Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Saga

Takeya in Karatsu, Saga, is a wooden three-storey restaurant of 1923, registered in 1998. Guest rooms fill the upper floors, and the eel is grilled without steaming.

The Nakashima Sake Brewery Koji Room in Kashima, Saga: a 37-square-metre Meiji chamber for growing koji, brick at its base, its door facing the brewing hall.

Behind the Nakashima Sake Brewery shop in Kashima, Saga: a mid-Meiji fermentation hall made of two storehouses joined into one room, with brick chimneys at each end.

The 1885 Nakashima Sake Brewery Main House in Kashima, Saga: a plastered, gable-fronted sake shop with a timber lattice, white shutter boxes and a tasting counter.

Across the old Tara road from its shop, the Nakashima Sake Brewery Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: three joined Meiji storehouses, its south doorway facing the street.

The late-Meiji Nakashima Sake Brewery West Storehouse in Kashima, Saga: a square, 2-storey plastered sake store with a brick-faced west wall, seen from the river.

The Nakano Family Residence Stone Wall in Tara, Saga: 97 metres of cut stone laid in two courses around 1909, running from the gateposts along frontage and garden.

The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Upper Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a brick cistern 6 metres deep in a hillside bank, the main store of spring water.

The late-Meiji Nakano Family Residence Lower Water Intake in Tara, Saga: a small, well-kept brick cistern in a hillside bank, repeating the upper intake's design.

The 1909 Nakano Family Residence Main House in Tara, Saga: three wings, a carved formal entrance and a waist-high alcove for chair seating, where Nakano Maki taught.

The Taisho-era Nakano Family Residence Water Tank in Tara, Saga: a small two-level brick tank that stored spring water and fed it by pressure to the estate.

The Nakano Family Residence Gateposts in Tara, Saga: two tuff pillars of about 1909, 3.1 metres high, with chamfered corners and moulded coping stones.

The Lutheran church of 1938 in Ogi, Saga, a small gabled timber church by the Vories office, is loved for the sanctuary that curves out from its rear gable wall.

Nonaka Usaien in Saga, a medicine merchant said to date from 1626, keeps a shop of 1796 whose great gable and hanging sign recall the old Nagasaki Road.

A plain but solid late Meiji storehouse on the north edge of the Maeda estate in Imari, built as a back-yard store, with part of its lean-to set aside for tools.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse of 291 square meters in Imari, built for grand village headmen, with a hooked kudo-zukuri ridge and a raised reception room.

A long late Edo mill building on the street side of the Maeda estate in Imari, altered in Meiji, whose two-story south end holds a gateway to the back yard.

A small late Meiji timber shed of 30 square meters on the Maeda estate in Imari, built for firewood beside the North Storehouse; its interior was later converted.

The largest storehouse of the Maeda estate in Imari, a late Meiji kura of 139 square meters facing the street beside the thatched main house, with a broad work area.

A late Edo earthen storehouse in Imari opening off the raised room of the Maeda main house: a zashiki-gura with one door to the house and two to the yard.