Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Meiji earthen wall wrapping the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka for 31 metres, a 0.6-metre-thick plastered wall on rough stone up to 1.9 metres high.

An early Shōwa garden gate with short plastered walls at the Yokouchi house in Higashiosaka: a bracketed gate that divides the forecourt from the main garden.

East of the main house in Takatsuki, this early Meiji retirement house has a diamond-lattice handrail, an arched veranda panel and a four-square plan with tea room.

At the back of the Yokoyama estate in Takatsuki, this late Edo storehouse of 5 by 4.1 m has a round-tile roof, a south gable door, lime plaster and hooded windows.

Built in 1835 in Takatsuki's old castle town, this townhouse is the only surviving gōyado inn for villagers on official business, with dark lattices and white walls.

Beside the storehouse in Takatsuki, this late Edo earthen barn of 10 by 5 m has plaster up to its eaves, latticed upper windows and a pickling room off its lean-to.

In old Takatsuki castle town, this early Meiji bracket-arm gate, 1.3 m wide, and its 7.3 m wall share one low tiled eave and enclose a retirement house forecourt.

A two-story row house of 1915 on the street side of Toyosaki Nagaya in Osaka, bent into an L with three homes and an original railed window; registered in 2008.

A small Taisho-era two-home row house in Toyosaki Nagaya, Osaka, whose high wall matches the main house and keeps the feel of the old lane; registered in 2008.

A Taisho-era main house at the core of Toyosaki Nagaya in Osaka, with irimoya and gable roof ends, an earthen passage and a shikidai entrance; registered in 2008.

A tiny Taisho-era storehouse beside the Yoshida main house in Osaka, with a torii-shaped plaster door frame and stepped kakegonuri doors; registered in 2008.

A Taisho-era row house of four homes south of the Yoshida main house in Osaka, with irimoya and gable ends and one canopy over all four doors; registered in 2008.

The largest building of the Yoshida estate in Osaka, a Taisho-era row house of four homes behind a high wall matching the main house; registered in 2008.

A Taisho-era two-home row house at the south end of Toyosaki Nagaya, Osaka, with gently curved roofs, a stepped upper wall and original scratch tiles; listed 2008.

Minutes from Osaka's Umeda towers, a 42-metre Taisho-era timber wall and gate, listed in 2008, frames one of the city's last surviving nagaya row-house lanes.

The storehouse of the Yoshida brewery in Ikeda, Osaka, maker of Midori-ichi sake: a three-story plaster kura of about 1878, crowned by a Shōki roof figure.

The main building of Yoshida Sake Brewery, from about 1878, is a grand merchant townhouse in the old Osaka sake town of Ikeda, with black plaster and fire walls.

A registered cultural property in Ikeda, Osaka: an 8.8-meter black-plastered wall from around 1878, fronting a sake brewery founded in 1697 on the old Nose Kaidō.

A grand 1932 rice merchant's machiya on Kishiwada's old Kishū Kaidō, with a honkawara-tiled roof, a through-passage doma and rare koematsu pine fittings.

In the satoyama hills of Nose, the northernmost town in Osaka, this thatched village hall enshrines the Medicine Buddha. Traced to 1555 and registered in 2004.