Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Facing east on a hillside at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this hall of about 1915 opens its rear bay to look directly at the small shrine sheltered behind it.

Set on a terrace above the kitchen wing at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this Meiji building houses the office of the administrative head of the branch.

Joined to the rear of the Founder's Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this small Meiji shrine of 24 square metres carries finely carved beam ornament.

Standing on a cobbled platform before the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this belfry of about 1922 flares outward at its base and opens above.

Built in 1933 below a bluff at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this meditation hall sets matted platforms along both walls of a single room with a tiled floor.

Standing at the entrance to the approach at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this Meiji-period gate has no doors and spreads low side walls to left and right.

Facing west beside the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this long early Taisho kitchen wing of 513 square metres fronts an undulating gabled porch.

Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1915 entrance for honoured guests carries a curved tiled roof and a chrysanthemum crest.

Raised in 1907 on the stone platform before the Founder's Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this copper-roofed gate carries an undulating eave curve on both faces.

Attached behind the Hall of Worship at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 1888 hall for the guardian deity sits low beneath a shallow, deeply eaved roof.

Raised in 1886 at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 183-square-metre hall stacks two gables above its front and has a connecting beam carved in the round as a dragon.

Built about 1888 west of the worship hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this plain copper-roofed building is linked to it by a corridor and has fanned rafters.

Built in 1915 at the centre of Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this six-room abbot's hall covers 735 square metres, with a projecting veranda and a broad pantiled roof.

Standing beside the Kagura Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this open pavilion of 11 square metres shelters a stone water basin beneath a flat panelled ceiling.

The House of the Mishima Calendar Master, a late Edo house of the Kawai family who issued the kana Mishima calendar, displays its woodblocks free of charge.

A one-room Western-style building of about 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, just 18 square metres, with red pantiles, washed mortar render and plaster reliefs.

A single-storey timber building of 1933 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, the first raised in the rebuilding campaign, with carved transoms and a large hipped roof.

The largest of the seven registered buildings at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, with three banquet rooms below and a hall of 108 mats above framed in rosewood.

The innkeeper's own house of about 1935 at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City, three levels into the slope, mixing Japanese and Western rooms, with fine lattice fittings.

A two-storey timber wing joining Min'untei to the banquet hall at the Ochiairo inn in Izu City. Its record names Aoki Seihei, the carpenter who ran the work.

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