Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A two-storey farmhouse of 1830 to 1867 in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with an earth-floored kitchen, an old cooking range and a Taisho-era roof. Registered 2008; not open.

A 1957 tea room in Tondabayashi, Osaka, made from a sake barrel about 2 meters across, with a conical bark roof, an alcove and a round window. Registered 2015.

An early Showa timber storehouse in Tondabayashi, Osaka, 13 by 5.7 meters, joined to the sake brewery, with an open lean-to and log beams. Registered 2015; not open.

A Taisho storehouse about 18 meters long in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a plastered street wall and a tea room facing the garden at its west end. Registered 2015.

An early Taisho nagayamon gate in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a plastered rice store on one side and a 6-mat sitting room on the other. Registered in 2015.

The Ueda Family Residence Main House in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1933, sets a Western-style parlour beside the entrance of a Japanese house with a central corridor.

The Ueda Family Residence Annex in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1940, pairs a cedar-bark sukiya lower floor with a bay-windowed sunroom looking out over the estate.

The Ueda Family Residence Storage Shed in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1933 behind the main house, keeps the standard form of shed of the Higashi-Toyonaka estate.

The Udatsuya townhouse in Nishinari, Osaka, built in 1913, has plastered udatsu fire walls at its front and a sukiya-style entrance with round windows.

A late-Edo machiya in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from after the 1854 Ansei earthquake: single-storey, 374 square meters, with heavy beams over its earthen floor.

A Meiji-era wall on the old Kishu Kaido in Kaizuka, Osaka, linking a townhouse to its storehouse: 7.3 meters in 6 bays, with a doorway behind removable boards.

A Taisho-era tea house in Kaizuka, Osaka, joined to the main house by a corridor: a 4.5-mat room with mizuya, waiting room and toilet in 23 square meters.

A Meiji-era 2-storey storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, where the Uno family kept its clothing. Unlike the east storehouse, its ridgepole rests on horizontal beams.

A late-Edo 2-storey storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka, where the Uno family kept kyogen costumes for torchlit Noh at Gansenji temple. Registered 2003, 26 square meters.

Umetani Dental Clinic in Nishinari, Osaka, a timber building of about 1922, wraps a traditional townhouse plan in a Western front of tile and weatherboard.

The Edobori Kodama Building in Osaka, a concrete town house of 1935 for a cotton merchant, has a Spanish-style front and rooms stacked round a light court.

Late Edo main house of Ozone's headman family in Toyonaka: 271 square metres under a hip-and-gable tiled roof, with a formal entrance and latticed accounts office.

A Taisho-era outer wall, 9.2 metres long on a cut-stone base, linking buildings on the north edge of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka to guard it against floods.

A small late Edo storehouse on the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 4.7 by 3.8 metres, its lime plaster carried up under the eaves and accented in black. Not open.

Middle storehouse of the Ebara compound in Toyonaka, 6.8 by 3.9 metres, with a plaster band below the eaves and dense framing that marks it as a former rice store.