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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Kannonshoji Temple Shoin Garden Gate
Shiga 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kannonshoji Temple Shoin Garden Gate

An Edo-period timber gate at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is measured only by its own frontage over there, and by nothing else even now.

Kannonshoji Temple Bell Hall
Shiga 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kannonshoji Temple Bell Hall

A Showa-period timber bell house at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It shares its own structure with a bell tower at another temple even today.

Kannonshoji Temple Chozuya
Shiga 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kannonshoji Temple Chozuya

A Showa-period timber water pavilion at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It only covers some 1.5 square metres in all of it over there even now.

Kannonshoji Temple Fudado
Shiga 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kannonshoji Temple Fudado

A Showa-period timber fuda hall at Kannonshoji in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. What it once enshrined over there is written of only in the past tense now.

Furukawa Family Residence
Shiga 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Furukawa Family Residence

A Showa-period storehouse in Toyosato, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Its own windows over there face a different way at each single one of its own storeys.

Nidoji Shrine Main Hall
Shiga 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Nidoji Shrine Main Hall

Nidoji Shrine Main Hall in Shigaraki is a one-bay Kasuga-style sanctuary of 1703 with a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2003 as a rare Kasuga-style hall in Shiga.

Former Shimazu Serigano Gold Mine Mining Office
Kagoshima 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Shimazu Serigano Gold Mine Mining Office

A Meiji-period office at Yoshino, Kagoshima, Japan. Once a Shimazu family gold mine office elsewhere, it sets arches and clapboard under Japanese roofs.

Kyushu Electric Power Ota Power Station Main Building
Kagoshima 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyushu Electric Power Ota Power Station Main Building

A Meiji-period hydroelectric station building in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Of stone, with an octagonal tower, it bears the Shimazu family crest.

Arasomi Sekura
Niigata 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Arasomi Sekura

A Meiji-period shopfront storehouse in Tainai, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Three black windows face the street, and one thick post at its centre carries the ridge.

Ikinariya Storehouse
Niigata 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Ikinariya Storehouse

A Showa-period earthen storehouse in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It is valued here for being well loved as a view from the very road out there even so.

Yoshikawa Family Residence Storehouse
Niigata 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yoshikawa Family Residence Storehouse

An Edo-period storehouse at Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Its ridge tablet dates it to 1841, and it is taken to have held sake when the family still brewed.

Former Kubiki Railway Locomotive Shed (Rolling Stock Exhibition Hall, Kubikino Rail Park)
Niigata 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Kubiki Railway Locomotive Shed (Rolling Stock Exhibition Hall, Kubikino Rail Park)

A Taisho-period timber locomotive shed in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. It runs about 40 whole metres from east to west over there even so today.

Yoshida Family Residence Main Building
Niigata 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yoshida Family Residence Main Building

A Meiji-period town house at Kashiwazaki, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Entered at its gable, it sets four rooms in a row along a through passage, beams shown above.

Yoshida Family Residence Main Building
Niigata 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yoshida Family Residence Main Building

A Meiji-period main house in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. A ridge tablet over there gives the name of the carpenter who had built it even so even today.

Sojiji Karishinden
Kanagawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Sojiji Karishinden

Built in 1911 as Sojiji moved from Noto, the Sojiji Karishinden enshrined the founder's tablets and links by stair and corridor to other halls. Registered 2023.

Hara Family Main Building
Kanagawa 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hara Family Main Building

A timber main house in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Classed as Edo, its own year field over there nonetheless still reads Meiji even so now.

School Building of the Yokohama Junior High School Attached to the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University (former main building of Yokohama Higher Technical School)
Kanagawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
School Building of the Yokohama Junior High School Attached to the Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University (former main building of Yokohama Higher Technical School)

A school building of 1938 at Ooka in Yokohama, raised as the main block of a technical college and in use as a junior high school since 1981. Listed in 2000.

Toita Hall (former Toita Village Hall)
Ishikawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Toita Hall (former Toita Village Hall)

Toita Hall in Kanazawa is a two-storey timber village office of 1940, with clapboard walls and a mortar porch, registered in 2008 for its place on the Kanaiwa road.

Uno Pharmacy
Osaka 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Uno Pharmacy

A Showa-period shop on a street corner in Chuo Ward, Osaka, Japan. A timber building with a tiled front in the signboard style, it bears green Spanish tiles above.

Gengabashi Hot Spring Baths
Osaka 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Gengabashi Hot Spring Baths

A Showa-period public bathhouse in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, Japan. Divided at the attendant's seat, with statues on its front, it was recorded in use but closed in 2019.