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A 1933 timber shop of the thread wholesaler Teraoka Itoten in Sano, Tochigi, with a hipped pantiled roof, plaster walls and a double-height front shop. Listed 2019.

The Nikko Kanaya Hotel Annex of 1935, by Kume Gonkuro, wears a Japanese face with a karahafu carriage porch and many-gabled roof over his own seismic timber frame.

The Sano Church in Tochigi, a timber church of 1934, pairs a Gothic-style front of rose window and pointed arches with Japanese bearing blocks on the columns inside.

The Hoto Upstream Sabo Dam in Nikko, Tochigi, a stone-faced gravity dam of 1952, holds back debris from Mount Nantai and enriches the view from the Irohazaka.

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.

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.

The annex of the Yamagata Aritomo Memorial Hall in Yaita, Tochigi, a Western house of about 1927 on his farm, has dormers, a pergola porch and a fireplace.

Small timber parcel store of 1935 at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, where goods sent by train awaited collection by owners.