Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Along the north edge of the Nishio compound in Sasayama, an outer wall follows the old San'in highway to a copper-roofed gate, linking the main hall to the tea house.

Zuihō Bridge is a graceful granite drum bridge spanning the sacred pond of Nishinomiya Shrine, Japan's foremost Ebisu shrine, in Hyogo Prefecture. Donated in 1907 by the founder of Hakutaka Sake Brewery and enhanced with bronze balustrades in 1922, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property embodies the deep connection between Nishinomiya's renowned Nada sake-brewing heritage and its most sacred place of worship.

The purification pavilion of Nishinomiya Jinja stands on the approach, columns rising from stone pedestals under a copper roof. Built in 1934, it predates the war.

The dosho-sha of Nishinomiya Jinja is a tiny one-bay building on the approach, its four faces filled with diamond lattice. Built in 1904, it is the oldest of the six.

The west wing hall of Nishinomiya Jinja mirrors its eastern twin beside the main hall. A small one-bay building of 1961, it completes a symmetrical sanctuary.

The worship hall of Nishinomiya Jinja is a reinforced-concrete building before the main sanctuary. Built in 1961, its wings enclose the ritual courtyard.

The east wing hall of Nishinomiya Jinja is a small one-bay ritual building facing the courtyard. Newly built in 1961 as one of a matched pair, it was registered in 2025.

The main hall of Nishinomiya Jinja, Japan's head shrine of Ebisu, is the country's only triple Kasuga-zukuri sanctuary, rebuilt in 1961 after wartime loss.

Beside the entrance of Nishimuraya Honkan stands the Ohiroma-to, rebuilt after the 1925 quake. Its eighty-mat hall spans a Western truss under a coffered ceiling.

The Hirata Wing at Nishimuraya Honkan was designed in 1960 by Hirata Masaya, a sukiya master. Its rooms share a single garden through sightlines that never cross.

At the south front of Nishimuraya Honkan stand a large yakuimon gate and an early-Showa wall. Local basalt, the stone that named nearby Genbudo, lines the wall's base.

Discover the main hall of Honjuji Temple, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the heart of Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo Prefecture. Rebuilt in 1931 after the devastating 1925 Kita-Tajima Earthquake, this Nichiren Buddhist temple features exquisite coffered ceilings and dragon carvings by the renowned Matsumoto school of Banshu Shikama.

The Chūsōdō at Kameyama Hontokuji Temple in Himeji is a nationally registered cultural property built in 1898 by the Imperial Household Artist Itō Heizaemon IX. Featuring a rare composite design combining hip-and-gable and double-layered pyramidal roofs, this hall is one of the few surviving examples of its kind in Japan.

Matsuso-gura is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, built in 1823. This Edo-period earthen storehouse is linked to Shinsengumi member Kawai Kisaburo and preserves the maritime heritage of Takasago, a historic Kitamae-bune trading port on the Seto Inland Sea.

A 1928 reinforced concrete gate with four posts on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, set back from the road to frame the approach to the Onzan Memorial Hall villa.

A 1928 concrete storehouse on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, north of the villa, designed by Kigo Shichiro to match the main house of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

A 151-meter reinforced concrete wall around the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, its washed-aggregate finish suiting the Western-style villa of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

Originally the servants' quarters of the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, this 1928 wooden outbuilding by architect Kigo Shichiro is part of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

A wartime reinforced concrete air-raid shelter on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, part of the Onzan Memorial Hall, with double blast doors and a domed ceiling.

A 1928 Spanish-style villa in Nishinomiya, home of industrialist Nitta Chojiro, founder of Matsuyama University's forerunner, designed by Kigo Shichiro.