Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Niigata

A 1933 intake pump house on the Igarashi River in Sanjo, Niigata: a timber cottage with a gabled porch hiding a 5.6-meter intake well. Listed 2011; interior closed.

A 1933 concrete gateway at the Osaki plant's river intake in Sanjo, Niigata: paired 2.1-meter posts with coping stones and splayed wing walls. Registered 2011.

An open-sided 1933 shed at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, where filter sand is washed; its columns are old railway rails forked into a Y. Registered 2011.

A 1933 pump house at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, with plastered walls, round-arched windows and a Lombard band; it pumps water up to the reservoir.

A 1933 concrete well at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, that receives river water and feeds the slow sand filters; 3.6 meters across. Registered in 2011.

A 1933 buried tank at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata, holding treated water under a grassy mound with six vents before it is pumped uphill. Registered 2011.

A 1933 hilltop reservoir at the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata: two basins under an earth mound with 36 vents and a classical machine room, serving by gravity.

The 1933 main gate of the Osaki waterworks in Sanjo, Niigata: granite posts 4.4 meters apart, wing walls and six subsidiary posts, 13 meters long. Registered 2011.

A 1933 meter house by the Osaki reservoir in Sanjo, Niigata: just 3.9 square meters, with a cornice and canopy; it once held a British Venturi meter. Listed 2011.

The main gate of Jigenji in Ojiya, Niigata, built in about 1892, is carved with waves, cranes and dragons; the temple is known for the failed peace talks of 1868.

The Jikoji Temple Corridor in Gosen, Niigata, runs 27.8 metres off the main gate: a white plaster wall with bell-shaped windows outside, open posts inside, late Edo.

The Jikoji Temple Sutra Repository in Gosen, Niigata, is a 1794 storehouse by the temple entrance, holding an octagonal revolving sutra case and a small shrine.

The Jikoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Gosen, Niigata, went up in 1759, four years before the main hall: an abbot's room, kitchen shrine and cook's quarters in one.

The Jikoji Temple Kokuzo Hall in Bessho, Gosen, lies 5 km from the main temple: a 1754 pyramid-roofed hall with an unusual interior and a February lantern festival.

The Jikoji Temple Main Gate in Gosen, Niigata, dates from 1785: a vermilion eight-legged Zen-style gate in a plain-wood compound, flanked by the Four Heavenly Kings.

In Gosen, Niigata, the Jikoji Temple Zen Hall and Common Quarters holds a meditation hall with sitting platforms and the monks' study rooms under one late Edo roof.

Built in 1763 after a fire, the Jikoji Temple Main Hall in Gosen, Niigata, is a six-room Soto Zen hall with an earth-floored veranda and a founder's hall on posts.

This small Jizo hall in Nagaoka, Niigata, built of English-bond brick in 1922, has arched openings, a timber porch and rare diagonal corbelling at the eaves.

The Shuseian storehouse in Ojiya, Niigata, an early Meiji two-storey store moved from a local family house, is built of heavy timbers to stand up to the snow.

The Shuseian tea house in Ojiya, Niigata, a late Taisho tea room moved from an old family house, joins its rooms with an earthen eave that recalls snow arcades.

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