Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

A 1912 timber station at Oyashirazu, Itoigawa, below the Hokuriku coast's cliffs, with an upstairs rest room and slotted entrance posts. Registered in 2023.

The 1910 timber building of Nihongi, Niigata's only switchback station, with clerestory windows, a three-sided canopy and a truss roof. Registered 2019; in use.

A 112 m snow shed of 1922 over the switchback siding at Nihongi Station, Joetsu: old-rail frames clad in gapped timber boards. Registered 2019; seen by train.

A 1910 timber storehouse at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, with board walls now sheathed in steel, high windows and a king post truss. Registered in 2019.

A 1942 reinforced-concrete subway, 28 m long, linking the building and island platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with a timber stair shelter. Registered in 2019.

A 1937 platform canopy at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, whose columns are pairs of old US-made and Yawata rails welded head to head. Registered in 2019.

A 1935 timber waiting room on the platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with red walls, a white-painted exposed frame and glazing all round. Registered in 2019.

A 9.9 m² brick oil store of 1910 at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, that held fuel for carriage lamps; brick cornice and pediments. Registered in 2019.

Registered in 2025, the Main Building of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City is a late Edo farmhouse whose thatched roof covers a twenty-one mat Ochanoma.

The Shed of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City, registered in 2025, is a late Edo outbuilding split into a bedding room, a book store and a charcoal store.

The Saito family's 1908 reception wing, re-erected in Hakusan Park at Niigata. Sukiya rooms, unjointed 18-metre beams, a buried water chime, and free admission.

Enjinsonsha in Sanjo, Niigata: the tiny cedar-bark study where Morohashi Tetsuji compiled the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, now in his memorial museum garden and free to see.

Okozu Diversion Weir in Tsubame, Niigata: a 146-metre weir of 1922 at the Shinano River's flood channel, considered Japan's first full-scale concrete weir.

Rather than a costly steel viaduct, engineers filled a ravine at Myoko in 1887 and drove a brick-arched stone culvert through its base. Registered back in 2021.

A late Edo farmhouse at Hossue in Nagaoka, Niigata, registered in 2011: a hipped thatch roof 13m, an earth-floored niwa, a four-room plan and an attached stable.

Completed in 1935 and registered in 2003, this three-storey timber ryotei on Niigata's Honcho-dori pairs arched windows with woven copper walls and tiered roofs.

Built in the first autumn of Meiji, this single-storey townhouse keeps the older form of the Takada machiya, with a gangi arcade over the pavement. Registered 2012.

Okkonoki Main House in Ojiya, Niigata: a thatched chumon farmhouse of 1867 with fine tatami rooms, saved by its hamlet after the 2004 quake and run as a guesthouse.

The Onsen Onyado Ryugon Main Building in Minamiuonuma is an early Meiji farmhouse moved here in 1969, with projecting chumon wings, now part of the inn ryugon.

The Kaichi Shrine Worship Hall at Inari Shrine, Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built 1871 and moved 1969, honors the market's founders and has a porch shaped like a torii.

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