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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.
The Ota Family Residence Front Gate and Stone Wall in Sano is an early Showa granite gateway in a 3.9 m dressed-stone wall, its lintel topped by two carved lions.
A board wall of about 1950 by the JR Ryomo Line in Ashikaga, 21 meters long and 2.4 meters high, with a lattice bar near the top and braces on its garden side.
A small timber kagura hall of 1937 beside the great stairway of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, on a low plinth with a hip-and-gable roof.
The 1937 reinforced concrete main buildings of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with timber eaves and wings said to echo the Phoenix Hall of Byodoin.
The 1937 timber office of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with a cusped-gable porch and a basement that makes its cliff side look two storeys high.
A small 1937 purification pavilion on the approach to Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, built like the shrine in concrete with a timber gabled roof.
The annex of Kadoya Ryokan at Itamuro Onsen, Tochigi, a three-storey wing of about 1937, has Japanese guest rooms behind roughcast walls and sash windows.
The Yusenkaku of Kadoya Ryokan at Itamuro Onsen, Tochigi, a guest wing of about 1952, uses curious woods, round windows and hexagonal windows in sukiya style.
Matsugamine Catholic Church in Utsunomiya, built in 1932 to a design by Swiss architect Max Hinder, is a concrete church faced with Oya stone under twin towers.
A 1932 mortared-stone sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 25 m long and 17 m high, with a deep spillway and triangular wing walls. Registered in 2002.
A 1933 sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 64 m long and 20 m high, whose curved training walls and angled weir turn the falling water. Registered in 2002.
The former Nanma Hotel annex of about 1929, moved from Nikko to Mashiko, Tochigi, was the wartime refuge of the then Crown Prince and keeps its Gozasho room.
The Kogomedaira dam of 1931 in Nikko, Tochigi, a masonry gravity dam keyed into a gorge, is the uppermost of the Home Ministry era sabo dams on the Inari River.
The Sugita Sake Brewery Oya Stone Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, built around 1947 for sweet potato shochu, pairs lower Oya stone walls with timber above them.
The Tanuma Residence front gate in Ashikaga is a formal single-bay yakuimon of 1935, set back from the old Reiheishi road with wing walls and a stone forecourt. Private.
The Tanuma Residence outer wall in Ashikaga runs 84 meters along the old Reiheishi road, an exposed-post timber wall of 1935 joined to the front gate. Registered 2006.
Completed in 1928 on the Arasawa above Nikko, Tanzeyama Sabo Dam runs 40 metres across the gorge, its andesite face laid in diagonal courses. Registered in 2003.
A 1934 timber gate east of the Teraoka Itoten shop in Sano, Tochigi, used for bringing in goods: 3.6 m tall, 3.1 m wide, with board fences on granite. Listed 2019.
The 1933 two-storey main house of the thread wholesaler Teraoka Itoten in Sano, Tochigi, with eaves on both floors, a gabled porch, and shoin and sukiya interiors.