Shōwa
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Dairinji's storehouse of 1928 was moved from a blacksmith's lot in 1986. Its walls set namako lattice against black plaster, with crane-and-tortoise reliefs on the eaves.
Rebuilt in concrete in 1959 after a fire, this Joetsu temple hall pairs a barrel-vault roof and spires once called "Indian style" with a column-free tatami hall.
Nakahara Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a braced gate of about 1935 with a copper roof and 63 meters of wall on the north edge.
Nakahara Family Residence Front Gate and Wall in Akatsuka, Niigata: a 1935 bracketed gate with 69 meters of plastered wall, visible from the road year-round.
Built in 1931 at an 1846 Niigata restaurant, this two-story sukiya wing holds a tea room below and paired rooms above. Its gable screen won registration in 2000.
An early-Showa storehouse at a Niigata restaurant, with tiled namako lower walls and double doors stacked in matching pairs. Registered in 2000; now a dining room.
Completed in 1929 and registered in 2005 for its design quality, this scratch-tiled Neo-Gothic hall in central Niigata is a free museum you can walk straight into.
Oil magnate Niitsu Tsunekichi built this 1938 Niigata guest house for foreign visitors who never came. In 1998 it became the prefecture's first registered building.
This 1967 hall on Mount Ninoji in Shibata City steps its worship and offering halls up through one tatami room. Registered in 2024; it is also the trailhead.
The Ninomiya Family Residence New Inner Room in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1935 two-storey reception wing with a ten-mat zashiki and Western room, open to the lagoon.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Farm Building in Tawarayanagi, Niigata City, is a 1948 two-storey outbuilding on tall posts framing the homestead with its 1918 house.
Tsubame Church in Tsubame, Niigata, built in 1930, is a two-storey clapboard church with a former nursery below, a chapel above and round-arched windows.
Bannai River No. 13 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1934 after a 1933 flood, is the tallest of the registered check dams at 5.9 m. Registered in 2003.
Bannai River No. 14 Sabo Dam in Myoko, Niigata, built around 1934, is the uppermost registered check dam, symmetrical with four arched drains. Registered 2003.
Built in 1949 at the heart of the Hosaka estate in Tonome, Joetsu: a single-storey gabled house with a guest porch and a plain reception room with no nageshi beam.
A mid-Showa glasshouse for fruit and gardening on the Hosaka estate in Joetsu: posts on a waist-high block base, rafters pitched at 45 degrees and a timber anteroom.
An 8-square-metre tea garden pavilion on the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, set on the path between two tea houses, its small hipped roof of tile ringed with copper.
A narrow early Showa store in the Dairoan compound of the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built tall on long posts to hold food, with two doors on its east side.
A postwar sukiya tea house by Tanaka Taiami on raised ground at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, built to face Sado Island, rustic outside with fine beams inside.
An L-shaped tea house of 1950 by Tanaka Taiami at the Ito estate in Somi, Niigata, joining a thatched hut and a tiled study, seen from across the garden.