Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

Zenkyoji Main Hall in Nagano City is a 1736 Shin Buddhist hall of 621 square meters, with round columns, a double veranda and a dragon ceiling. Registered in 2025.

The Zenkoji Bell Tower in Nagano, rebuilt in 1853, rests on six posts for the six characters of the nenbutsu and hangs a bell recast in 1667. Registered in 2020.

Zenkoji's Niomon Gate in Nagano, rebuilt in zelkova in 1918, houses Nio guardians by Takamura Koun and Yonehara Unkai, placed in reverse order. Registered in 2020.

Zenzanji Temple Priests' Quarters, an 1830 tiled kitchen-residence in Ueda, Nagano, shows beams stacked in three tiers on its gables. Registered in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Entrance in Ueda, Nagano, is a late-Edo hall whose formal porch, with its large oigata scrolls, was registered as a model of design in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Main Gate in Ueda, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched gate 2.7 metres wide at the top of stone steps, moved here in 1933 and registered in 2024.

Zenzanji Temple Main Hall in Ueda, Nagano, is a mid-Edo thatched hall of 267 square metres with a dragon-carved porch, registered as a cultural property in 2024.

Zozan Shrine Ema Hall in Nagano is an open-sided 1938 pavilion with deep eaves and a gable lattice, for ema plaques and rest. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Saikan in Nagano is a 1938 priests' hall with a tiled roof, curved karahafu porch, tall windows and Western-style rooms. Registered in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Office in Nagano is a long 1938 hip-and-gable building with a formal shikidai entrance, alcove rooms and many roofs. Registered in late 2005.

Zozan Shrine Worship Hall and Prayer Hall in Nagano is a 1938 hip-and-gable hall with lattice shutters, offering rooms and a rear prayer hall. Registered 2005.

Zozan Shrine Treasure Hall in Nagano is a 30 m2 gabled storehouse of 1938 on a cut-stone base, with barred windows and vents. Registered as a property in 2005.

Zozan Shrine Main Hall in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a 1938 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with no carved side screens, registered as a cultural property in 2005.

A single-arch brick bridge of 1900 on the Shinonoi Line in Chikuma, Nagano. Ashlar abutments and over-fired brickwork survive from Japan's state railway era.

The main house of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a 333-square-meter mid-Edo thatched farmhouse. Registered in 2017, it has no central pillar at all.

North of the main house at the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, stands a late-Edo storehouse with a separate okiyane roof and torii-waku framing its openings.

The gatehouse of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched nagayamon: hipped at the south end, gabled at the north, following its use below.

The largest building at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, a long dozo storehouse with a monitor roof and three gabled dormers, tied to the founding of the house in 1868.

A tiny iron-roofed shed of 8.4 square metres covering the founding-era round well at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, where soft Mt. Tateshina water begins its work.

An L-shaped Taisho-era rice granary at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, extending the front bin and marking a stage in the brewery's growth. Listed as hard to recreate.

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