Important cultural property

The Tachikawa Family House Shop in Hakodate, a brick shop of 1900 with a timber truss roof, looks like a Japanese storehouse and mixes Japanese and Western styles.

The former Otaru branch of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a stone building completed in 1906, keeps its original fittings and hosted the 1906 talks on the Sakhalin border.

Completed in 1916 and designated in 1983, this brick church in Motomachi, Hakodate carries six cupolas and a bell tower ranked among Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

An Edo tea room attributed to Kobori Enshu, carried from Omi to Sapporo in the 1920s. Its eight windows and red pine central pillar survive in Nakajima Park.

A turret gate of 1853 and the only building left from Fukuyama Castle, the last in the Japanese style. Free to view year-round inside Matsumae Park, Hokkaido.

This 1922 timber kindergarten in Obihiro, Hokkaido, sets an octagonal domed playroom at the centre of a square plan. An Important Cultural Property since 2017.

A mid-Edo four-legged gate with a hand-split shingle roof at a Soto Zen temple in Matsumae, among Hokkaido's oldest temple buildings. Designated in 1993.

Built by the Kaitakushi in 1880 and opened as Emperor Meiji's lodging, this white clapboard hotel in Sapporo's Nakajima Park keeps its ultramarine trim.

Nine Meiji farm buildings on the Hokkaido University campus, built on Clark's plan for large-scale stock farming. Free entry, three barns open inside each summer.

A thatched settler farmhouse in Date City left by the Watari Date migration. Two rooms and an earth floor, heavily framed, with a plan echoed by later militia huts.

Ryuunin in Matsumae, Hokkaido, founded in 1625, keeps five late Edo buildings, among them a main hall of 1842 carved by Kashiwazaki carpenters and old quarters.

1,805 Final Jomon to Epi-Jomon grave goods from the Tokoro River mouth in Kitami, Hokkaido, an Important Cultural Property since 2023, rich in amber beads.

Built in 1596, Kada Kasuga Shrine's main hall in Wakayama is an Important Cultural Property whose carved struts show shrimp, shells, Ebisu, and a rare kalavinka.

A thatched three-bay hall of 1427 in upland Wakayama, dated by its ridge tablets, housing a 1494 shrine cabinet and a village rite still held each lunar new year.

A 1937 timber schoolhouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, designated an Important Cultural Property in 2014 and still holding classes. A 98-metre range, four wings.

The Main House of the Former Yanagawa Residence, an 1807 townhouse built by a Kishu lacquer wholesaler in Kuroe, now stands at Kii Fudoki no Oka in Wakayama City.

The bell tower of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a Momoyama-period tower of 3 by 2 bays with a skirted base and a tiled hip-and-gable roof, was designated in 1908.

The tahoto pagoda of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a three-bay two-storey pagoda of 1449 roofed in hongawara tiles, was designated in 1908 with a ridge tag.

The two-storey gate of Gokokuin at Kimiidera, Wakayama, a gate of the mid Muromachi period three bays wide with a tiled hip-and-gable roof, was designated in 1908.

The Kongobuji Temple designation covers nine Danjo Garan halls on Mount Koya, from the 1834 Saito pagoda to the 1883 Juntei-do, with notes on access to the Mieido.