Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built around 1953 for the village's war dead, this small copper-roofed nagare shrine faces the approach, its doors and carved struts bearing chrysanthemum crests.

Built in 1940 to enclose a 1907 main hall, this tiled bracket-arm gate and 78-metre white plaster wall with vertical lattice give the hilltop sanctuary its boundary.

Dating from around 1782, the only Edo-period building at this hilltop shrine is an eight-legged gate with an open central passage and guardians behind lattice.

Built in 1907 below the main hall's steps, this copper-roofed worship hall greets you with a karahafu porch and carved struts; a plain offering hall sits behind.

Built in 1907 on a hill above the Inland Sea, this small copper-roofed main hall stacks a chidori gable over a karahafu porch and fills its eaves with carved detail.

Local sake brewers brought this deity from Kyoto's Matsuo Taisha. Their tiny 1929 shrine of 3.5 square metres keeps full detail: tapered posts and curved beams.

A 1937 half-through steel arch bridge over Lake Shinryu in the Taishakukyo gorge, Hiroshima, registered in 2011, built for a sightseeing road with a light design.

The Sanada Family Residence Inner Room is a 1928 reception wing in Mihara, whose great room turns its alcove shelves round a corner and uses prized timber.

The Sanada Family Residence Front Gate is a 1928 yakuimon on Mihara's old Sanyo Road, with a copper gable roof, frog-leg strut and slatted transom above its doors.

The Sanada Family Residence Main House in Mihara is a 1910s merchant townhouse on the old Sanyo Road, with black plaster walls, projecting lattices and slat windows.

The Sanada Family Residence Guest Room is a 1928 guest house in Mihara with a parquet-floored Western parlor below and tatami rooms and a railed veranda above.

The Sanada Family Residence Tea House is a small 1928 tea room in Mihara, linked to the reception wing, with a six-mat room, crawl-in door and varied roofs.

The Sanada Family Residence Storehouse in Mihara joins a two-storey earthen store and a three-storey brick store under a single coat of white lime plaster.

The largest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered in 2016, its 207 square metres of red pantile shape the street.

The smallest of three Taisho-era warehouses at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima. Registered 2016, it has no stairs: the top floor opens off its neighbour.

A Taisho-era storehouse at Sanyotsuru Shuzo in Saijo, Higashihiroshima, registered in 2016. Ten ken long, half of it open to the roof, trusses made of round logs.

This small early-Showa tea room off the annex covers just 10 square meters. Its two-mat space opens south and west to the garden, admitting light in a modern spirit.

This 1893 earthen storehouse pairs white plaster with a boarded base. Its projecting drip tiles, peaked at the gable ends, turn rain-shedding into crisp form.

Added in 1909, this reception wing opens to a pond garden. Its great room holds the finest carving on the site, including peonies with a lion cut from one Yakusugi board.

Built in 1891 by the Hozawa merchants, this is old Higashijo's largest town house, known for its layered yatsumune roof and black-plaster wall of flower windows.

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