Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

The 1909 home of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado, rebuilt from an older house and turned gable-end on, keeping the open void over the living room of Sado farmhouses.

The smallest structure at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a 3 square metre early Showa family privy of corrugated iron with a carefully built front eave.

The early Showa garden gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: a plain timber gate 2.1 metres wide dividing the garden from the family's living quarters.

A large mid-Meiji timber barn at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, 12 metres long with a side gate built into its west wall, older than the 1909 main house.

The 1932 clinic wing of the Mori doctors in Mano, Sado: a hipped-roof timber building with clapboard walls, bracketed eaves, railed gables and a green exterior.

A 12 square metre early Meiji earthen storehouse at the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado, older than the main house and walled in mortar and sheet iron.

The early Showa stone front gate of the Mori doctors' estate in Mano, Sado: 3.8 metres wide, with tooled posts, polished edges, rounded tops and no doors.

The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Raiden, Nagaoka, is a large 1878 chumon-zukuri farmhouse with its entrance and stable set in a projecting front wing.

The Morohashi Family Residence Main House in Niigata City is a chumon-zukuri farmhouse of about 1921, plain outside but built with fine timber and old beams inside.

The Morohashi Family Residence Storehouse of 1905 in Niigata City holds a rice store and a storeroom behind walls of exposed posts topped by a white plaster cornice.

The corridor of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a 23-metre cantilevered walkway leading visitors to the gallery.

The administration building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, greets visitors with deep eaves and a vertical lattice.

The exhibition building of the Ryokan Memorial Hall in Izumozaki, Niigata, by Yoshiro Taniguchi, is a low concrete hall with a veranda for Ryokan's calligraphy.

The Ryogonji Main Gate in Joetsu, Niigata, is a mid-Edo thatched four-legged gate, repaired in 1736 and said to be Kakizaki Castle's rear gate moved to the temple.

The Ryogonji Main Hall in Joetsu, Niigata, is a mid-Edo Soto Zen hall 22 metres wide, with an eight-room hojo plan, a double veranda and a bracketed inner sanctuary.

The Rengebuji Temple Omon Gate on Sado is a pair of cut-stone pillars about 3.7 metres high, built in 1928 at the north end of the approach as a landmark entrance.

The Rengebuji Temple Mausoleum Shelter on Sado is a Taisho-era gabled building that protects the Toshogu and Taitokuin shrines, its once open front now latticed.

The Rengebuji Temple Karamon Gate on Sado is a mid-Edo four-legged gate in the Zen manner, with main posts rising to the ridge, curved tie beams and a tall strut.

The Rengebuji Temple Guest Hall on Sado, built in 1909 after a flood, is the largest building in the precinct, eight rooms wrapped by a wide L-shaped veranda.

The Rengebuji Temple Sutra Repository on Sado is a mid-Edo earthen storehouse with a timber porch, a good example of a temple sutra store, lined with boards.