Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

A Showa-period summer villa at Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its west face is glazed on both floors with a sunroom behind, an early work of timber modernism.

An Edo-period thatched main house in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date over there is given only as a span of some 78 whole years even now.

A Showa-period road bridge at Oshika, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its road runs beneath three concrete arches tied to the girders, a fine example of a common type.

Meiji-period stone waterway works in Ogawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date field over there carries both the building and the two repairs now.

A Showa-period museum building in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It takes the outward shape of a Christian church over there even so even now today.

The lowest of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 10 metres long and 4.2 metres high, built of boulders up to a metre across.

Built in 1887 on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano, this 16-metre dry-stone sabo dam is one of four low, gently battered dams still guarding the valley today.

Second of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 12 metres long, 3.8 metres high and almost symmetrical, with a crisp central spillway.

Uppermost and largest of four 1887 dry-stone sabo dams on the Ashizawa stream in Omi, Nagano: 15 metres long and 6.8 metres high, an early Home Ministry public work.

A cocoon warehouse of about 1894, twenty bays long and three storeys high, this plastered timber building beside Iijima Shoten's shop in Ueda is now its workshop.

Built around 1894 by the Ueda Soko warehouse company, this three-storey plastered cocoon warehouse on a corner near Ueda Station is now Iijima Shoten's office.

Built in 1924 as Iijima Shoten's head office, this three-storey timber building near Ueda Station has scored mortar walls that imitate stone and now houses the shop.

A late Meiji munamon gate in Azumino, Nagano, opening from the main house forecourt into the garden, its gently curved roof ridge decorated with a circle pattern.

An 1859 earthen rice storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, extended in 1900, whose closed west wall forms the western face of the Iida brewer's estate, with okiyane roofs.

An early Meiji pawn storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, with a pair of black-plastered earthen doors on its west front, namako tiling and a separate roof set above.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri house in Azumino, Nagano, 10 bays wide with a gable-end front, once roofed with stone-weighted boards and home to a sake-brewing family.

An early Meiji brewing hall in Azumino, Nagano, 16 bays long under a low wagoya-framed roof, whose chimney marks the east side of the Iida sake brewer's estate.

An 1875 earthen storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, whose southern end served as retirement quarters with its own privy, finished in tortoiseshell-pattern namako tiling.

A 63-meter late Meiji earthen wall in Azumino, Nagano, built on a stone base with posts every 1 ken and white plaster, enclosing the garden of the Iida estate.

The smallest building on the Iida estate in Azumino, Nagano: a Meiji miso storehouse of 20 square meters, its rafters sealed in white plaster above board-clad walls.

Nagano’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.