Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hokkaido

A railway bridge of ten concrete arches at Shari, Hokkaido, Japan. Finished in 1940 as work on the line stopped, it never carried a train; two piers were removed.

Asahikawa's last surviving army riding hall, built in brick for winter cavalry drill. Iron Fink trusses span it, and a bus company services vehicles inside it today.

Built in 1899 to season carriage timber, this square brick building in Asahikawa shows Flemish bond walls, three-centred gable arches and overburnt brick trim.

Where carriage woodwork was cut and fitted from 1899, this Asahikawa brick workshop pairs broad arched windows with slit openings and now serves as a public hall.

A 1961 annex joined to the 1936 main block of the Abashiri City Museum in Hokkaido. Tanoue Yoshiya designed both; the newer one shows his postwar manner.

A 1936 hilltop museum in Abashiri, Hokkaido by Tanoue Yoshiya: symmetrical plan, a red tower roof and geometric facade panels. Registered in December 2019.

Shaonkan, a 1922 wooden annex at Iai Gakuin in Hakodate, was registered in 2005. Its over-burnt brick plinth and banded sliding windows echo the main hall beside it.

The Iai Gakuin Auditorium in Hakodate, a 1935 Vories design registered in 2002, still seats about 600 on its original chairs for the school's morning worship.

This small wooden building in Hidaka Town, Hokkaido keeps two formal rooms salvaged in 1951 from a 1911 imperial lodging, under a coved coffered ceiling in hinoki.

Facing the Pacific in Hidaka Town, Hokkaido, this late Meiji house joins a Western reception room to two tatami rooms by a corridor turning a right angle.

A Meiji-era wooden office in southern Sapporo, built in 1887, honoring Edwin Dun, the Ohio rancher who founded Hokkaido's dairy industry from Makomanai in 1876.

The front gate of about 1919 to the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: a 2.5 m single-bay yakuimon with a gently swelling pantile roof and wicket doors at its sides.

A long Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built into the boundary wall, with a banded eave and round-cornered windows.

A 2-storey brick storehouse of about 1919 joined to the Endo main house in Susukino, Sapporo, with dark English-bond brick, broken pediments and a dentilled cornice.

A timber merchant's house of about 1919 in Sapporo's Susukino, with a Western parlour, staggered tatami suites and a brick north wall that doubles as the boundary.

The 161 m wall of about 1919 enclosing the Endo estate in Susukino, Sapporo: rock-faced soft stone on three sides, brick on the north, with geometric capitals.

A tiny Sapporo soft-stone storehouse of about 1919 on the Endo estate in Susukino, built against the boundary wall, with stone brackets and a root-cellar basement.

A single-storey brick warehouse of 1904 west of the office in the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa. Its long side faces Miyashita-dori; in 2001 it was a public hall.

A 1903 brick warehouse at the west corner of the Kamikawa Warehouses, Asahikawa, with king post trusses and a dentilled cornice; once a chair gallery, now a gallery.

A 2-storey timber office of 1913 at the front of the Kamikawa Warehouses in Asahikawa: weatherboarding, a brick chimney and a pedimented gable with an arched window.

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