Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

A 17-metre steel fire lookout tower raised in 1955 beside the old Ina highway in Tatsuno, Nagano, with an alarm bell under its pointed roof and scrolled eaves.

Built in 1905 at the southern edge of the old post town of Ono in Tatsuno, Nagano, this timber village hall holds a tatami-floored assembly chamber upstairs.

The Kyu-Karuizawa House, a villa of about 1927 owned by a granddaughter of Matsukata Masayoshi, is clad in red clapboard with an Asama-stone fireplace inside.

The former Kitazawa house in Yasaka, Omachi, Nagano, a broad thatched headman's home of about 1849 with a massive beamed earth floor, anchors its hill village.

The Inner Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with heavy doors, rough plaster walls and a link to the main house.

The main house of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, a white-plastered Meiji home of a silk family, has a 36-mat reception suite open free.

The Outer Storehouse of the Former Koshi Family Residence in Suzaka, Nagano, is a late Meiji kura with white plaster walls, an iron-clad base and barred windows.

The main house of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, keeps a gabled shikidai entrance and an earthen hall now open as a tea room.

The early Meiji storehouse of Kumeya, the wakihonjin of Komoro on the Hokkoku Kaido, has white plaster walls and now serves as a two-floor guest room.

The detached reception wing of Kumeya, the late Edo wakihonjin of Komoro, has four rooms and a formal main room with a carved transom of the Seven Sages.

An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate whose walls are stacked squared timbers hidden under white plaster, built to guard the family's papers.

Built in 1890 at the heart of an Ueda silkworm-egg estate, this plastered rearing house keeps its fire furnaces, leaf cellar and slatted ceiling. Registered 2024.

A small Meiji silkworm room joined to the north of Silkworm Room No. 1 on an Ueda egg-producing estate, with plaster walls, board skirting and an open roof frame.

An early Meiji storehouse on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate that kept miso below and tools above, its loft showing rare notched rafters and overlapping roof boards.

A stout Meiji-era gate, moved to this Ueda silkworm-egg estate in 1904, with frog-leg brackets, double rafters and scars from wartime metal drives. Registered 2024.

The largest building on an Ueda silkworm-egg estate: a 1890 rearing house topped by a full-length vent roof, with a furnace modeled on an 1887 government design.

The former Showa Kogyo silk mill, a reeling shed of about 1925 now at Rekishi no Sato in Matsumoto, keeps the high windows and roof vent of a modern silk mill.

The Former Jorgensen House in Karuizawa is a 1926 summer villa of an American missionary, a gabled timber cottage with a sunroom entrance and a stone fireplace.

Built in 1936, the Former Suzuki Dental Clinic (Kataoka Sanso) is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture. This Western-style wooden building features striking bengara red clapboard siding with white window frames, preserving the historic resort landscape of Japan's premier highland retreat.

The former Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank branch in Matsumoto, Nagano, a concrete bank of 1937 on the road to the castle, has seven curved arches across its front.

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