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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Former Nomura Family Residence Storehouse
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Nomura Family Residence Storehouse

Former Nomura Family Residence Storehouse in Yamaguchi: a clay-walled storehouse of about 1886 on the old Hagi road, built to hold a sake merchant family's goods.

Former Fukumoto Family Residence Stone and Brick Walls
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fukumoto Family Residence Stone and Brick Walls

Boundary walls of around 1926 on Suo-Oshima, 45 m long: dressed stone at the front, slag brick at the back, and square gateposts carved with a quince motif.

Former Fukumoto Family Residence Well and Water Tower
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fukumoto Family Residence Well and Water Tower

A granite-lined well topped by a 2.8 m brick tower, built around 1926 on Suo-Oshima to pipe water to a house's bath and kitchen; traces of gauge and pipes remain.

Former Fukumoto Family Residence Main House
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fukumoto Family Residence Main House

A 1926 timber house on Suo-Oshima built by a trader back from America: Japanese rooms around a courtyard, and a kitchen with an imported oven and piped well water.

Former Fukumoto Family Residence Storehouse
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fukumoto Family Residence Storehouse

A 1926 earthen storehouse on Suo-Oshima, joined to the main house with no inner stair, each floor entered from the house, its north face lined with windows.

Former Momoyama No. 1 Reservoir Inspection Gallery Entrance
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Momoyama No. 1 Reservoir Inspection Gallery Entrance

The entrance to the inspection gallery of the No. 1 reservoir at Momoyama in Ube, Yamaguchi, built in 1924 for a colliery, frames its door in a pointed arch.

Kinunkaku
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kinunkaku

Kinunkaku in Kikko Park, Iwakuni, is the votive hall of 1885 at the shrine to the Kikkawa lords, a two-storey pavilion ringed by a railed upper veranda.

Kuniyasu Family Residence
Yamaguchi 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kuniyasu Family Residence

The Kuniyasu house in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, the pre-1850 shop of a hair-oil maker on the old merchant street, is now the Honke Matsugane tourist centre near Kintaikyo.

Creative Space Akarenga (former stacks of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Yamaguchi Library)
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Creative Space Akarenga (former stacks of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Yamaguchi Library)

Creative Space Akarenga in Yamaguchi, a brick book stack of 1918 built for the prefectural library, is known as the red-brick house and became an art space in 1992.

Kozanji Temple Main Gate
Yamaguchi 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kozanji Temple Main Gate

The main gate of Kozanji in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, is a Zen-style four-legged gate whose frame keeps its mid-Muromachi form, though the eaves have been rebuilt.

Sansuien Main Building
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Sansuien Main Building

The Sansuien inn at Yuda Onsen in Yamaguchi grew from an early Taisho villa set in its garden, with later sukiya wings that blend well with the original house.

Sanmi Bridge
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Sanmi Bridge

The Sanmi Bridge of 1914 west of Hagi, Yamaguchi, a single stone arch of 16.4 metres on the old road to Shimonoseki, is known as the Spectacles Bridge.

JR Nishi-Iwakuni Station Building
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
JR Nishi-Iwakuni Station Building

Nishi-Iwakuni Station in Yamaguchi, built in 1929 as Iwakuni Station, has a porch of 5 arches evoking the Kintaikyo Bridge and rows of round-headed windows.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 1 Reservoir Intake Tower
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 1 Reservoir Intake Tower

The 1906 brick intake tower at Utsui No. 1 Reservoir, Shimonoseki: its granite-banded top, the 1973 roof change, height figures and how to view it from outside.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 2 Reservoir Overflow Tunnel Entrance
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 2 Reservoir Overflow Tunnel Entrance

A 1929 granite horseshoe-arch overflow tunnel portal at Utsui No. 2 Reservoir, Shimonoseki, crowned by a stone plaque reading 清波, clear waves, with viewing tips.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 2 Reservoir Intake Tower
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui No. 2 Reservoir Intake Tower

The 1929 reinforced-concrete intake tower at Utsui No. 2 Reservoir, Shimonoseki, with its domed roof and railed walkway, in contrast to the 1906 brick tower.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui Reservoir Office
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Utsui Reservoir Office

A tiny 1906 timber office beside Utsui No. 1 Reservoir in Shimonoseki, with weatherboard walls, tall windows and a curved canopy, and how to view it from the road.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Waterworks Archive Room (Former Hiyoriyama Water Purification Plant Office)
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Waterworks Archive Room (Former Hiyoriyama Water Purification Plant Office)

Shimonoseki's Waterworks Archive Room, a 1929 concrete plant office with curved mouldings and geometric eaves, now shows Burton's legacy. Visits by application.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Takao Water Purification Plant Receiving Well
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Takao Water Purification Plant Receiving Well

The 1906 brick receiving well at Shimonoseki's Takao plant, where water from Utsui 12 km away first arrives before the filters, with notes on arranged visits.

Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Takao Water Purification Plant Distribution Reservoir
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimonoseki City Waterworks Bureau Takao Water Purification Plant Distribution Reservoir

Shimonoseki's 1906 Takao distribution reservoir: two basins of about 1,600 m² roofed by brick arches in twelve bays under turf, with brick exposed on the north.