Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

The Yamada Ryokan New Storehouse, a 1909 store on a stone wall at the inn entrance, names its builder on the ridge beam and has served as a museum since 1979.

The Yamada Ryokan Main Building at Otari Onsen: a late-Edo three-storey timber inn wing with stacked galleries, extended in 1884 and registered in 2001.

The Yamada Ryokan Front Storehouse, an 1885 earthen store at Otari Onsen, wraps even its pent-roof posts in white plaster; registered in 2001 as a model of form.

The Yamada Ryokan Yakushido, a small late-Edo hall at Otari Onsen enshrining the Buddha of healing, shows that spa guests needed a place to pray; registered in 2001.

The Yamada Ryokan Bathroom, a two-storey bathhouse rebuilt in 1926 over an open-air spring at Otari Onsen, keeps a 2-meter cascade bath; registered in 2001.

The old station building at Yudanaka in Yamanouchi, Nagano, built in 1927, has open canopies, a gable over its entrance and Stick-style walls, now a meeting place.

Yokoyu River Dam, a 1944 sabo weir at Shibu Onsen, Nagano, fills the gap between two Home Ministry dams; at 3.8 m it is the tallest of eight and has a wing channel.

Yokoyu River No. 1 Dam, a 1938 concrete sabo dam faced in mortared stone, 48 m long and 3 m high, is the lowest of eight registered dams below Shibu Onsen, Nagano.

Yokoyu River No. 51 Dam, a 1925 Home Ministry sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is 52 m long, only 1.8 m high and faced with rough fieldstone. Registered in 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 50 Dam, a 1925 sabo weir beside the Wago Bridge in Shibu Onsen, Nagano, has a narrowed spillway between steep squared-stone corners, listed 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 57 Dam, a 1927 Home Ministry sabo weir above Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is the longest of the eight at 58 m, with a gentle upstream and steep lower face.

Yokoyu River No. 3 Dam, built in 1936 right below the Kurokawa Bridge at the entrance to Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is a 40 m stone-faced concrete sabo dam, listed 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 39 Dam, built in 1924, is the oldest of the eight sabo dams at Shibu Onsen, Nagano: a 3.6 m weir with a lower tier fused to its downstream face.

Yokoyu River No. 2 Dam, a low 1937 sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is faced with evenly sized river cobbles and forms part of a channel-works scheme, listed 2021.

The Momoyama Bath of the Yorozuya inn at Yudanaka Onsen, Nagano, built in 1951 to designs by Okitsu Kiyoshi, has a cusped-gable entrance and a temple-style frame.

Built about 1887 for a family of doctors, this Nagano farmhouse tucks an examination room and waiting room off its earth floor beneath a silkworm-style vented ridge.

An earthen storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with a lean-to extended into a rear gate and an iron canopy on its east side. Registered 2001.

This 25-meter gatehouse of about 1887 closes the south side of a Nagano doctor's estate. Its roof steps down midway and its heavy doors open inward. Registered 2001.

An 18-meter roofed earthen wall of about 1887 around the garden of a Nagano doctor's estate, plastered on one face and post-and-panel on the other. Registered 2001.

A 14-square-meter storehouse of about 1887 on a Nagano doctor's estate, with an earth-floored ground level for miso and carefully framed openings. Registered 2001.