Meiji
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Ikinariya's Sanban-no-ma, a compact 1877 room of about 40 square meters, pairs a kakekomi ceiling following the roof slope with a boat-bottom funazoko ceiling.
A 43 m late Meiji walkway around a courtyard in Niigata City: open posts on the garden side, and outside a textured black-plaster wall over a faux-stone base.
A late Meiji farmhouse in Niigata City remodeled in early Showa with a Western parlor, a mother-of-pearl Raden-no-ma room and a painted belvedere; registered 2007.
A late Meiji gatehouse in Niigata City: five bays long with a hipped pantile roof, a stone-paved passage behind red bengara doors, white plaster and deep eaves.
A late Meiji gate and walkway in Niigata City dividing two gardens: a carved crest over the gate, and a corridor open to the courtyard, walled in plaster and bark.
Built in 1876 and moved on rollers in 1915, the Ito Family Residence Household Goods Storehouse and Weighing Room in Gosen, Niigata, covers 114 square metres.
The Ito Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Gosen, Niigata, dates from 1879, covers 51 square metres and shows cut-stone footings and a drip moulding.
Built in 1902, the Ito Family Residence Three-Storied Storehouse in Gosen, Niigata, measures 6 ken by 3 ken, covers 89 square metres and fronts the village road.
The Ito Family Residence Main House in Gosen, Niigata, covers 259 square metres and was listed in 2005. Sources date the building to either 1891 or 1804.
The Ito Family Residence Barn in Gosen, Niigata, covers 43 square metres, the smallest of the six listed buildings, with posts set about 60 centimetres apart.
Built in 1908 as a works base for the Oyashirazu Tunnel, Niigata's westernmost station keeps its three-sided canopy and ridge lifeline fittings. Registered in 2023.
A 9.9 m² brick lamp-oil store of 1908 beside Ichiburi Station in Itoigawa, Niigata, with English-bond walls, sawtooth eaves and pediments. Registered in 2023.
A 1912 timber station at Oyashirazu, Itoigawa, below the Hokuriku coast's cliffs, with an upstairs rest room and slotted entrance posts. Registered in 2023.
The 1910 timber building of Nihongi, Niigata's only switchback station, with clerestory windows, a three-sided canopy and a truss roof. Registered 2019; in use.
A 1910 timber storehouse at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, with board walls now sheathed in steel, high windows and a king post truss. Registered in 2019.
A 9.9 m² brick oil store of 1910 at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, that held fuel for carriage lamps; brick cornice and pediments. Registered in 2019.
The Saito family's 1908 reception wing, re-erected in Hakusan Park at Niigata. Sukiya rooms, unjointed 18-metre beams, a buried water chime, and free admission.
Enjinsonsha in Sanjo, Niigata: the tiny cedar-bark study where Morohashi Tetsuji compiled the Dai Kan-Wa Jiten, now in his memorial museum garden and free to see.
Rather than a costly steel viaduct, engineers filled a ravine at Myoko in 1887 and drove a brick-arched stone culvert through its base. Registered back in 2021.
Built in the first autumn of Meiji, this single-storey townhouse keeps the older form of the Takada machiya, with a gangi arcade over the pavement. Registered 2012.