Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Oka Shrine Norito Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a 9.6-square-metre gabled hall of 1892 joining the Offering Hall and the Main Hall, with lozenge-lattice transoms.

Oka Shrine Worship Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a late Meiji hall of 3 by 3 bays with a bare earth floor, a raised coffered ceiling and double-raftered eaves.

Oka Shrine Offering Hall, built in 1892 in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a seven-bay hall whose raised central gable and cusped porch answer the tall Main Hall behind it.

Oka Shrine Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a shinmei sanctuary said to come from Ise Jingu's 1889 rebuilding, moved here in 1892, with free-standing ridge posts.

Oku-Ibuki Hometown Folklore Museum in Maibara, Shiga: a thatched late Edo farmhouse that escaped the fire of 1836, where Noh is said to have been staged.

Okkin Mukugawa Community Hall in Takashima, Shiga: an 1881 thatched farmhouse with a hearth room, used as a community hall until general use ended in 2024.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Ukimido, rebuilt in 1937 after a typhoon, is a pyramid-roofed hall standing in Lake Biwa at Otsu, reached from shore by a 17-metre stone bridge.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Kannon Hall, built in 1766, is the main hall of Mangetsu-ji in Otsu, a small hip-and-gable hall with a diagonal tile floor beside Lake Biwa.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Guest Hall, built in 1754 by local carpenter Kichibei, faces Lake Biwa in Otsu and keeps a four-room plan with rooms looking onto the lake.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Main Gate, built in 1812 in Otsu, is a white-skirted two-storey gate whose doorless opening frames the Ukimido hall out on Lake Biwa.

Gyokukotei, the tea house of Kaimonzan Mangetsuji in Otsu, was built in 1937 with timber from the wrecked Ukimido and joins two tea rooms under an L-shaped roof.

Kagiro in Taga, Shiga: an 1877 restaurant-inn by Taga Taisha, with a sukiya-style three-storey guest wing and railed third floor. Meals and stays by reservation.

Late Edo earthen storehouse beside the Nunoso cloth shop on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with a separately framed roof and carved strut ends. Registered in 2013.

Largest and tallest of three late Edo storehouses on the Nunoso cloth merchant's lot in Hikone, Shiga, with a thick plaster band under its eaves. Registered 2013.

Late Edo townhouse of the Nunoso hemp-cloth merchant on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with curved eave brackets and wide upper lattice windows. Registered in 2013.

Smallest of three late Edo storehouses behind the Nunoso cloth shop in Takamiya, Hikone, Shiga, its plastered eaves still showing each purlin end. Registered 2013.

Added in 1933 behind a Taga inn in Shiga, this single-storey wing pairs a fifteen-mat room with a shoin bay and a cabinet cut as a temple window. Registered in 2002.

Built in 1924 at the gates of Taga Taisha in Shiga, this wooden inn sets an irimoya gable over a projecting porch. Registered in 2002 for the street it helps shape.

Gariban Denshōkan in Higashiōmi is the 1909 annex of the home of Horii Shinjirō, inventor of the Japanese mimeograph. Registered in 1998; open weekends, free.

Kawakami Family Residence in Otsu, Shiga is the western half of a 1933 wooden row house of 37 square metres, down a lane off the old Tokaido and registered in 2020.

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