Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A stone water cistern among the storehouses of the Hirao Family Residence, about 1.8 m square. Its drain feeds a 15 m rainwater channel that protected the stores. Not public.

A 10 m partition wall and stepped-up wicket gate from the treasure storehouse in the Hirao Family Residence, its two faces boarded differently. Not open to the public.

An east wall and bracket gate screening the retirement house, Hirao Family Residence. Posts carry a tie beam, boarded below and open above for a light screen. Not public.

A 25 m board fence and bracket gate closing the inner garden's north side in the Hirao Family Residence. Set straight on the ground, it completes the enclosure. Not public.

Discover the Tomari Shrine Noh Stage, a registered tangible cultural property in Kakogawa, Hyogo. This Edo-period open-air Noh stage, linked to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, features stunning timber framing and hosts the Kakogawa Takigi Noh firelight performances.

Discover Tomari Shrine's Heiden (Offering Hall), an Edo-period registered tangible cultural property in Kakogawa, Hyogo. Connected to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi through his adopted son Iori, this shrine blends myth, samurai heritage, and traditional architecture.

A Meiji-era wooden office in southern Sapporo, built in 1887, honoring Edwin Dun, the Ohio rancher who founded Hokkaido's dairy industry from Makomanai in 1876.

A single-arch reinforced-concrete overpass carrying a footpath over the Hokutan colliery's coal railway at Yubari, its deck tilted to clear larger rolling stock.

A reinforced-concrete viaduct of seven semicircular arches, each spanning six metres, built in 1951 to carry the Takamatsu waste-rock line at the Yubari colliery.

A straight concrete tunnel seventy-three metres long, built in 1951 for the skip cars that hauled waste rock along the Takamatsu line, with portals at each end.

The west portal of the belt-conveyor tunnel on the Takamatsu waste-rock line: a concrete face nearly nine metres wide framing a modest semicircular opening.

The brick portal of the Tenryu pit's material-haulage incline of 1900, its walls five bricks thick framing a semicircular arch with pilasters and a name plaque.

The brick portal of the Tenryu pit's man-car incline, where carriages took miners underground, eleven metres wide with a conical keystone, pilasters and wing walls.

Step inside Japan's only publicly walkable coal mine: a 180-metre brick-arched tunnel in Yubari, Hokkaidō, with a real coal seam to touch, vintage shearers, and an 1888 origin story.

The Fifth Storehouse is the smallest in the row. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with a stone belt course and doorways on both gable ends. Registered in 2006.

The Third Storehouse closely resembles its neighbour the Second, yet its king-post roof truss and raised upper floor set it apart. Built in 1921, registered in 2006.

The Koji-Making House is the newest of the registered buildings, built in 1922. A plain brick structure, it holds the koji room in one corner. Registered in 2006.

The largest brick warehouse at the Kobayashi Brewery in Hokkaido. Built in 1921, its gable windows, dentils and ridge tiles lend quiet ornament. Registered in 2006.

The Rice-Steaming House is a single-story brick hall where brewing rice was steamed. A brick chimney rises at the north gable. Built in 1900, registered in 2006.

The Fourth Storehouse is the only one roofed with pantiles. Built in 1900 of Sapporo soft stone over timber, with stone eaves and gable verge. Registered in 2006.