Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

The former Daishi Bank manager's house in Murakami, Niigata, built in 1936 for a credit union chairman, is a timber house with a carriage porch and fine wood inside.

The Gyokusendo Gangi is a Taisho-era covered walkway facing a street in Tsubame, registered in 2008. It is 9.2 m long and 1.3 m deep with an asymmetrical tiled roof.

The Gyokusendo Forging Shop is a Taisho-era workshop in Tsubame, registered in 2008. Artisans hammer copper on tatami beside hearths, and free tours are offered.

The Gyokusendo Store in Tsubame is a late-Meiji shop registered in 2008 for its design. Tatami rooms line an earth-floored passage, and it still sells copper.

The Gyokusendo Storehouse is a 2-storey Taisho clay storehouse in Tsubame, registered in 2008, with white plaster walls, a detached roof and stepped fireproof doors.

The Kuzuresawa Stone Chute in Myoko, Niigata, is a rare 1920s sabo work: a 12 m stone-paved channel on a 25% slope built with a ground sill. Registered 2003.

An 1827 clay-walled sutra store in Kashiwazaki with a hipped front roof, gabled rear, jewel finial and karahafu porch, housing an octagonal revolving sutra case.

The priests' quarters of a Jodo temple in Kashiwazaki, built 1751 to 1830: a gabled, farmhouse-like kuri with a doma and a large tatami room. Registered 2011.

A later Edo gate at the north edge of a Kashiwazaki temple: 2.7 metres wide, with its ridge set midway between main and rear posts, brackets and a carved gable.

A late Edo reception wing linking the kitchen block and main hall of a Kashiwazaki temple: two 8-mat rooms, an alcove, desk alcove and black-lacquered ceiling.

An open late Edo belfry in Kashiwazaki: 4 inward-leaning round columns on a tall stone base, three-block brackets, frog-leg struts and a coffered ceiling. Reg. 2011.

Built in 1758 and enlarged in 1809, this 343-square-metre Jodo hall in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, has a karahafu porch and 8 rooms in two rows. Registered in 2011.

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.

The youngest of Komatsuya Ryokan's registered buildings: a 1957 two-storey guest wing set in garden at Iwamuro Onsen, with zelkova stairs and bark-edged posts.

A small 1925 courtyard wing of Komatsuya Ryokan at Iwamuro Onsen, Niigata, whose alcove trim and shelves use black persimmon said to come from a tree on the site.

The oldest of Komatsuya Ryokan's four registered buildings at Iwamuro Onsen: a 1914 wing whose eight-mat ceiling is laid in three boards, with buried-zelkova trim.

The 1951 front building of Komatsuya Ryokan at Iwamuro Onsen, Niigata: a projecting hip-and-gable porch, a roof that changes form end to end, 3 upstairs rooms.

Saieiji Kyozo in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a mud-walled sutra repository of about 1848. Just 13 square metres, it holds an altar and scripture shelves. Registered 2000.

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