Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Shojukan Main House of 1814 is a thatched farmhouse-type merchant residence in Gokasho, registered in 2021, notable for a rare doubled tie-beam roof frame.

Shojukan Kawato is an early Taisho stone washing place on a village channel in Gokasho, granite-framed with steps down to the water, registered in 2021.

Dating from 1800, Shojukan North Storehouse is the oldest building on the estate, shortened at its northern end in the late Edo period and registered in 2021.

Shojukan Rice Storehouse of 1860 is the only store on the estate boarded below and plastered above, a skirt of timber against rain splash. Registered in 2021.

Built in 1865, Shojukan New Storehouse has the deepest plan of the five stores at three bays, the last one raised in the Edo period. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Shindachi of 1873 is the only building here listed for design merit, its raised chamber prepared for a princely visit in 1924. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Shinryo of 1933 pairs a mock coved ceiling with a four-tap sink in one twelve-mat room whose use the register calls unknown. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Nagaya of the early Showa era uses the perimeter fence as its only wall, with heavy reused posts inside and an L-shaped tiled roof. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Document Storehouse of 1829 is the largest of the five stores, its doubled roof and plastered band built to keep paper dry. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Mizuya, an early Meiji kitchen wing, keeps its granite floor, its well, its sink and two cooking stoves across 93 square metres. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan South Storehouse of the late Edo period is the only store here entered from the gable end, opening straight off a tatami room. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Hallway Tatami Room of the early Taisho era is eight mats that also serve as a passage, with a drum-shaped lath window. It was registered in 2021.

Built about 1935 in Shimoisshiki-cho, Higashiomi, Shiga, this munamon gate has a tiled roof with copper edges and a gentle mukuri curve. Carpenter: Kimura Tahee.

A late Edo townhouse in Kawara, Hikone, Shiga, refaced in 1934 as a post office with tiled walls, a mortar cornice and a pediment. Registered in 2011; exterior only.

The main hall of Takamiya Shrine in Shigaraki, Koka, built in 1859 by a master carpenter from Hachiman, is a fine medium-sized one-bay nagare-style shrine hall.

A 64-square-metre reception room in Aisho Town, Shiga, built in 1878 for the Meiji Emperor's rest stop and moved by hikiya in 1911. Registered in December 2000.

An 1911 timber banquet hall of 183 square metres in Aisho Town, Shiga, with six ten-mat rooms, boat-bottom ceilings and flanking corridors. Registered in 2000.

The first torii of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a great stone torii of 1894, marks the start of the approach and frames the mountain beyond.

The Eianden of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, a two-storey kagura hall and office of 1907 below the cliff, links to the worship hall by an upper veranda.

The ema hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, designed in 1925 by a Nara Prefecture engineer, is a plain, orderly hall at the foot of the precinct.