Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Miso Storehouse and Rice Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a Taisho-era clay store split into miso and rice halves.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Starter Storehouse in Sekikawa, Niigata, is a narrow board-clad clay store where the family grew its sake yeast starter.

The Furumine Shrine Main Hall in the Isurugi Shrine grounds, Niigata City, is an 1837 shrine almost covered in carving, shown at its June festival; registered 2008.

A late-Meiji earthen storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, its plaster walls boarded against the weather, whose front bay links the rice and miso storehouses.

A large thatched gatehouse from the end of the Edo period on a Sado doctor's estate, with a windowless front to the street and a passage between earthen rooms.

An early-Meiji timber storehouse on a Sado doctor's estate, a plastered miso store below and a tokonoma room above, joined to the thatched main house by a bay.

The largest store on a Sado doctor's estate: an early-Meiji earthen rice store wrapped in a timber bay under one gabled roof, said to come from a shipping merchant.

Built in 1949 at the heart of the Hosaka estate in Tonome, Joetsu: a single-storey gabled house with a guest porch and a plain reception room with no nageshi beam.

A mid-Showa glasshouse for fruit and gardening on the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: posts on a waist-high block base, rafters pitched at 45 degrees and a timber anteroom.

An 1826 storehouse moved in 1909 to the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: two plastered kura under one pantiled okiyane roof, with 4 rooms each holding 2 freestanding posts.

A 1909 reception wing west of the Hosaka main house in Joetsu: a hipped-roof single storey with two linked rooms, an alcove and a deep-eaved earthen veranda.

A stone pit five meters square and three deep in a Tokamachi wood held winter snow through summer as cold storage for sake brewing. Edo-period, registered 2002.

An 1882 three-story plastered storehouse in Nagaoka's brewing quarter, its Taisho top floor framed with a Western king-post truss. Registered in 2013, still in use.

A middle Meiji earthen storehouse in Nagaoka's Settaya brewing quarter, registered in 2013. Black plaster picks out its cornice, and miso still ferments inside.

A plain gabled hut of 1885 northeast of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built over a laundry well and now a café with the old well inside.

An 8-square-metre tea garden pavilion on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, set on the path between two tea houses, its small hipped roof of tile ringed with copper.

A long two-storey storehouse of 1887 on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joined to the main house by corridors, with white plaster walls and upper-floor doors.

The 1889 reception hall of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata: 287 square metres of tatami rooms with few posts, opening onto a pond garden famed for autumn colour.

A thatched three-room farmhouse moved from Kashiwazaki to the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, with exposed beams, earthen floors and a projecting stable entrance.

An 18-metre work shed of 1883 north of the Ito family's main house in Somi, Niigata, built to saw timber for the mansion and now used as the museum shop.