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Browse Niigata’s cultural heritage from the Taishō period (1912 – 1926). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

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Former Kubiki Railway Locomotive Shed (Rolling Stock Exhibition Hall, Kubikino Rail Park)
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Former Kubiki Railway Locomotive Shed (Rolling Stock Exhibition Hall, Kubikino Rail Park)

A Taisho-period timber locomotive shed in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It runs about 40 whole metres from east to west over there even so today.

Akiyama Takashi Poster Museum Nagaoka (Former Nagaoka Commercial Bank Miyauchi Branch)
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Akiyama Takashi Poster Museum Nagaoka (Former Nagaoka Commercial Bank Miyauchi Branch)

Reinforced-concrete bank branch of 1925 in Miyauchi, Nagaoka, moved in 1952 and opened in 2009 as a free museum of posters by Nagaoka-born designer Akiyama Takashi.

Gyokeitei Front Gate
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Gyokeitei Front Gate

Ikinariya's front gate of 1914 is a sukiya-manner gate with a curved copper roof and korai-mon stance, a crane emblem carved in openwork above the door.

Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence
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Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence

The Ito Family Residence Front Gate and Inner Fence in Gosen, Niigata, pairs a 2.1-metre bracket-arm gate with 21 metres of battened boarding, listed in 2005.

Yahiko Shrine Stone Bridge
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Yahiko Shrine Stone Bridge

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Bridge in Niigata, a 1916 stone bridge over the Mitarashi stream, has a gently arched deck of 7 slabs and railings each cut from one stone.

Yahiko Shrine Stone Corridor
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Yahiko Shrine Stone Corridor

The Yahiko Shrine Stone Corridor in Niigata, a 1916 walkway 5.7 metres long between offering hall and main hall, was roofed only for the transfer of the deity.

Yahiko Shrine First Torii Gate
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Yahiko Shrine First Torii Gate

The Yahiko Shrine First Torii Gate in Niigata, a vermilion four-legged ryobu torii of 1916 at the end of the approach, is recorded by the Agency as 8.5 metres high.

Yahiko Shrine Ema Hall
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Yahiko Shrine Ema Hall

The Yahiko Shrine Ema Hall in Niigata, built in 1916, has triangular gables front and back and shows prize plaques from contests once held at a sports ground nearby.

Yahiko Shrine Gakusha Musicians' Hall
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Yahiko Shrine Gakusha Musicians' Hall

The Yahiko Shrine Gakusha Musicians' Hall in Niigata, built in 1916 beside the dance hall, has a raised musicians' platform and a deliberately plain tiled design.

Yahiko Shrine Guardian Dogs
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Yahiko Shrine Guardian Dogs

The Yahiko Shrine Guardian Dogs in Niigata, a 2.1-metre stone pair of 1916 before the Zuishinmon gate, were designed by Ito Chuta and modelled by Shinkai Taketaro.

Yahiko Shrine Drum Tower
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Yahiko Shrine Drum Tower

The Yahiko Shrine Drum Tower in Niigata, a small 1916 tower moved to its site in 1962, still has its great drum beaten 3 times a day, at dawn, at noon and at 10 p.m.

Yahiko Shrine Saikan (Former Imperial Envoy Lodge)
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Yahiko Shrine Saikan (Former Imperial Envoy Lodge)

The Yahiko Shrine Saikan in Niigata was built in 1916 to lodge the emperor's envoy, with a shoin reception room and four more rooms, a sign of the shrine's rank.

Yahiko Shrine Sanshuden Assembly Hall (Former Kagura Viewing Hall)
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Yahiko Shrine Sanshuden Assembly Hall (Former Kagura Viewing Hall)

The Yahiko Shrine Sanshuden in Niigata, built in 1916 as a kagura viewing hall, is a long tiled building beside the stage whose south shutters lift for the dances.

Yahiko Shrine Shikojo Attendants' Hall
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Yahiko Shrine Shikojo Attendants' Hall

The Yahiko Shrine Shikojo Attendants' Hall in Niigata, a 1916 duty hall for priests, mirrors the food offering hall across the worship hall, with a railed veranda.

Yahiko Shrine Sacred Food Hall
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Yahiko Shrine Sacred Food Hall

The Yahiko Shrine Sacred Food Hall in Niigata, the 1916 shrine kitchen behind the worship hall, has a palace-style front of lattice shutters behind a railed veranda.

Yahiko Shrine Sacred Tree Stone Fence
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Yahiko Shrine Sacred Tree Stone Fence

The Yahiko Shrine Sacred Tree Stone Fence in Niigata, built in 1916, rings the sacred tree in an uneven heptagon 32.8 metres long, with 2 stone doors at the front.

Yahiko Shrine Notice Board Stand
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Yahiko Shrine Notice Board Stand

The Yahiko Shrine Notice Board Stand in Niigata, a 1916 cypress structure beside the First Torii Gate, is about 3 metres high yet finely bracketed under copper.

Yahiko Shrine Kusanagi Subsidiary Shrine
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Yahiko Shrine Kusanagi Subsidiary Shrine

The Kusanagi Subsidiary Shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata, second in a row of eight, was rebuilt in 1916 after the 1912 fire as a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall.

Yahiko Shrine Chozusha Ablution Pavilion
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Yahiko Shrine Chozusha Ablution Pavilion

The Yahiko Shrine Chozusha Ablution Pavilion in Niigata, built in 1916 at the bend of the approach, has cusped gables at both ends and a coffered ceiling.

Yahiko Shrine Second Torii Gate
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Yahiko Shrine Second Torii Gate

The Yahiko Shrine Second Torii Gate in Niigata, a 1916 granite myojin torii atop the steps where the approach turns, is where the shrine halls first come into view.