Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hokkaido

The brick portal of the Tenryu pit's man-car incline, where carriages took miners underground, eleven metres wide with a conical keystone, pilasters and wing walls.

Step inside Japan's only publicly walkable coal mine: a 180-metre brick-arched tunnel in Yubari, Hokkaidō, with a real coal seam to touch, vintage shearers, and an 1888 origin story.

Built in 1919 in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, this 57-square-metre stone building housed the town's first bank until 1966. Registered as a cultural property in February 2002.

This 1928 timber relay station in Nanporo, Hokkaido, lodged around 550 travellers a year until a railway closed it in 1931. Registered in 2006; exterior only.

A 94-metre coal railway bridge of about 1945 in Ashibetsu, Hokkaido, with a diesel locomotive still standing on its deck. Registered as a cultural property in 2009.

A 1938 rice granary built of Sapporo welded tuff at Takaoka in Ishikari, Hokkaido. Registered in 2024, it now houses the Higuchi Kiichiro Memorial Museum.

A 1911 timber rice granary at Takaoka in Ishikari, Hokkaido, registered in 2024. A single central post carries the ridge beam; the interior is not open to visitors.

Ginrinso Former Main Building in Otaru is a late Meiji herring mansion moved from Yoichi in 1938. Registered in 2023, it holds a six-room hall and a large shrine.

Kumagai Family Residence Main House in Hokuto is a late Edo townhouse registered in 2006. Its sheet-iron roof and restored earth floor show Donan building practice.

Grill Ginrinso in Otaru began as herring storage, became a fisheries museum in 1941, and now serves French food. Registered in 2023 for its plastered latticed walls.

A 77-metre soft-stone wall in central Sapporo, built in 1926 and registered in 2010 with the house, storehouse and gate. Its edo-kiri masonry shapes the street.

The Fifth Storehouse is the smallest in the row. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with a stone belt course and doorways on both gable ends. Registered in 2006.

The Third Storehouse closely resembles its neighbour the Second, yet its king-post roof truss and raised upper floor set it apart. Built in 1921, registered in 2006.

The Koji-Making House is the newest of the registered buildings, built in 1922. A plain brick structure, it holds the koji room in one corner. Registered in 2006.

The largest brick warehouse at the Kobayashi Brewery in Hokkaido. Built in 1921, its gable windows, dentils and ridge tiles lend quiet ornament. Registered in 2006.

The Rice-Steaming House is a single-story brick hall where brewing rice was steamed. A brick chimney rises at the north gable. Built in 1900, registered in 2006.

The Fourth Storehouse is the only one roofed with pantiles. Built in 1900 of Sapporo soft stone over timber, with stone eaves and gable verge. Registered in 2006.

The Sixth Storehouse ends the row, its only single-story warehouse. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with sliding doors front and back. Registered in 2006.

Completed in 1925 north of Asahikawa, this 592-square-metre timber hall has a karahafu-gabled entrance bay, a skirt roof with frog-leg struts and dense bracketing.

Built in 1902 for a fishing magnate on Hokkaido's Uchiura Bay, this 18-metre timber house pairs a deep segai eave with a full-length pent roof and a lattice screen.

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