Shōwa
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The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Nagaoka is a 1934 hip-and-gable hall on a stone base, with curved porch posts, a dragon and carved lions; registered in 2006.
The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall in Nagaoka is a 1.4 square meter nagare-zukuri shrine of 1934 by a local carpenter, with a dragon and curved beams; registered 2006.
A 1942 reinforced-concrete subway, 28 m long, linking the building and island platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with a timber stair shelter. Registered in 2019.
A 1937 platform canopy at Nihongi Station in Joetsu, Niigata, whose columns are pairs of old US-made and Yawata rails welded head to head. Registered in 2019.
A 1935 timber waiting room on the platform at Nihongi Station, Joetsu, with red walls, a white-painted exposed frame and glazing all round. Registered in 2019.
Completed in 1935 and registered in 2003, this three-storey timber ryotei on Niigata's Honcho-dori pairs arched windows with woven copper walls and tiered roofs.
Kappo Tochu Bekkan in Ojiya, Niigata, is a prewar Showa annex linked to the main restaurant at an angle by a skip-floor passage. It was registered in 2015.
A gravity check dam of 1927 below a tributary mouth on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 45 meters long and the key structure of a scheme registered in 2015.
A stone bed-control weir of 1927 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 26 meters long with a wide overflow notch and a diagonally laid face, registered in 2015.
A mortared stone check dam of 1932 at the head of the Kamakurazawa River series in Minamiuonuma, only 13 meters long across a rock narrows, registered in 2015.
A cyclopean concrete check dam of 1929 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, lowest of three dams above a channel bend, registered in 2015 at 31 meters long.
A gravity check dam of 1928 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, its andesite face enclosing a cyclopean concrete core, registered in 2015 at 32 meters long.
A stone bed-control weir of 1935 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 17 meters long and 1.4 meters high, lowest of the eight structures registered in 2015.
A stone check dam of 1930 on the Kamakurazawa River in Minamiuonuma, 3.9 meters high, battered face and thick crest, best preserved of eight registered in 2015.
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.