Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

The Rengebuji Temple Goma Hall on Sado, dated 1690 by its ridge tablet, is a three-bay hall for the Shingon fire ritual, linked to the guest hall by a corridor.

The Rengebuji Temple Jizo Hall on Sado, built in 1893, is the main hall of the sub-temple Hoshakuin and the first stop on the old Sado Shikoku pilgrimage route.

The Rengebuji Temple Bell Tower on Sado, built in 1615, is a skirted bell tower with a balconied upper storey that keeps Momoyama character despite later changes.

The Rengebuji Temple Taitokuin Mausoleum on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, finely carved and painted, beside the Toshogu.

The Rengebuji Temple Toshogu Shrine on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu, its whole exterior covered in carving and colour, housed in a shelter.

The Rengebuji Temple Dokkodo Hall on Sado is a gabled stone shrine by a spring up a side valley, with a stone inscribed 1622 and demon faces on its ridge ends.

The Rengebuji Temple Niomon Gate on Sado, built in 1822, is an eight-legged gate housing the guardian kings, with round pillars and plinths with donors' names.

The Rengebuji Temple Octagonal Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo eight-sided hall whose carved, three-stepped bracketing forms a dragon among clouds around the eaves.

The Rengebuji Temple Hassodo Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo three-bay hall whose five-stepped bracketing and thatch-form copper roof give it an outsized roof.

The Rengebuji Temple Mitsugondo Hall on Sado, built in 1844, is a small pyramidal-roofed hall on the Sado Shikoku pilgrimage, with carefully carved interior details.

The Rengebuji Temple Mumyo Bridge on Sado is a late Edo stone girder bridge on the path to the Kobodo, its 36 deck slabs carved underneath with Sanskrit letters.

A Taisho-era tea room relocated around 1960 to become a 45-square-metre detached guest room, standing on a stone wall behind the main hall in Kashiwazaki, Niigata.

Built in 1855 as a village headman's residence and now the main hall of a kappo ryokan in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, this 350-square-metre house was registered in 2005.

Built in 1850 as the honjin of Yakiyama on the Aizu Kaido, this thatched house in Aga, Niigata became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2024. Not open.

A small 1921 farm store on a stone wall above the old Aizu Kaido in Aga, Niigata, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2024 for its role in the landscape.

An early Meiji barn in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. The thatched roof is notched helmet-style to light the loft, and eaves ride on a projecting dashigeta.

A Taisho kura in Matsuo, Nagaoka, registered in 2007. A separate sheet-iron roof keeps the plaster dry, boarded screens block snow, and rice filled the ground floor.

Registered in 2000, this mid-18th-century Niigata farmhouse housed the Furuyama village headmen. Its T-shaped plan lifts a bell-striker roof over 349 square metres.

A 20-square-metre storehouse on a Niigata headman's compound, with a coffered ceiling and a Buddhist altar built into its ground floor. Registered in 2000.

Saieiji Rokuwatei in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a 34-square-metre hall of 1857. Once the main hall of the dissolved Eitokuji temple, it was registered in 2000.

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