Meiji
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The 1893 shop-house of Sosendo, a working sweet shop on the old main street of Murakami, Niigata, with a shop room in front and an open living room. Registered 2005.
A two-storey clay-walled store of 1887 behind the Sosendo sweet shop in Murakami, Niigata, older than the main house, with a detached roof and black plaster bands.
The main hall of Dairinji is the third on its site, rebuilt in 1883 after fire and war. A plain six-room Zen frame reserves its carved brackets for the altar zone.
Takahashi Ameya Main House in Joetsu, Niigata: an 1875 townhouse on the Hokkoku Kaido with a gangi snow arcade, still the shop of a candy maker founded in 1624.
Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Corridor and Pilgrimage Station runs 17 metres beside the steps and rises at its north end into a two-storey pilgrim desk.
Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Goma Hall is a 67 square metre hall facing the approach, its fire altar set before a Fudo Myoo figure of the late Heian period.
Chotokuji Temple Priests' Quarters in Shibata, Niigata, a mid-Meiji wing west of the main hall, holds a 24-mat guest room and two goten suites. Registered 2017.
Chotokuji Temple Bell Tower in Shibata, Niigata, a Meiji-period belfry, has waves and chrysanthemums carved only on its approach side and a wave-carved gable board.
Niigata burned twice in 1908. Rebuilding two years later, this restaurant raised a brick storehouse in header bond, its fire wall rising above the tiled roof.
A brick gate of 1904 facing the old Mikuni Kaido highway, its English-bond piers crowned with a carved stone band and a dentil capstone. Registered in 2022.
A brick building of nineteen square metres, built in 1907 to store, clean and refuel the kerosene lamps used by boarders at Kamo Agriculture and Forestry School.
Registered in 2008, this late Meiji brick gate in Gosen City sets English bond beside Flemish bond at the prefecture's first technical school of 1903.
A 149-metre brick wall of 1911 steps down Niigata's dune slope beside the 1914 gate that students call the Akamon. The two were registered together in 2005.
The Ninomiya Family Residence No. 1 Rice Storehouse in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1875 rice store 17 and a half bays long, 267 square metres, with a full-length eave.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 1 in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1875 two-storey document store with a family crest on its gable and stepped doors.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Great Gate and Wall in Seiro, Niigata, is an 1877 row-house gate, raised in 1935 and given a roofed wall turning toward the Main House.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 5 in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1908 two-storey storehouse ending a row of four, with namako-kabe and stacked windows.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Miscellaneous Storehouse in Seiro, Niigata, is a small 1875 store clad high in vertical boards, with a single gable window at the back.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Storehouse No. 3 in Seiro, Niigata, is a 1901 two-storey storehouse with namako-kabe and a plaster family crest high on its east gable.
The Ninomiya Family Residence Main House in Seiro, Niigata, rebuilt in 1884 after a lightning fire, spans 756 square metres facing the Seisho-en garden and lagoon.