Shōwa
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A mortared check dam of 1930 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, one tread in a staircase of low dams on a straight reach, registered in 2015 at 29 meters.
A 1968 single-storey banquet hall at the Kansuiro inn in Agano, Niigata, said to be a moved Meiji farmhouse; deep upper walls and twin tie beams. Registered 2021.
Listed in 2006, the Former Aikawa Detention Branch Cell Building has 10 rooms off a central corridor: 6 single cells of about 3 mats, 3 shared cells, an infirmary.
Built in 1954 and listed in 2006, the Former Aikawa Detention Branch Office Building splits at its entrance: interview and examination rooms west, offices east.
The Former Aikawa Detention Branch Kitchen and Storehouse, listed in 2006, holds the stores, cooking area and artificial stone bath that served the cells next door.
The Former Aikawa Detention Branch Gate and Wall, listed in 2006, is the only concrete part of the site: a 5 metre barred gate and 113 metres of perimeter wall.
A 17 m early Showa stone wall at the old Aikawa tax office, Sado: fitted rhyolite up to 2.6 m high on the lane, rough walling with mine waste rock. Registered 2009.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.