Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Fujiya Ryokan Stone Steps in Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 flight 2.1 m wide to match the gate above, with thick slab treads and a north face near tortoise-shell masonry.

Fujiya Ryokan Main House, Kannawa, Beppu: an 1898 two-storey timber inn of two hipped wings, keeping its old shikidai entrance. Now a café and hall; registered 2001.

Fujiya Ryokan Front Gate in Kannawa, Beppu: a 2.1 m yakuimon of 1898 set atop stone steps, facing the inn's old formal entrance as an eye-stop. Registered in 2001.

The Bungo Channel Maritime Museum in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture, is a Western-style brick building constructed in 1904 as a rest house for the keepers of the Mizunokojima Lighthouse. Designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era structure now houses fascinating exhibits including a Fresnel lens formerly used in the lighthouse and a unique collection of migratory bird specimens, preserving the maritime heritage of the Bungo Channel.

A 172-meter stone perimeter wall built in 1904 on the Tsurumi Peninsula in Saiki City, Oita Prefecture. Originally enclosing the rest house compound of lighthouse keepers who maintained the Mizunokojima Lighthouse in the Bungo Strait, the wall features distinctive concrete cap stones and has been a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 1998. The adjacent Maritime Museum displays the lighthouse's Fresnel lens and exhibits on the lives of the keepers.

An octagonal 14-square-meter well house at Beppu's Asami plant with a domed roof and curved pediment. Dated 1917; the city calls it a second well house of 1927.

A 985-square-meter concrete reservoir at Beppu's Asami water plant, edged with a stone coping. Dated 1917 by the Agency; the city credits its 1920s expansion.

A 13-square-meter concrete maintenance hut of 1926 on the north side of the Asami reservoir in Beppu, framed by pilasters on square bases with unusual capitals.

A 13-square-meter concrete maintenance hut of 1926 on the south side of the Asami reservoir in Beppu, with pebbled araidashi walls and arched side windows.

A 17-square-meter classical meter house of 1927 on low ground north of Beppu's Asami water plant, with a podium, columns, ornate capitals and arched window frames.

Beppu Tower in Oita, designed by Naito Tachu and completed in 1957 for a hot spring expo, rises 90 metres on a shaft that tapers from octagon to triangle.

West of the Hoashi branch bathhouse, a mid-Meiji well house on a cut-stone platform shelters a rectangular stone well curb under a gabled pantile roof.

In the Hoashi branch compound's southwest corner, a mid-Meiji 2-story wing joins a gabled back-gate block at a right angle, its double doors opening to the rear.

Built in 1889 on the Hoashi branch estate's western edge, this 2-story grain store of 7 by 3 bays has two doors under a full-length lean-to and a raised floor.

In the garden north of the Hoashi branch main house, a mid-Meiji plastered pawn storehouse with a tiled base stands on cut stone behind its own fence and gate.

Built in 1906 on Hetsugi Honmachi's main street, this 2-story shop house pairs an earthen passage with fine guest rooms, the only one of 11 listed as hard to copy.

A mid-Meiji wing behind the Hoashi branch main house: one 8-mat room, a wide veranda on the inner garden, and a tile-capped fence and gate registered with it.

A mid-Meiji plastered tool storehouse on the Hoashi branch estate's northwest edge, with a namako-kabe base, two iron-shuttered windows and rows of rain tiles.

A mid-Meiji street wall at the Hoashi branch residence: cut stone, clapboard and plaster with two lattice windows, ending in a small garden gate 1.8 metres wide.

Built in 1889 beside the Hoashi grain store, this single-story miso storehouse is the only timber-framed one of four, boarded on its west and north walls.

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