Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Omi Shrine Side Torii Gate marks the side approach at 5.4 metres wide. Its completion rite on 30 December 1940 closed the first construction campaign.

Omi Shrine Connecting Corridor runs three open bays from the Middle Gate. Its gable tucks under the sanctuary canopy, setting the rhythm of the stacked roofs.

The Echigawa Bridge of the Omi Railway in Shiga, built in 1898 and still in service, is a 239-metre steel bridge whose girders and truss show British engineering.

The Toriimoto Station building of the Omi Railway in Hikone, Shiga, built in 1931 by an old Nakasendo post town, has a broken half-hipped roof and Western touches.

The former Gamo District Industrial Promotion Hall in Omihachiman, Shiga, a Japanese-style public building of 1909, has a cusped-gable entrance and grand staircase.

A small 1943 well house beside the kitchen of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga, open at one end, with a room for a 1943 boiler at the other end.

The front gate of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga: a low 1936 munamon with a stone bridge and 47 metres of roofed fence, kept below the eaves of the house.

The 1936 main house of the Yamanaka merchant family in Hino, Shiga, registered for a corridor plan dividing Japanese and Western rooms; now the museum's main hall.

The larger of two storehouses at the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga: a 1936 earthen kura with a mizukiri ledge, board cladding and a hachimaki eaves band.

A small, plain two-storey storehouse of about 1936 behind the kitchen wing of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga, registered as part of the merchant compound.

A tiny board-clad storage shed of about 1943 joined to the well house of the Yamanaka merchant home in Hino, Shiga; at 5 square metres, the smallest of the six.

East of the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 dance stage is one bay square, with slatted panels on three sides and a pine painted inside.

Built in 1919 southwest of the shrine buildings at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 177 square metre office has a karahafu porch and a formal alcove room within.

Facing the kagura hall across the worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 hall for preparing offerings has an earth-floored entry and hinged shutters.

Built in 1919 before the main sanctuary of Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this small hall doubles as a gate, with curved gables front and back and 66 m of fences.

The 1919 worship hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, is open on all four sides, roofed in cypress bark and crowned inside by a double-coved coffered ceiling.

North of the offering hall at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, this 1919 earthen storehouse keeps the mikoshi, with a deep plaster cornice and small round windows.

Designed by Kyoto architect Kameoka Suekichi, this 1919 vermilion gate at Otori Shrine in Koka, Shiga, reproduces medieval curves in its columns and rafters.

Oka Shrine Tamagaki Fence in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a 52-metre roofed timber fence of 1892 on a stone base, with lozenge lattice in each bay, around the Main Hall.

Oka Shrine Purification Pavilion in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Meiji shelter of 7.7 square metres by the entrance, with inward-leaning posts and carved beam ends.

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