Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hokkaido

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.

A 1927 forestry research building in Ebetsu, Hokkaido, with a brick ground floor under a half-timbered upper storey. Registered in 2001, it now houses a cafe.

Erimo's 1928 concrete lighthouse was retired in 1978, its hill cut away for a park while the tower stayed put. Look for the corbelled arch and dentil cornice.

Hongyoji Old Ossuary in Kushiro, Hokkaido is a 1931 charnel hall linked to the main hall, registered in 2025 for how its solid exterior shapes the compound.

Hongyoji Main Hall in Kushiro, Hokkaido is a 1925 Jodo Shinshu hall registered in 2025. Its mortar walls imitate cut stone; its porch beam ends are plasterwork.

Built in 1925 on an Asahikawa street corner, this house sets a battened timber Japanese wing against a roughcast Western one. Privately lived in, so exterior only.

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