Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Saitama

The main hall of Hachijo Hachiman Shrine in Yashio, Saitama, built in 1891, is a carved hall whose side panels show the promulgation of the Meiji Constitution.

A late-Edo merchant storefront in Chichibu, registered in 2004. Low eaves, fine lattice, and a courtyard well of nationally listed spring water, free to take.

Built in 1926, three years after the Great Kanto Earthquake, this zelkova-framed farmhouse near Musashi-Urawa Station was registered in 2006. Exterior viewing only.

A late Edo gatehouse moved here in the Meiji era and registered in 2006. Zelkova timber and studded doors support the tradition that it came from Iwatsuki Castle.

A registered wooden archery hall in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 by the physician Takagi Tasuku, with arrow-feather window bars and bow-curved ceiling battens.

Target house of a private archery range in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 and registered in 2023. Fourteen square metres, open at the front, an earth bank inside.

Maze Dam in Honjo, Saitama: a 1937 concrete gravity dam, 126 m long and 28 m high, with a timber house on its intake tower, built for the Kodama irrigation canal.

Maze Dam Management Bridge in Honjo, Saitama: a 1938 three-span concrete bridge below the dam, its piers arched at the base and grooved for stop logs. Now a path.

Matsumoto Kyoshitsu Main House in Chichibu, Saitama: a two-storey wooden townhouse built as an inn in 1929 on the old Chichibu road, now used as a tutoring school.

A 1931 Kawagoe house with convex irimoya roofs, a coffered formal room, and a corridor splitting entrance from living space. Registered in 2014; exterior view only.

A 1.7-metre timber gate of about 1931 on Kawagoe's Hachiman-dori, with a gently convex copper gable roof and slatted wing walls. Registered 2014; street view only.

This two-metre gate of 1930 in Chichibu is a registered cultural property, with adzed naguri surfaces on its posts and a single tier of widely spaced rafters.

Designed in 1930 by Chichibu-born architect Yamada Jun, this registered house crosses gabled roofs at differing heights over a Western exterior and Japanese rooms.

A 1934 scratch-tile bank in Gyoda, Saitama, registered in 2005, built for the Oshi Savings Bank with decorated cast stone and few openings on the windy west side.

Monma Elementary School Slide in Miyashiro, Saitama: a 1926 concrete slide, 3.1 m high and 6.8 m long, with a polished artificial-stone chute. Registered in 2020.

Built around 1930 on a corner of Chichibu's Banba-dori, Yasudaya raises a mortar parapet with a cornice and acanthus panels. Registered 2004, still a butcher's shop.

The round kindergarten building in Warabi, Saitama, designed by Sakamoto Kanao in 1963, rings a central playroom with wedge-shaped classrooms under a roof terrace.