofed shelter of around 1917, has a dragon spout, carved strongmen and struts by Echigo carpenters.

Koryuji Temple Earthen Wall in Hakodate, a tiled plaster wall of around 1917, runs 53 meters beside the Main Gate, 3.7 meters high, its ridge laid in waves.

Koryuji Temple Firebreak Wall in Hakodate, a 154-meter brick wall of 1910, rises to about 7 meters on its east side and was built to shield the temple from fire.

Koryuji Temple Treasure House in Hakodate, a 1916 brick storehouse clad in plaster and clapboard with an exposed-brick entrance, keeps the temple's Nirvana painting.

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