Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tochigi

A Meiji merchant house facing the old highway at Kaemoncho in Tochigi, its gable end met by a hipped roof above a projecting eave. Listed as heritage in 2008.

A Meiji storehouse west of its neighbour on the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, its plastered north wall running on into the next building. Listed in 2004.

A single-storey Meiji house on the south side of the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, built as a retirement residence for the third Denbei. Listed in 2004.

A Meiji storehouse on the north side of the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, its lean-to wall running on into a tuff boundary wall. Listed as heritage in 2004.

An 1885 storehouse on the north side of the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, three floors inside and two from without, built by the local master Mitomi Seibei.

An Edo-period main house in Shimotsuke, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Given to the city over there, it was then moved right to a park even so even today.

Tunnel of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway under the Gunma-Tochigi border, 362 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, with a brick arch and six refuges.

The Ashio Christian Church in Nikko, Tochigi, built in 1908, was the copper town's first full-scale church and is its only survivor, with a pastor's home attached.

The Ashio Copper Mine Telephone Museum in Nikko, a 1951 exchange at the mine that had Japan's first private telephone in 1886, looks like a modern house of its day.

Built in 1924 behind the family shop in Kauemon-cho, Tochigi City, this two-storey house glazes the whole south face of its upper verandah. Registered in 2004.

This 1924 shop on the old Nikko Reiheishi road in Tochigi City raises a tuff-stone gable above its roofline as a fire wall, an udatsu in stone. Registered 2004.

Oldest building on this Tochigi City merchant plot, an 1895 storehouse divided into a document store and a goods store, its carpenter named in ink. Registered 2004.

Ashikaga's Oya-stone mill of 1903, with arched windows and a double sawtooth roof, is the sole survivor of six model silk-throwing mills built under Meiji policy.

Built around 1907, the back gate of the Iizuka new residence is timber with a pantile gabled roof. Though at the rear, it is large and finely built.

Built of granite around 1907, the Iizuka new residence front gate has tile-roofed board fences on stone bases. Its tall single-stone posts signal the family's rank.

The Shintaku main house of the Iizuka residence in Bato, built around 1907, shows an early modern feel in its orderly plan and refined reception rooms.

The courtyard gate of the Iizuka new residence, built around 1908, links storehouse and main house, enclosing an inner garden behind openwork lattice fences.

A two-story dozo built in 1908 behind the Iizuka main house, this storehouse was plastered even over its timber for fire safety. It is now a loft-style guest room.

From the late Edo period, the Iizuka main residence front gate is the compound's oldest structure. The main house is gone, but this large munamon gate survives.

The Inari River Third Sabo Dam in Nikko (1921) runs 76 m straight across the valley; its broad 3.3 m crest shows how early dams were built to resist boulders.

Tochigi’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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