Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Three-storey timber photo studio of about 1932 in Takehara, Hiroshima, filling a trapezoidal corner plot by the old town, with a studio and darkroom on top.

A round reinforced concrete chimney about 19 m tall, built around 1929 by an Osaka contractor for the brewhouse of Hiroshima's former sake research station in Saijo.

A 1929 reinforced concrete brewhouse of Hiroshima's former sake research station in Saijo, with a tiled roof on steel king post trusses; interior closed to visitors.

A single-story timber rice mill of Hiroshima's former sake research station in Saijo, its roof stepping up three times to fit milling machines; now an indigo studio.

A 1928 timber lab-office of Hiroshima's prefectural sake research station in Saijo, with a pilastered porch and half-hipped tile roof, now the Shusenkan sake café.

Concrete gateposts from around 1929 at Hiroshima's former sake research station in Saijo, with washed-stone finish, stepped corners and old lamp brackets on top.

The main house of the Former Fukui Family Residence in Onomichi joins a hipped east wing of 1912 and a west wing of 1927, finished in sukiya style with prized woods.

The storehouse of the Former Fukui Family Residence in Onomichi, built about 1912, is a plastered 2-storey kura with drip tiles, joined to the main house.

The tea room of the Former Fukui Family Residence in Onomichi, added in 1928, pairs a four-and-a-half-mat room with a waiting room and shows modern tea taste.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, is a late-Meiji brewhouse whose 34- and 17-metre white plaster wings meet in an L under red tiles.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 1 Storehouse Chimney is a square Taisho-era brick chimney 24 metres tall in Saijo, laid in the English bond seen across the town's breweries.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 5 Storehouse is a Taisho-era brewhouse in Saijo whose north wing lines the lane with white plaster above notched-batten boarding under tiles.

Kirei Sake Brewery No. 7 Storehouse Chimney is a brick stack from around 1955 in Saijo, the only round brick chimney left in the district, tied to soy brewing.

Kirei Sake Brewery Gatepost is a granite entrance in Saijo, raised around 1955 with the relocated parlour. Its 2.5-metre posts pair rough stone with sharp corners.

Kirei Sake Brewery Western-Style Building is an 18-square-metre Taisho parlour in Saijo, moved by hikiya around 1955, with sash windows beneath a clipped-gable roof.

Street-front house of a former ryotei inn in Fuchu, Hiroshima: an early Meiji front with guest wings of 1905 and 1912 and a lookout storey; free entry to 2 floors.

Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima: 26 square meters of sukiya design with round and crescent windows, black plaster and bark-covered lattices.

Early Taisho annex at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima, registered for polished sukiya work: a prized-timber alcove, lath-lined eaves and arched lattice windows.

Late Taisho annex behind the Koishiki main house in Fuchu, Hiroshima: a 107-square-meter shoin-style building with an L-shaped roof, and the one annex for rent.

Postwar annex of about 1948 at Koishiki in Fuchu, Hiroshima, with a tea room under an L-shaped gabled roof, slender log posts and bamboo and woven ajiro details.

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