Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

Raised in 1928 at the back of the Ariake plot in Niigata, this L-shaped wing turns board cladding, latticed windows and log rafters toward a narrow lane.

Built in 1910 in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, the front wing of the former restaurant Ariake keeps a curved porch and a second floor overhanging the alley.

Completed in 1924 behind a courtyard in Niigata's Furumachi quarter, this wing holds an eighteen-mat guest room with a burled log alcove post and a round window.

Villagers in the Niigata hills built this wooden gymnasium themselves in 1952. Its timber truss is open to view, and a mezzanine etiquette room juts over the hall.

Shaped natural stones stacked six courses and capped with coping form the wall framing the Kina saffron sake compound and giving Nagaoka's Settaya a street-side face.

Attached to the main house, this two-storey plaster storehouse carries saffron petals on its gable and dragons on its inner doors, an early work in the lime-relief craft.

Standing alone at the north of the grounds, this storehouse is the oldest survivor from when brewing began here, its gable shaped into the character for good fortune.

Behind a heavy gabled porch and its old saffron-sake signboard, the 469-square-metre timber main house in Nagaoka opens for guided visits on weekends and holidays.

Standing alone at the north, this single-storey rice storehouse shows a king-post truss inside and reopened in 2020 as a fermentation museum and cafe.

Iron sheet covers the roof, base and inner walls of this storehouse at the southwest corner, rumoured to have made fireworks though its original use is unknown.

Attached to the rear of the main house, this storehouse held the brewing tanks and raw stock, its four free-standing pillars carrying the roof over the tonic-sake floor.

Attached north of the main house, this storehouse held the drug store and bottling floor where herbs became the tonic sake, roofed on a queen-post truss.

The largest storehouse of the compound stands behind the main house, its six free-standing pillars carrying the roof over a floor of roughly 219 square metres.

Attached at the rear of the main house, this two-storey timber parlor greets guests through a cusped-gable porch and opens two garden-facing sides in glass.

The Former Kobayashi Kokei Residence in Takada Castle Site Park, Joetsu, Niigata, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property designed by Yoshida Isoya, the pioneer of modern sukiya architecture, for the celebrated Japanese painter Kobayashi Kokei. Originally built in Tokyo in 1934 and relocated to Kokei's hometown in 2001, it showcases innovative techniques that modernized traditional Japanese residential architecture while preserving exceptional Kyoto-trained craftsmanship.

The Former Daishi Bank Sumiyoshi-cho Branch, relocated to the Niigata City History Museum Minatopia grounds, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1927. Its granite facade, Ionic columns, and magnificent interior with marble and white plaster showcase the grandeur of one of Japan's oldest banks. Free admission.

Located in the historic castle town of Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, the Former Daishi Bank Murakami Branch Manager's Residence is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1936 as the home of the Murakami Credit Union president. It features a stately irimoya-style roof, elegant sasarako clapboard siding, and exquisite interior woodwork using precious kuro-gaki (black persimmon) timber.

Just fifteen square metres, this 1877 storehouse adjoins a soy sauce works. Note the set-on tiled roof, notched weatherboarding and black plaster window frames.

Built around 1947, two years after the Nagaoka air raid, this merchant house keeps a gangi snow arcade and a sukiya alcove of bamboo and polished logs. Listed 2018.

A 1938 timber house in Niigata City combining corridor circulation with upstairs reception rooms, registered in 2006. Privately owned; exterior viewing only.