Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nagano

A small late-Edo-period hall on the grounds of Yamada Ryokan at Otari Onsen in Nagano, built so that toji bathers could pray to Yakushi Nyorai, the Buddha of Medicine. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and a rare living trace of Japan's spa-and-faith healing tradition.

At Otari Onsen in deep Nagano, Yamada Ryokan's 1926 bathhouse shelters the historic Utsutsu-no-yu spring. A two-story wooden Taisho-period building with Western-influenced interiors, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2001.

Step into the Yudanaka Station Old Building, a 1927 wooden depot in chalet form with Stick-style detailing that has welcomed travelers to Nagano's hot spring resorts for nearly a century. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 2005, it now serves as Kaede no Yakata, a free community space at the gateway to the Yudanaka-Shibu onsen district and Shiga Kogen.

A 1944 gravity-type concrete sabo dam on the Yokoyu River in Yamanouchi, Nagano. Registered in 2021, this 39-meter structure helps protect the historic Yudanaka-Shibu onsen valley from debris flows.

Yoroduya Ryokan's Momoyama Bath in Yudanaka Onsen, Nagano, is a wooden temple-style bathhouse completed in 1953 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Its coved coffered ceiling, nail-free joinery, and oval Inada-stone tub make it one of Japan's most extraordinary places to bathe.