Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover Emi Photo Studio in Tsuyama, Okayama — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1929. Featuring distinctive early Showa-era architecture with arched windows and a semicircular reception room, this working studio also safeguards over 10,000 historic photographs.

Discover the Oura Shrine Torii Gate in Asakuchi, Okayama — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1927 from Kitagi Island granite, featuring calligraphy by former Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi. Explore its connection to Japan's only horse-racing Shinto ritual.

Set on a high stone platform in Yorishima, Asakuchi City, Okayama, Oura Shrine's Main Hall is a magnificent 1927 reconstruction featuring a copper-plated irimoya roof topped with a chidori-hafu and karahafu, lavishly carved with mythological creatures. Founded by the legendary onmyoji Abe no Seimei, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property is also home to the centuries-old Keiba Shinji sacred horse-racing ritual—one of the rare Shinto rites of its kind preserved in Japan.

The Ōga Family Residence Nikai-Zashiki in Okayama City is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that forms part of a remarkable merchant estate dating from the late Edo to early Meiji period. Discover this kura-style second-floor sitting room and the surrounding compound of seven cultural properties that preserve the legacy of provincial merchant life in Japan.

Built in 1698 by master engineer Tsuda Nagatada under orders from Okayama domain lord Ikeda Tsunamasa, this stone breakwater on Otabu Island in the Seto Inland Sea is one of Japan's finest surviving Edo-period port structures. Registered in 1998 as the first breakwater to become a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the legacy of a historic harbor that once sheltered Kitamae-bune trading ships and feudal lord procession vessels.

A 1919 timber judo hall at Okayama Asahi High School, built for the elite Sixth Higher School. Springs in the floor gave it bounce, and it survived the 1945 raid.

A cut-stone gate from 1900, the year the Sixth Higher School opened, with a 1,032-meter wall around the Okayama campus. Both can be seen from the street.

A 1930 reinforced-concrete book store beside its 1902 brick twin at Okayama Asahi High School, its cornices and windows matched so the pair reads as one.

An 1902 brick book store at Okayama Asahi High School, the elder of two fireproof towers, banded with cornices and iron-grilled windows. It survived the 1945 raid.

Okina Bridge in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, is a 1926 reinforced concrete bridge featuring Art Deco-style balustrade pillars. Its fully preserved original brick pavement, rediscovered beneath modern asphalt, earned it recognition as both a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and a JSCE Heritage of Civil Engineering.

At the centre of Oku Kōmyōen, a Hansen's disease sanatorium on Nagashima, this 1941 timber hall bears three arched windows and was listed for its striking design.

This 1939 wooden schoolhouse, Kōmyō Gakuen, taught children at the Oku Kōmyōen sanatorium on Nagashima, a rare surviving school built inside such an institution.

This 1949 granite pier at Oku Kōmyōen faces the mainland across a strait, the boat landing that linked the Nagashima sanatorium before the bridge of 1988.

This 1938 concrete cable incline at Oku Kōmyōen lifted supplies from the wharf to the Nagashima sanatorium, back when everything reached the island by boat.

On high ground at Oku Kōmyōen stands a tiny 1943 concrete hōanden that once enshrined the emperor's portrait, a rare survivor at a Hansen's disease sanatorium.

The Okutsuso Main Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1927, stands in the Okutsu Onsen district of Kagamino, Okayama. Its legendary Kagi-yu bath features water rising at 42.6°C directly through the bathtub floor — a foot-source spring experience found at fewer than 30 facilities in all of Japan. Discover this historic wooden inn beloved by printmaker Shiko Munakata and former Prime Minister Tsuyoshi Inukai.

The Okutsu No. 1 Covered Conduit is a 122-metre reinforced-concrete channel faced in coursed stone, built in 1932 on the upper Yoshii River and registered in 2006.

The Okutsu No. 1 Aqueduct is an 18-metre reinforced-concrete rigid-frame bridge of 1932 that carries the power station's canal water across the Kirotani-gawa in Okayama.

The Okutsu Oro-tani-gawa Intake Weir is a small 1932 gravity weir, 4.2 metres wide with an arched sediment outlet, feeding a branch canal of the scheme in Okayama.

The Okutsu Confluence Basin is a 160-metre reinforced-concrete channel of 1930 that gathers surplus and tailwater from the Kamisaihara station for reuse in Okayama.

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