Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

A farmhouse of about 1909 on a slope in the Iriyamabe valley east of Matsumoto, its tall upper floor built as one undivided silkworm room. Registered 1999. Private.

A late-Edo yakuimon gate in Matsushiro, Nagano. It is 3.6 metres wide, with asymmetric wing walls, a wicket door and lime plaster, and was registered in 2010.

A two-storey Edo-period building in Matsushiro, Nagano, where samurai household servants lodged. Three different street-side lattice windows; registered 2010.

A late-Edo earthen wall in Matsushiro, Nagano: 12 metres long and 1.8 high, plastered smooth toward the street and left open-framed within. Registered 2010.

An 1868 indigo dyer's townhouse moved to the Nakadana Onsen grounds in Komoro in 2002, reopened as a soba restaurant. Registered 2006; lunch needs no booking.

Built in 1873 and registered in 2012, this 35-metre plaster storehouse in Nagano City still brews sake each winter with Sai River groundwater. Tours by booking.

A late Edo honmune-zukuri farmhouse on the Zenkoji Kaido in Shiojiri, home of a village headman, with a sparrow-dance gable; Emperor Meiji rested here in 1880.

An early Meiji honmune-zukuri farmhouse in Sasaga, Matsumoto: a wide gable with a sparrow-dance ornament, latticed front and a formal entrance, kept as built.

A salt merchant's house rebuilt in 1890 after Omachi's great fire, the town's first fireproof dozo-zukuri machiya, with a beamed doma now part of Chojiya museum.

A late Edo storehouse range behind Omachi's salt merchant house: a document store with pickle and salt stores added in 1869, the salt store keeping its brine trap.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster walls, a detached tiled roof and the family crest modelled in plaster on its west wall.

A late Edo single-storey shed in Obuse, Nagano, once a water mill, with a tiled gable roof swept down into a lean-to. It ends a roadside row of 3 buildings.

A late Meiji silk-raising building in Obuse, Nagano, enlarged under Taisho. Its 2 tall tiled wings carry raised ridge vents and large windows. Registered in 2011.

A late Edo farmhouse in Obuse, Nagano, 23.4 m long, with a thatched hipped roof and a tiled east wing. Its four-room plan grew a guest suite. Registered in 2011.

A one-room guest parlor of 1916 in Obuse, Nagano, linked to the main house by a covered passage, with an alcove, a sunken hearth and a boat-hull ceiling in 18 m2.

A long, narrow outbuilding of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, 13.3 m by 1.8 m, holding an outdoor toilet, a charcoal shed and a work shed side by side. Registered in 2011.

A single-storey barn of 1907 in Obuse, Nagano, with white plaster over weatherboards and a door onto the inner yard, part of the compound's front. Registered 2011.

A late Edo two-storey storehouse on the road frontage in Obuse, Nagano, left at its clay coat, whose north doorway has a fire door, a timber door and a lattice door.

The Fujiya Ryokan in Nagano, built in 1924 by the family that ran the Zenkoji post town's official inn, is a timber building with a Western tiled front.

The Bridal Senka Mimura Shop in Suwa, Nagano, a timber shop of 1929 with a geometric Western-style front, shapes the street with the Mimura shop next door.