Important cultural property

An Important Cultural Property of 1731 at Nagasaki's Sōfukuji, where Kannon, the deified general Guan Yu, and the guardian Idaten share one Ōbaku-style hall.

Sōfukuji's vermilion outer gate in Nagasaki, rebuilt in 1849 by Japanese carpenters. The Dragon Palace Gate is the temple's most Chinese-looking building.

Built in 1728 at Nagasaki's Sofukuji temple, this two-story tower holds both a bell and a drum. Its frame is Chinese carpentry; its roof follows Japanese design.

Built in 1666, the Maso Gate of Sōfukuji temple in Nagasaki leads to the hall of Maso, the Chinese sea goddess once enshrined there by visiting trading ships.

Built in 1918 by master builder Tetsukawa Yosuke, this hilltop brick church above Hirado Strait pairs a dark exterior with a pale, camellia-carved interior.

A mid-Edo thatched farmhouse in Nagasaki City, an Important Cultural Property since 1969, with a three-room plan and thought to be the oldest in the prefecture.

The Former Latin Seminary beside Oura Cathedral in Nagasaki, a half-timbered brick building of 1875 by Father de Rotz, now houses the Kirishitan Museum.

A single-storey merchant's house of about 1868 in Nagasaki, its stone walls from Amakusa and veranda granite from Vladivostok. Important Cultural Property, 1966.

The stepped channel of the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano, built in 1917 after Alpine torrent works, drops through nineteen stone sills along 141 metres.

Antonin Raymond built this 1933 Karuizawa villa with log framing and a butterfly roof. An Important Cultural Property since 2023, it now houses the Musee Peynet.

The Bentendo of Kozenji in Komagane, Nagano, a plain one-bay hall of 1576 in a scenic Tendai precinct, holds a late Muromachi shrine cabinet, rare in the region.

The three-storey pagoda of Shinano Kokubunji in Ueda, Nagano, a mid-Muromachi tower mainly in the Japanese style, rises among village houses with curving eaves.

The inner hall of Kosuge Shrine in Iiyama, Nagano, a Muromachi building on posts against a rock 840 metres up the mountain, is a rare Shugendo survival.

The Komatsu Family Residence in Kataoka, Shiojiri, Nagano, a thatched farmhouse of the early 18th century, is counted among the oldest houses in eastern Japan.

The Sakato Bridge of 1932 in Nakagawa, Nagano, spans the Tenryu with a parabolic concrete arch of 70 metres, the longest span of any surviving prewar road bridge.

The 1766 house of wholesalers who also kept a hatago lodging house at Mochizuki-juku on the Nakasendo in Saku, Nagano, an Important Cultural Property since 1973.

The main hall of Sano Shrine in Yamanouchi, Nagano, a one-bay nagare-style hall of 1592 roofed with thick wooden shingles, is a dated Momoyama shrine building.

Built in the Kyoho era (1716-1735), the Shimazaki Family Residence in Shiojiri, Nagano is the oldest known fully formed honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Japan.

The shrine cabinet of Shakusonji, the Nunobiki Kannon of Komoro, Nagano, made in 1258, stands in the cave of a cliff-side hall reached by a steep mountain path.

The Yakushido Hall of Jokoji in Obuse, Nagano, a thatched hip-and-gable hall dated to 1408, is a Muromachi-period hall of the Healing Buddha, designated in 1907.