Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Saga

The Ganshoji Temple Main Gate in Saga, dated 1912 by the temple, is a 4.6-metre four-legged gate with scroll-carved beams, openwork doors and flower lattice sides.

Rebuilt in 1768 on a 1696 stone base, the Ganshoji Temple Bell Tower in Saga is said to have rung the hours for the castle town. It still sounds on New Year's Eve.

Built in 1702, the Ganshoji Temple Main Hall in Saga is among Kyushu's largest and oldest Shin halls: plain eaves outside, carved transoms and a long beam within.

A c.1909 main house in the hills of Saga City with two hipped-and-gabled roofs set at right angles, a formal shikidai entrance and an altar room in wiped lacquer.

The oldest building on a Saga hill estate, an early Meiji storeroom with a formal tatami room that also lodged the village youth group. Registered in 2024.

An early Taishō pond fed by a channel on a Saga hill estate, held in U-shaped granite walls with a concrete footbridge, registered in 2024 for its fine stonework.

Early Taishō granite gateposts with edokiri corners and 55 meters of curving stone wall enclosing an old family estate in the hills of Saga City, registered in 2024.

Mid-Meiji earthen-walled sake storehouse in Hizen-Hamashuku, Kashima, Saga, with work floor, rice-washing area and koji room; the core of the Kuretake brewery.

Twin gabled workshops of the early Showa era at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, where rice was washed and steamed over a cauldron sunk in the floor. Listed 2021.

A tapering English-bond brick chimney about 11 metres tall, with a four-step moulded cap and iron-braced corners, serving the kettle room of Koeigiku Sake Brewery.

An early Showa koji room at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, faced in brick to 3 metres over a timber frame, set on a stone watercourse, under a king post truss.

Two brewhouses of 1920 and 1927 joined into a U-shaped plan of 955 square metres, with rows of posts and an open roof frame, at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga.

The Meiji-period Muromae, oldest building at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga: a 94-square-metre room in front of the koji room, on a brick plinth. Listed 2021.

A 1930 starter house at Koeigiku Sake Brewery in Ogi, Saga, with floor-level windows in every bay of its north and east walls and a half-hipped gable. Listed 2021.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Chimney, Ogi, Saga: a square English-bond brick stack of 1941, the tallest thing on the site, with two conflicting heights in the source.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Kettle Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 steaming house of 96 square metres whose monitor roof and exposed king-post truss came straight from the work.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Inspection Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1930 hut of 20 square metres glazed on three sides, built for liquor tax inspection rather than for brewing.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Koji Room, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 building of 67 square metres, timber-boarded on three sides with one brick gable where the heat had to be held.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Main House, Ogi, Saga: a late Edo plastered townhouse of 205 square metres, its front lean-to lost to road widening. Structure and access.

Koyanagi Sake Brewery Showa West Storehouse, Ogi, Saga: a 1928 store of 431 square metres, 34 metres long, now part distillery. Brickwork, boarding and visiting.

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