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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Nakano Family Residence Wall
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Nakano Family Residence Wall

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.

Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall

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.

Nagayama Honke Brewery Office (Former Futamatase Village Office)
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Nagayama Honke Brewery Office (Former Futamatase Village Office)

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.

Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty Memorial Hall
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty Memorial Hall

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.

United Church of Christ in Japan Shimonoseki Maruyama Church Sanctuary (former Japan Methodist Shimonoseki Church)
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
United Church of Christ in Japan Shimonoseki Maruyama Church Sanctuary (former Japan Methodist Shimonoseki Church)

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.

Hagi Station Building
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hagi Station Building

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.

Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hachiya Building (Former Shimonoseki Branch of Toyo Whaling)

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.

Fujiwara Yoshie Memorial Museum (Former Ringer Residence)
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Fujiwara Yoshie Memorial Museum (Former Ringer Residence)

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.

Hofu Tenmangu Shrine Main Hall, Offering Hall and Worship Hall
Yamaguchi 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hofu Tenmangu Shrine Main Hall, Offering Hall and Worship Hall

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.

Mutsumi Village Old Town Hall
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Mutsumi Village Old Town Hall

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.

Mutsumi Village Office Storehouse
Yamaguchi 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Mutsumi Village Office Storehouse

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.

Meirin Elementary School Main Building
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Meirin Elementary School Main Building

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.

Momoyama Water Metering Room
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Momoyama Water Metering Room

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Menservants' Quarters
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Menservants' Quarters

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Maidservants' Quarters
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Maidservants' Quarters

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Storehouse
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Storehouse

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Main House
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Main House

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Barn
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Barn

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.

Yamanouchi Family Residence Gate and Wall
Yamaguchi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yamanouchi Family Residence Gate and Wall

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.

Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall
Yamaguchi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Ryotei Takadai Large Banquet Hall

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.