Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

An outdoor hot spring pool of 1923 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, walled in four courses of local Ariake granite, still filled for walking baths each summer.

A square Meiji timber building at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino whose roof is split at the ridge: boards weighted with stones on the south, sheet metal on the north.

A tiny pyramidal-roofed hall of 1848 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, tied to the legend of Sakanoue no Tamuramaro healing his wounded soldiers in the hot springs.

A slim two-storey storehouse of 1854 at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, moved here in the Meiji era: a plank store apparently coated in earth, typical of mountain areas.

A mid-Meiji two-storey guest wing at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, with an open south front, verandas on each floor and an attached bath. Walter Weston stayed in 1912.

A tiny late Edo shrine to the mountain god at Nakabusa Onsen in Azumino, set on a carved boulder, its shingle roof and full-scale joinery shrunk to miniature size.

A late Edo clay storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, moved to the Nakamura homestead in 1887. Its northern half is a miso store, a type common in central Nagano.

Built in 1820, this two-story clay storehouse in Azumino, Nagano, has a separate okiyane roof, ushibari and noboribari framing, and walls left at the middle coat.

A late Edo farmhouse on high ground above Minami-Otari Station in Otari, Nagano, with a hipped thatched roof under metal, a ridge vent and an indoor stable.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Azumino, Nagano: 243 square meters under a gabled pantile roof, six rooms around a 9-tsubo oe, and many sashigamoi lintels.

Built in 1903 beside the Nakamura main house in Otari, Nagano, this storehouse has an okiyane roof, mortar walls scored like stone and a kakego-nuri door upstairs.

Built in 1887 on the Nakamura homestead in Azumino, Nagano, this barn served silkworm rearing and rice polishing, its walls and eaves sealed in clay against fire.

A Taisho-era munamon gate and fence in Azumino, Nagano, linking the main house to the front storehouse and dividing forecourt from inner yard, a Chushin pattern.

A 1933 reinforced concrete Anglican church on the old Zenkoji Road in Chikuma, Nagano, registered in 2023, with buttress-style piers and round-arched windows.

The Japan Crane Association Nagano Branch Museum in Nagano City is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that preserves the former Ikeda Police Station, originally built in 1893 during the Meiji era. Discover this charming two-story Western-style wooden building featuring a hipped-roof entrance porch and exquisite lace-like barge board decorations that showcase the unique beauty of Japan's pseudo-Western architectural tradition.

A 1932 timber Anglican church in Iiyama, Nagano, registered in 2017, with a bell turret, pointed-arch windows and tatami seating laid from the very start.

Okaya Saint Barnabas Church, an Anglican church of 1928 in Okaya, Nagano, has a south front like a line of mountain peaks, temple-style ornament and tatami seating.

Matsumoto Holy Cross Church, an Anglican church of 1910 near Matsumoto Castle, has a steep red-tiled roof, a bell tower and a Gothic interior with local touches.

Nozawa Onsen Lodge in Nagano, an acorn-shaped timber ski lodge of 1969 by Yoshizaka Takamasa and Atelier U, wraps split-level rooms round a spiral stair.

The Nonaka family main house on Natsume-koji in Matsushiro, Nagano, a hipped house of the late Edo period with a formal entrance and a tea room, has a samurai look.