Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Yunoshimakan's three-storey 1931 timber guest wing in Gero, Gifu, with rooms staggered along the south front for the view and a third-floor lookout. Registered 2010.

A 1931 timber corridor linking the entrance and main building of the Yunoshimakan inn in Gero, with an exposed-roof ceiling, red walls, lattice and cedar bark.

Taisho-era earthen storehouse beside the Ryokan Kaminaka in Takayama, plastered with a washed-mortar base. Each floor opens into the inn, so it has no stair inside.

Mid-Meiji inn building in Takayama with a karahafu canopy over the entrance and projecting lattices on both floors, its interior finely worked; still a ryokan.

A 43-meter dry-stone sabo dam built in 1921 above the Kamioka mining town, shielding the works from debris flows after the deadly 1920 disaster. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hida, Gifu.

A 1921 dry-stone sabo dam in a Hida ravine, registered as cultural property in 2019. Its hand-laid stones shielded the Kamioka zinc mine that powered modern Japan.

An early Showa two-storey house in Kasamatsu, Gifu, built by a Kyoto carpenter for a silk-farming family, with a coffered altar-room ceiling and stained glass.

An early Showa two-storey storehouse in Kasamatsu, Gifu, raised on a tortoise-shell stone base with heavy clay shutters and registered in 2017 for its streetscape.

Early Showa gate and 18-meter wall of the Wada house in Kasamatsu, Gifu: black plaster toward the street, bamboo and cedar bark toward the garden. Registered 2017.

An 1872 clay storehouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai brewery on the Seto River, square in plan, half earthen and half timber floor, under a stepped okiyane roof.

The 1881 brewhouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: at 133 square meters the largest of its clay storehouses, with south-facing doors on the Seto River.

Late-Edo townhouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery, moved here in 1904, with deep eaves, a bracketed pent roof, varied lattices and an open-beamed doma.

An 1864 clay storehouse closing the south end of the Hourai brewery's row on the Seto River in Hida Furukawa, with a king-beam roof frame and boarded east skirt.

A 1934 guest pavilion at Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: clay storehouse walls, a stone-effect mortar face to the river, tatami below and Western room above.

Built in 1804, the oldest of six registered buildings at Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: a clay storehouse on the Seto River with heavy doors and okiyane roof.

The Aitai Bridge of 1729 in Ebino, Miyazaki, a single stone arch, carries a water channel and the old road to Hitoyoshi side by side on a double ring of stones.

The Aoki Bridge in Tomiyoshi, Miyazaki City, is a stone single-arch bridge completed in 1925 during the Taisho era. Although modest in scale at just 9.5 meters in length, its precisely cut ashlar masonry and finely assembled single-layer arch testify to the high craftsmanship of local stonemasons. It was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

A 1922 two-storey brick warehouse built by a cedar-trading family in Aburatsu, Nichinan, saved from auction by 31 local backers and now open free as a town hall.

The stone bridge and moat walls of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, of the early Meiji period, include an arched bridge of ten slabs of local Obi stone.

The stone fence of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, built in the early Meiji period, runs 64 metres in finely cut stone around the sacred precinct.