Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

At 0.49 square metres, the 1860 Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Yonnosha Main Hall is the smallest of 12, with a coarse bark roof and a carved pine porch.

The Kanda Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse is a mid-Meiji clay-walled store built around its portable shrine, fronted by a copper-roofed curved gable. What to look for.

The Kanda Shrine South Gate, an 1889 koraimon 4.1 metres wide, carries its eaves on heavy cantilever beams and faces the road from Kaizuka Station. What to see.

The kyakuma at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era reserve guest room. Though a secondary space, it was finished with choice timber and registered in 2006.

The genkan at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, dates from about 1752, the oldest of the temple's four registered buildings. Its karahafu gable marks a formal entrance.

The shoin at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a late-Edo hall and the largest of the temple's four registered buildings. It looks two-storeyed but has a single lofty floor.

The taikoro at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era drum tower. A long range on a cut-stone plinth faces the street, and its tower carries cusped katomado windows.

This gabled timber house in Higashiosaka was raised in the late Edo period and moved to its present site in 1872. It was registered in 2006 for its landscape value.

Completed in 1931 for an Osaka steel merchant, this concrete house closes the view at Otebashi bridge. Its Tatsuyama stone facing matches the old Sumitomo Building.

Built in 1932 as a spinning firm's clubhouse to a design by Setsu Watanabe, Jisen Kaikan in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a Spanish revival hall registered in 1997.

A narrow three storey timber townhouse of 1928 in Osaka's Semba district, the Kitano Residence used tile, copper and udatsu firewalls against fire. Registered 2006.

A 1912 Osaka row house built after a tram line widened the road. Fireproof black plaster faces the street, a wall of glass faces the river. Registered in 2018.

A 1912 brick building of just 56 square metres on Osaka's Tosabori-dori, registered in 1997. Granite-framed openings, a low arch, and the tea salon that saved it.

Late Edo town house of a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, with an earth-floored hall, six rooms and a low loft with lattice windows. Registered in 2021.

Early Taisho two-storey timber Western-style house in Enokojima, Osaka, said to be a prefectural official residence, with weatherboard walls. Registered in 2006.

Meiji tea room named Gettoan on a cotton merchant's estate in Yao, Osaka: a rustic three-mat room for wabi tea and a later room for sencha. Registered in 2021.

Storehouse built in 1825 for a Kawachi cotton merchant in Yao, Osaka, called the cotton store on an 1842 plan; its white wall lines the street beside the main house.

Two-storey storehouse at the west edge of a Kawachi cotton merchant's estate in Yao, Osaka, with a plaster fan on its gable and reused beams. Registered in 2021.

Kyarabashi, an 1865 granite bridge on the old Kishu Kaido highway in Takaishi, Osaka, was moved to Takasago Park in 1988 and registered in 2008. Free to visit.

Built in 1953 as a coffee house a short walk from Tsutenkaku, Gallery Saikai sets a theatrical Osaka shopfront over a traditional townhouse plan. Registered in 2007.

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