Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Nakano Family Residence Wall in Shimonoseki is a Meiji tiled earthen wall 8.3 metres long on a dressed-stone footing, dividing the forecourt from the garden.

The Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall in Nagato is a late Taisho yakuimon gate with a 36-metre tiled wall on a stone base, lining a side lane of the compound.

Wooden Western-style village office of 1928 in Ube, Yamaguchi, with the assembly hall upstairs, a rare survivor in the prefecture, now a sake brewery's office.

Memorial hall of 1937 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, built beside the site of the 1895 peace talks in the Imperial Crown style; it displays the conference chairs.

A 1938 timber church above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki, registered in 2004, with a Spanish-style front of white walls, red tiles and a tower, still in use.

Timber Western-style station of 1925 in Hagi, Yamaguchi, with a porch, restored in 1998; now a free museum on Hagi and the railway pioneer Inoue Masaru.

Brick office of 1926, the Shimonoseki branch of Toyo Whaling on a headland over the Kanmon Strait, with geometric capitals; it recalls the city's whaling past.

Concrete house of 1936 built for Michael Ringer above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki; a plain white modernist design, now a museum of the tenor Fujiwara Yoshie.

The halls of Hofu Tenmangu in Yamaguchi, built in 1958, join a main hall and worship hall by an offering hall in a delicate and elegant modern shrine design.

The old office of Mutsumi village in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1895, is a gable-fronted timber hall with a hip-and-gable porch, a rare Meiji village office.

The storehouse of the old Mutsumi village office in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1896, keeps its plastered walls and Sekishu tiles together with the office in front.

The main building of the old Meirin school in Hagi, a timber school of 1935 on the site of the domain school, is now open free as part of the Hagi Meirin Gakusha.

The Momoyama Water Metering Room in Ube, Yamaguchi, a small octagonal brick house of 1924, is known locally as the hexagon hall and once wore a pyramid roof.

Lodgings for male staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with an inward-facing entry, two small tatami rooms, and three hooded windows on its outer east wall.

A small lodging for female staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with two tatami rooms and a board-clad back wall that doubles as the boundary along the street.

A two-storey plastered storehouse of about 1931 anchoring the street front of a Hofu estate, with a plaster band under the eaves and copper-clad window doors.

A T-shaped house of about 1931 in Hofu, Yamaguchi, joining reception and living wings under a hipped-and-gabled roof, with openwork transoms and a Western office.

A half-bay-deep storage shed and privy built about 1931 on a Hofu estate. Its board-clad back doubles as the north boundary wall, making it part of the street front.

A roofed gate and 48-metre wall of local pink cinder brick, half a brick thick with a sawtooth top on the street side, fronting a 1931 estate in Hofu, Yamaguchi.

Registered in 2024, the 1921 banquet hall of Ryotei Takadai in Hagi opens to about one hundred tatami mats with no pillar, spanned by a hidden Western truss.

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