Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gunma

A Meiji-period timber main building in Tamamura, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It once served as both a house and as a doctor's very own surgery in it too.

A Meiji-period main house in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. Its grounds meet the main street, yet the house is unseen from it; the family's looms stood elsewhere.

Tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway under the Gunma-Tochigi border, 362 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, with a brick arch and six refuges.

Discover the Ikaho Kanko Hotel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma. Built in 1929 as a Western-style hotel for foreign guests, this wooden three-story building with a five-tiered pagoda tower offers a window into early Showa hospitality and the resort town's international heritage.

A 1908 brick chimney at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, about 14 meters tall in English bond with a steel top, linked underground to the steaming room.

A 1908 work building at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, where rice was washed and steamed and sake was bottled, with a flue running to the brick chimney.

A 1909 brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with a koji room in its west lean-to and a wide interior now used for concerts, markets and exhibits.

An early Meiji farmhouse moved to Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, in 1900 as shop, office and home, with a wide earthen floor and a four-room grid plan.

A small 1908 plastered storehouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, built to hold license papers and ledgers, with a separate placed roof and plaster shutters.

A large 1908 earthen brewhouse at Imai Sake Brewery in Ota, Gunma, with cedar-boarded lower walls under white plaster, where the yeast starter and mash were made.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

Built in 1913 as a Bank of Japan deputy governor's villa and moved twice to Mt. Akagi, this refined house pairs tatami rooms with a Western parlour. Registered in 2025.

Built between 1883 and 1897 and spared by the great Omama fire of 1895, this timber merchant house in Midori City, Gunma, still trades as a soy sauce shop.

Raised in 1913 to keep a soy sauce brewer's account books safe from fire, this small plastered storehouse in Midori City, Gunma, was registered in 2013.

A 1905 fireproof storehouse in Shimonita, Gunma, the largest on the Ogino property, with kakegonuri doors and an exposed truss roof upstairs. Registered in 2009.

A c.1924 two-story house in Shimonita, Gunma, turning a gently curved hip-and-gable roof to the old highway, with a guest room upstairs. Registered in 2009.

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