Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

A two-story record store of about 1931 behind the old Aikawa tax office on Sado, with mortar walls, iron shutters and a king post truss roof. Registered in 2009.

A 1931 two-story timber tax office on Nagasaka in Aikawa, Sado, with a symmetrical front: central gambrel roof, gabled end bays, tall windows. Registered in 2009.

Early Showa concrete gateposts and a low side wall before the old Aikawa tax office on Sado, with a karato-men chamfer and washed mortar finish. Registered 2009.

An 1853 thatched chumon-style farmhouse in the snowy mountains of Joetsu, Niigata, registered in 2014, with a massive frame.

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, a 1934 sukiya house by Yoshida Isoya for the painter Kobayashi Kokei, was moved from Tokyo to Takada Castle Site Park in 2001.

A 1927 classical bank in Niigata faced in granite with four Ionic columns, moved in 2003 to the grounds of the Niigata City History Museum and registered in 2005.

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