Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tochigi

Raised in 1909 as a cargo storehouse for a timber shipping firm, this L-shaped Tochigi warehouse uses Western king-post trusses and now displays a festival float.

Tsuriji Bridge of 1917 carries the path to Inaoka Kannon Hall in Ashikaga. Built wholly of local granite in four spans, it is the city's largest stone bridge.

The Sano Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan, located in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, is a wooden two-story Gothic-style church built in 1934. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, it features a striking blend of Western Gothic elements — including a rose window-style circular opening and pointed-arch doorways — with traditional Japanese woodworking techniques visible in the interior bracket capitals.

Fujimoto French Kaiseki is a café restaurant housed in the former garage building of F.W. Horn, the American entrepreneur who introduced the phonograph to Japan. Located within the World Heritage area of Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, this nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Meiji era features a distinctive bungalow-style stone-and-wood structure where guests can enjoy innovative French-Japanese cuisine made with local Nikko ingredients.

The Hōtō Upstream Sabo Dam in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, is a gravity-type masonry dam completed in 1952 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Standing 30 meters high with a crest length of 53 meters on the Fukasawa stream below Mount Nantai, this remarkable structure features refined stone masonry that blends harmoniously with the surrounding landscape when viewed from the famous Irohazaka road.

A Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamato-chō, Tochigi City, this late-Meiji black-plastered earthen-walled storehouse stands along the historic Reiheishi Kaidō highway. Paired with the neighbouring Kezuka Paper Store, it forms one of the most distinctive views in the "Little Edo" Kura no Machi district and still operates as a working furniture shop today.

Ashikaga's 1930 waterworks office, timber-built with French tiles and dormers, overlooks the Watarase River. A guest room was added in 1934 for an imperial visit.

Built in 1930 at Ashikaga's Midoricho plant, this small concrete chamber received water pumped uphill and passed it to the reservoir, where gravity took over.

Completed in 1930, this concrete tank of about 60 by 27 metres lies buried under turf on an Ashikaga hilltop and still feeds the city below by gravity alone.

Built in 1903 as a middle school main building, Moka High School Memorial Hall keeps its weatherboarding and sash windows, and was lifted whole for a new foundation.

Moka City Kubo Auditorium, a 1938 timber school hall by Endo Arata, pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright. Twin towers, a low balcony, Tochigi's first registered building.

This early Taisho gate in Ashikaga screens the office entrance on one side and doubles as the storehouse forecourt on the other, linking three registered buildings.

Built in 1891 for an Ashikaga silk dealer, this two-storey shopfront keeps granite-dressed window sills and was hauled four metres back in 1978. Registered in 2005.

A 35-square-metre earthen-walled storehouse of the early Taisho era in Ashikaga, with a stone-faced base and clapboard on its two weather sides. Registered in 2005.

The Yamagata Aritomo Memorial Hall Annex is a refined two-story wooden Western-style house built around 1927 within the historic grounds of Yamagata Farm in Yaita City, Tochigi Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2021, it features a hipped tile roof, a south-facing dormer window, and a pergola-shaded porch. Together with the adjacent main hall, it preserves the atmosphere of an early twentieth-century aristocratic country estate at the foot of Mount Takahara.

This 1909 stone warehouse in Tochigi City stored the hemp the Yokoyama family shipped by river barge. Its Kanuma tuff walls and roof trusses show Western influence.

Built in 1909 beside the Uzuma River in Tochigi City, this timber shop and house held a ramie wholesale business in one half and a family bank in the other.

At the far edge of a garden in Tochigi City, this small Taisho annex wears a half-timbered face over rooms that stay Japanese beneath Western ceilings.

Completed in 1910 opposite its twin, this Tochigi City stone storehouse held the Yokoyama family records. Brick eaves and two tones of stone mark its refinement.

Built in late Meiji as the Nikko summer house of F. W. Horn, who brought the gramophone to Japan, this villa is walled entirely in andesite from the Inari River.