Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1941 for a sawmill executive on Furano's main street, this low house uses local timber under a shallow hip-and-gable roof. Registered in 2024; not open.

Junseiji Main Hall, built in 1935 in the Hokkaido forestry town of Tsubetsu, pairs a plain gable roof with deep interior beams and a carved transom. Registered 2007.

The bell tower of Shogyoji in Akkeshi, Hokkaido, built in 1908, is an open tower one bay square with leaning posts and a coffered ceiling, beside the main hall.

Chemist Suginome Harusada built this Tudor-style Sapporo house in 1933. The city's first with central heating, it remains a home, viewable only from the pavement.

A brick school in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, rebuilt in 1954 after a fire with funds from a Mitsui colliery. Its 106-metre classroom range holds 36 rooms. Registered 2008.

A timber gymnasium of 1954 beside the brick Raijo school in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido. Its two-hinged trusses span the hall without columns. Registered in 2008.

Built in 1925 in Nemuro, Hokkaido, Seiryuji Hondo was registered in 2024 for the lions, dragons and phoenixes carved on its porch by Kesen carpenter Hanawa Kikuzo.

The Sapporo Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan, built in 1904 after a fire, has stone laid over a timber frame and Gothic details such as a rose window.

The back gate of the Abashiri Prison Museum in Hokkaido, built by inmates in 1919, is an English-bond brick wall with a segmental arch and copings of local tuff.

The back gate guardhouse of the Abashiri Prison Museum in Hokkaido, a hexagonal sentry box of 1912, has windows on all sides and a domed roof with a spear finial.

The Kagami Bridge entrance guardhouse of the Abashiri Prison Museum, a hexagonal post of 1912, has a door on one side and windows on five to watch every way.

The Kagami Bridge exit guardhouse of the Abashiri Prison Museum, a hexagonal sentry box of 1912 that faced its twin, has glazed sides and a domed, finialed roof.

The west gate guardhouse of the Abashiri Prison Museum, a hexagonal post of 1912 that checked tradesmen at the gate, has boarded walls and cloud-shaped trim.

The brick solitary cell of the Abashiri Prison Museum, built in 1912, has English-bond walls 0.4 metres thick, a barred anteroom and a boarded cell, a rare survivor.

The Hakodate Otemachi House, the Asano Cement office of 1918 in Hakodate, is a timber building with tower-like corners, concrete-block pilasters and a fanlight.

The Ferris wheel of Kodomo no Kuni in Hakodate Park, Hokkaido, built in 1950 and moved here in 1965, is Japan's oldest surviving wheel and still gives rides.

Hakodate Chuka Kaikan, a brick hall of 1910 built after the great Hakodate fire, is Japan's only meeting hall in the form of a Guandi temple, with a Qing interior.

The Hakodate YWCA Hall, built around 1928 as a private house, is a timber building with an asymmetrical form, decorated gables and a curved canopy over the door.

The Rusutsu Mountain Lodge of Hinoki Shinyaku in Hokkaido, a company retreat of 1972 with walls of brick and stone, is Shirai Seiichi's only building on the island.

Prairie House in Hakodate, the former Sada House of 1928, is a Wright-style house by Wright's pupil Tanoue Yoshiya, with deep eaves and an octagonal plan.

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