Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

Saieiji Kuri and Corridor in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a two-storey temple residence of about 1848, joined to the main hall. Its shoin rooms survive. Registered 2000.

Saieiji Shoro in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a 9.2 square metre belfry of about 1848 on a high platform. Its bell still sounds daily at eleven. Registered 2000.

Saieiji Hondo in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a Shinshu main hall rebuilt in 1848 after fire. It is 19 metres wide, with a deeply carved porch. Registered in 2000.

A registered Meiji house in Sekiya, Niigata, raised after the Boshin War burned its predecessor in 1868. Exposed gable framing, bold beams, shoin rooms. Not open.

An 1882 earthen-walled kura beside the Nakanokuchi River, set on high ground against flood. Heavy rafters, close-set posts. Registered 2023. Privately held.

A late Edo storehouse said to have been moved to Sekiya around 1845. Its placed roof sits free above plastered walls, a fire defence. Registered in 2000. Not open.

A small detached room of middle Meiji date, open south onto a garden. Shoin alcove, tokonoma, a round tea hearth in the floor. Registered 2023. Not open.

The Sakata residence main house in Gosen, Niigata, once home to village headmen. Its 20-metre frontage and hipped-and-gabled roof mark a wealthy farming family's rank.

The Sakata family's timber new storehouse in Gosen, Niigata. Exposed close-set pillars and a black-plaster dado mark an unusually careful early-Showa kura.

A compost and livestock shed at the Sakata grounds in Gosen, Niigata. Rough walls and an exposed frame make this rare working building part of a wealthy farmstead.

An earthen-walled storehouse on the Sakata grounds in Gosen, Niigata. Thick plastered walls and closely set pillars make a fireproof dozo, unlike the timber kura nearby.

The oldest of the five Sakata buildings in Gosen, Niigata, dating to early Meiji. Small but soundly built, its black-plastered openings open the estate's history.

The office building of Sasaiwai Sake Brewery in Niigata, built about 1901, shows a grand gabled front to the old highway, with a shop below and brewers' rooms above.

The brick chimney of Sasaiwai Sake Brewery in Niigata, built in the late Meiji era, is a 12-metre hexagonal shaft in English bond and a landmark of the area.

The Sasaguchi Family Main House in Niigata, built in 1935 for a sake-brewing family, is a large modern Japanese house with fine tatami rooms and an Art Deco room.

The Sano Shoten Store and Residence in Nuttari, Niigata, is a 1937 corner merchant house with bracketed eaves and vertical board siding of local tradition.

Sankoji Temple Main Hall in Shibata, Niigata: a Pure Land hall of 1916 on Teramachi street, with polished log pillars and a tall interior free of tie beams.

Three slow sand filter beds in use at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, since 1933, 70.9 meters by 28 meters with coping-stone edges. Registered in 2011.

A 1933 two-family staff house inside the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, with a hipped tile roof and weatherboard walls. Listed 2011; seen at spring openings.

The 1933 timber office at the heart of the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, whose curved red-tile roof recalls a Shinto shrine. Listed 2011; see it from the gate.

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