Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Former Joki Clinic Main House in Maibara, Shiga, was built in 1904 with a clinic at its south entrance and family rooms behind and upstairs. Registered in 2019.

Built around 1930 for a family of doctors in Maibara, the Former Joki Clinic Shoin has tatami corridors on the garden and transoms carved with a dragon and Mt Fuji.

The Former Joki Clinic West Storehouse in Maibara, Shiga, is a late Meiji plastered storehouse that held rice and grain for a family of doctors. Registered in 2019.

The Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse, built in 1915 in Maibara, Shiga, held a doctor's medical books. Its plaster walls bear the family crest and a relief dragon.

The Former Tada Family Residence Main House in Otsu, Shiga is a mid-Meiji townhouse facing a lane in the old post town, keeping its lattice bay and guard rail.

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this great hall frames its garden through verandas and Taishō glass, and now serves the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

This 1919 plaster storehouse stands at the northwest corner, with a boarded skirt, a separate roof over its core, and a notched eaves band, shaping the post-town street.

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this eight-mat tea room works round bamboo and fine woods into its alcove, and now forms part of the Ōmi Shōnintei.

Built in 1919 for the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this two-storey timber house lays out grid-plan rooms open to the garden, and now houses the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

The oldest of the five buildings, this 1892 plaster storehouse carries scrolling motifs and a family crest at its west door and a wave-formed eave on the east gable.

The 1937 main building of the Toyosato school in Shiga, registered in 2013, a symmetrical modernist design by Vories with a central tower, now open to visitors.

The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Storehouse is a late Edo kura in Otsu, older than the 1843 main house, valued for its careful details and charred-board walls.

The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Main House in Otsu is an 1843 thatched home of the lay leaders of Myooin temple, with a formal shikidai step by its earthen door.

The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Storehouse is an 1873 kura in Otsu whose gable faces the Myooin temple approach, with tall charred boards below white plaster.

The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Main House in Otsu is a Tenpo-era thatched house of the family that ran Myooin temple's office, prized for its rare passage plan.

Guzeiji Temple Front Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a four-legged gate of 1721, 3.9 metres wide, with a dragon carved above the lintel. It was registered in 2021.

Guseiji Temple Sutra Repository in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an earth-plastered scripture store of 1835 under a pyramidal tiled roof, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Priests' Quarters in Higashiomi, Shiga, is a timber temple house of 1805 covering 310 square metres, with a richly worked gable end. Registered 2021.

Guseiji Temple Priests' Quarters Gate in Higashiomi, Shiga, is an 8.8-metre late Edo gatehouse with rooms built into its length, registered nationally in 2007.

Guzeiji Temple Entrance Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga, roofs its threshold porch in cypress bark and gathers its carving there. It was registered nationally in 2021.

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