Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

Nakahara Family Residence Main House in Akatsuka, Niigata: an 1860 headman's home with bracketed eaves where Emperor Meiji lunched in 1878. Open spring and fall.

Nakahara Family Residence Annex in Akatsuka, Niigata: an early Taisho guest wing off the main house, with an inner veranda and a fully glazed front and sides.

Nakahara Family Residence Brick Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a 51-meter English-bond firebreak with ten arches, said to date from after the fire of 1909.

Built in 1931 at an 1846 Niigata restaurant, this two-story sukiya wing holds a tea room below and paired rooms above. Its gable screen won registration in 2000.

An early-Showa storehouse at a Niigata restaurant, with tiled namako lower walls and double doors stacked in matching pairs. Registered in 2000; now a dining room.

Niigata burned twice in 1908. Rebuilding two years later, this restaurant raised a brick storehouse in header bond, its fire wall rising above the tiled roof.

A brick gate of 1904 facing the old Mikuni Kaido highway, its English-bond piers crowned with a carved stone band and a dentil capstone. Registered in 2022.

A brick building of nineteen square metres, built in 1907 to store, clean and refuel the kerosene lamps used by boarders at Kamo Agriculture and Forestry School.

Built in 1916 for Nagaoka Middle School and registered in 2011, this brick gate is the only prewar structure left on a campus born of the hundred sacks of rice.

Registered in 2008, this late Meiji brick gate in Gosen City sets English bond beside Flemish bond at the prefecture's first technical school of 1903.

Completed in 1929 and registered in 2005 for its design quality, this scratch-tiled Neo-Gothic hall in central Niigata is a free museum you can walk straight into.

A 149-metre brick wall of 1911 steps down Niigata's dune slope beside the 1914 gate that students call the Akamon. The two were registered together in 2005.

Oil magnate Niitsu Tsunekichi built this 1938 Niigata guest house for foreign visitors who never came. In 1998 it became the prefecture's first registered building.

The Nishinoya Irrigation Canal in Myoko, Niigata, registered in 2003, is a stone channel of 1926 that carries irrigation water through the body of a check dam.

This 1967 hall on Mount Ninoji in Shibata City steps its worship and offering halls up through one tatami room. Registered in 2024; it is also the trailhead.

The Ninomiya Family Residence No. 1 Rice Storehouse in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1875 rice store 17 and a half bays long, 267 square metres, with a full-length eave.

The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 1 in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1875 two-storey document store with a family crest on its gable and stepped doors.

The Ninomiya Family Residence Great Gate and Wall in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1877 row-house gate, raised in 1935 and given a roofed wall turning toward the Main House.

The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 5 in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1908 two-storey storehouse ending a row of four, with namako-kabe and stacked windows.

The Ninomiya Family Residence Workshop in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1919 single-storey shed whose lowered roof forms a deep eave running on into the storehouse beside it.