Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

Painted with red bengara and known locally as the Akamon, Jokyoji Temple Main Gate is a late Edo yakuimon with a bold carved gable strut; it was registered in 2025.

Built in 1792 southeast of the main hall, Jokyoji Temple Bell Tower has tall leaning posts on a stone base and a carved strut on its west face only; registered 2025.

Built in 1731 in Joetsu's temple quarter, Jokyoji Temple Main Hall has a classic Shin Buddhist plan and a gilded dharma-wheel transom; it was registered in 2025.

Dated to the early 1700s, Shoboji Temple Kannon Hall is a small east-facing hall whose southern half divides into two sanctuaries behind a fully bracketed partition.

Built in 1802, this two-storey plastered storehouse at Shoboji Temple carries a detached roof and frames each opening in the shape of a torii under the temple crest.

Built in 1704 and the oldest of the six registered buildings at Shoboji Temple, this sutra repository sets temple bracketing above the walls of a storehouse.

A four-legged gate of the later Edo period, Shoboji Temple Main Gate opens the precinct on Sado Island and gathers a dragon and mythical beasts overhead.

Built in 1820, this open bell tower at Shoboji Temple is one bay square, its posts leaning inward and every coffer of its ceiling carrying a painting.

Built in 1721, Shoboji Temple Main Hall on Sado Island keeps a six-room hojo plan and tucks the founder's hall under a dropped rear roof. Registered in 2011.

The Seikokan Main Building at Deyu Onsen, Niigata, registered in 2015, is a three-storey timber inn of about 1928 whose rooms each use different prized woods.

Sesonji Temple Red Gate, a mid-Edo four-legged gate before the Main Hall on Sado, links ridge and purlins with curved shrimp beams and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Front Gate, a bracket-arm gate at the roadside entrance of a Sado temple, dates to about 1800, has a plank ceiling, and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Household Goods Storehouse on Sado, built in 1831 and moved in 1887, frames its upper windows in torii-shaped plaster and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Shoin on Sado Island, linked to the Main Hall by a corridor, has four tatami rooms under a tall hip-and-gable roof and was registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Treasure House, a late-Edo clay storehouse on high ground at a Sado temple, has a separate okiyane roof and ornate plaster relief, registered in 2006.

Sesonji Temple Main Hall on Sado, begun in 1892 and finished in 1907, is a large Nichiren hall of 301 square meters, registered as a cultural property in 2006.

Nine years older than the main hall it adjoins, this 1785 priests' wing in Tainai, Niigata, was registered in 2018 for its sequence of shoin reception rooms.

Built in 1794 in Tainai, Niigata, this Shin Buddhist main hall was registered in 2018 for its design: dragon carvings on the entrance canopy and oversized struts.

The 1893 shop-house of Sosendo, a working sweet shop on the old main street of Murakami, Niigata, with a shop room in front and an open living room. Registered 2005.

A two-storey clay-walled store of 1887 behind the Sosendo sweet shop in Murakami, Niigata, older than the main house, with a detached roof and black plaster bands.

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