Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

The Fujii Honke sake storehouse is the largest of the group at some 728 square meters. Its L-shaped plan holds the kettle room and links the small inspection rooms.

A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. Built around 1884 purely for guests, its 24-mat hall opens onto a veranda facing a garden of Mount Fuji lava.

A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. This 23-square-metre plastered storehouse opens off the main house passage, its door sealed by stepped plaster.

A registered cultural property in Nagahama, Shiga. Built around 1884 as a merchant family villa, its walls are plastered to the eaves and its windows iron-grilled.

A 1933 timber row house at the end of a bent lane in Otsu, Shiga. Built for two households, now one, it keeps both doorways. Registered 2020; a private home, closed.

An early Showa timber annex behind the registered ryotei in Kusatsu, Shiga. Its ground-floor hall carries a coved coffered ceiling, and verandas wrap both floors.

The street wall of a registered ryotei in Kusatsu, Shiga, built around 1936 and running eleven metres. Knotted log posts stand on cut stone below red plaster.

A 1936 timber ryotei on a Kusatsu street corner, registered in 2008. Red plaster closes the street front; the garden side opens to an 80-mat hall with a stage.

An 1857 townhouse facing the old Nakasendo in Takamiya, Hikone, with its gable to the street, a broad earth-floored passage, eight rooms and a plastered facade.

A 20-meter roofed wall of the early Showa period enclosing a townhouse garden in Takamiya, Hikone, rising 3.1 meters above the stone bank of a small waterway.

An 1853 two-storey earthen storehouse in Takamiya, Hikone, older than the main house, with a plaster dragon on its door frame and walls sealed to the eaves.

An early Showa bracketed gate with a sliding door and short board walls, set on the old Nakasendo before an 1857 townhouse in Takamiya, Hikone, Shiga Prefecture.

Hogonji's 1942 main hall on Chikubushima, designed by Inui Kanematsu after the old hall went to the shrine in Meiji, with murals by Arai Kampo. Registered in 2025.

Early Meiji workshop where rice was washed and steamed at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman. Timber walls and a roof vent mark it out. Registered 2022.

Early Meiji home of the old Nishikatsu sake brewery in Omihachiman. Its wide frontage, clay-screened windows and udatsu firewall shape the street. Registered 2022.

Brewing storehouse built in 1959 at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman: concrete below, timber above, mortar walls and queen-post trusses. Registered 2022.

Mid Showa storehouse where koji was made at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman. Lime plaster outside, sealed with boards inside for warmth. Registered 2022.

Early Meiji bottling storehouse at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman, extended again and again until its roof stepped down in three stages. Registered 2022.

Pressing room built in 1911 at the old Nishikatsu brewery in Omihachiman, an earthen storehouse with a trussed roof. Now a rental hall with a stage for events.

Built in 1741, the oldest of nine buildings at the old Nishikatsu sake brewery in Omihachiman. Once lodging for brewery workers, it is now the Koyomi craft shop.