Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The First Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo store where soy sauce mash matures. Koji mould clings even to the timber here. Registered in 2014.

The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.

The Shop and Main House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo townhouse on Gobo's Shinmachi street, its timber stained red with bengara. It alone is open to visitors.

The storehouse at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo, two-storey dozo near the brewery's heart, its thick walls guarding tools from fire and damp. Registered in 2014.

The Matabei Residence Main House is a late-Edo townhouse in Gobo's temple town, its eaves bearing a local fascia, odare. It frames the lane behind the Betsuin.

The Matabei Residence Storehouse, built around 1930 north of the main house, stands on a granite foundation with a plank-and-plaster west face. Registered in 2014.

The Misoya Bekkan Upper Storehouse and Detached Guest Room in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in the mid-Meiji period. Standing on the grounds of Misoya Kimono Shop, founded in 1495, this distinctive single-structure building combines a fireproof storehouse with a formal reception room, preserving the refined merchant culture of a historic post town on the pilgrimage route to Mount Koya.

The Misoya Bekkan Shimogura in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a traditional Japanese earthen storehouse built in 1808 during the late Edo period. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this rare surviving merchant-family kura stands at the heart of the former post town that prospered along the pilgrimage route to Mt. Koya, offering visitors a quiet glimpse of two centuries of Japanese commercial heritage.

Discover Misoya Bekkan Main House, a registered tangible cultural property in Hashimoto, Wakayama. Built in 1884 along the historic Koya-kaido pilgrimage road to Mount Koya, this elegant Meiji-era merchant townhouse preserves the atmosphere of a thriving post town.

Mitsugon-in Karukayado is a vermilion Buddhist hall on UNESCO-listed Mount Koya, near the Okunoin approach. Belonging to Mitsugon-in founded by Kakuban, it preserves the moving Karukaya Doshin and Ishidomaru legend and the revered Parent-and-Child Jizō.

A roadside wall of about 1906 of greenish Wakayama blue stone laid as random rubble, over 18 metres long and about 1.8 metres high, finished with a shaped coping.

A single-storey retirement house of 1937 north of the compound: four rooms off a dogleg corridor under a hipped-and-gabled roof, with vivid red-earth gable walls.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1923, its white-plastered walls and tiled gable rising from a tall granite base to anchor the compound's western view.

A mid-Taisho earthen storehouse set east of its companion with its ridge turned crosswise, white-plastered on a granite base under a lighter pan-tiled gable.

The main house of the Yamamoto merchant firm in Kainan, Wakayama: a late-Edo living wing crowned in 1906 by a three-storey reception block with a railed veranda.

A small armed-bracket gate of about 1906, barely a metre wide, leading from the living quarters to the reception garden under a gabled roof of Wakayama round tiles.

Built in 1936 in Yuasa, a soy-sauce town, this steel-framed auditorium pairs a triple-arched porch with rhythmic ribbed side walls near the old quarter.

Built around 1933 by a Mio man who prospered in Canada's salmon fishery, this Japanese house with a clapboard Western parlor now serves as a town-run guesthouse.

A concrete gate and fence with washed-aggregate finish, pilasters and stepped coping front the Yushin-an house, a 1930s street face and Registered Cultural Property.

A tall four-legged gate of the mid-Edo period stands before the Important Cultural Property main hall of Risho-Gokoku-ji, the temple locals call the Great Temple.