Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late-Edo clothing store in Hirakata, Osaka: just 2 bays square, yet framed with heavy round logs and given a double plaster band on each gable. Registered 2017.

Built in 1910 as the "northwest store", this Toyonaka storehouse has a plaster karahafu and twin round windows on its gable and now hosts concerts. Registered 2008.

A late-Edo rice store in Hirakata, Osaka: a one-storey clay-walled building with a fire-sealed door canopy, two rooms and drip hoods on its gables. Registered 2017.

A late-Edo headman's farmhouse in Toyonaka, Osaka: 313 square meters with a nine-room raised floor and wide earthen floor, now used for concerts. Registered in 2008.

A late-Edo farmhouse in Hirakata, Osaka: a nine-bay core with a vast earthen floor, four-room raised floor, formal entrance and added guest rooms. Registered 2017.

Dated to 1877 by a prayer talisman, this Toyonaka storehouse has a formal tiled roof, a north door once linked to a guest room and tall board walls. Registered 2008.

A late-Edo gate in Toyonaka, Osaka, between the gatehouse and main house: 4.2 meters wide, with double board doors and eaves on bracket arms. Registered in 2008.

An early-Meiji tool store in Hirakata, Osaka, facing the main house across the yard: a long one-storey clay-walled building with a front canopy. Registered in 2017.

An early-Meiji gatehouse in Hirakata, Osaka, ten bays long, with a former stable, attendants' rooms and deep eaves over a plastered street front. Registered in 2017.

A late-Edo storehouse on the street in Toyonaka, Osaka, whose raised north roof makes one building look like two. Repaired after the 2018 quake, it now holds a café.

A 1928 fuel dealer's shop and home in Himejima, Osaka: house, shop and store in one row behind stepped parapets, scratch-tile walls and a cornice. Registered 2004.

Built in 1882 as a passage-through worship hall and moved aside around 1940, this small building at Ono Shrine in Sennan now serves as its office. Listed in 2017.

This 18-metre timber fence at Ono Shrine in Sennan divides sanctuary from worship hall. Dating from about 1882, it was listed in 2017 for its role in the precinct.

Built in 1941 by Osaka architect Ikedaya Hisakichi and registered in 2017, this hall at Ono Shrine in Sennan pairs plain boat brackets with an archaic gable truss.

Built in 1839 at the north gate of Kaizuka's temple town in Osaka, this merchant house shows staggered gables and a corner cut away by a later road. Registered 2003.

A twenty-square-metre tatami parlour attached to an Osaka merchant house in Kaizuka's temple town, built to front a storehouse that is now gone. Registered 2003.

A 1935 timber office of a spinning mill in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2007 and now a free museum of the mill and its famous women's volleyball team.

The Kashita Shrine Shinsensho in Izumisano, Osaka, is a tiny 1928 nagare-zukuri shrine facing the main hall, also called the gon-honden, and registered in 2024.

The Kashita Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 tiled hip-and-gable hall with a gabled porch and coffered room, registered in 2024.

The Kashita Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary rebuilt after a shrine merger, plain in design and registered in 2024.

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