Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

Built in Sapporo in 1926 for women missionaries, this small three-storey timber house sheds snow off a steep flaring roof. It joined the national register in 1998.

Only the central bay of Hakodate Normal School's 1914 main building survives, moved and kept by its graduates. Its lantern tower won registration in 2000.

A 1935 reinforced-concrete hall in the precinct of Hokkaido Gokoku Shrine, Asahikawa, built as the Army 7th Division's memorial museum and registered in 2015.

Built in 1901 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this former Sapporo college classroom sets a pilastered, pedimented front against plain hipped wings.

Built in 1902 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this compact two-story brick library stack rewards a close look at its clinker base and stepped gable coping.

Built in 1902 by Chujo Seiichiro, this T-shaped timber reading hall wears two rooftop lanterns and windows crowned by alternating triangular and segmental pediments.

By Mankei Pond below Mount Soranuma, this 1928 log lodge was designed by Swiss architect Max Hinder at Prince Chichibu's wish. It sleeps up to thirty in Alpine style.

Inside the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden stands the former home of John Batchelor, the Ainu-studies missionary: a trim clapboard house of 1898, moved here in 1905.

In Hokkaido University's Tomakomai forest, this 1935 former specimen store joins a buttressed, chapel-like block to a barn-like wing with a gambrel roof and dormers.

The office of Hokkaido University's Botanic Garden is the east wing of the old zoology-botany hall of 1901, moved here in 1942, its entrance crowned by a pediment.

Furukawa Memorial Hall of 1909 was the forestry classroom of Tohoku Imperial University's agriculture college: a Renaissance timber hall with a mansard roof and turret.

In Nibutani, Biratori, the former Munro Residence was the anthropologist's own home and clinic, a three-story mansard-roofed clapboard house, now a research base.

A 1936 half-timbered mansion in central Sapporo, built as the new wing of the Mitsui villa and the governor's residence since 1953. House and garden are free.

This 1928 timber store at Nakashibetsu in eastern Hokkaido lifts its floor 60 cm off the ground and breaks its roof into a gambrel pierced by four dormers.

Built in 1928 at Nakashibetsu in eastern Hokkaido, this small timber shed carries a square lantern turret windowed on all four faces. Registered in 2009.