Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1929 at Matsue's Imbe plant, this 683-square-metre concrete slow sand filter bed was registered in 2008 and still filters the city's drinking water today.

Built in 1929, this valve chamber and receiving well is where raw water first enters Matsue's Imbe plant, with a flow-measuring notch and granite coping on its rim.

Dating from 1919, the year the Imbe plant was finished, this 695 m² bed is 2.7 metres deep, with walls battered at 1 bu 7 rin and a floor falling at 1 in 150.

Dating from 1918, the year Matsue first received piped water, this 692 m² concrete filter bed is the westernmost of the Imbe plant's four founding beds.

Built in 1929 as Matsue's Imbe plant grew, this round well gathers filtered water for the reservoirs. Its housing has columns carrying a shallow arched canopy.

At Matsue's Imbe plant, a straight 60-metre conduit and a round 1918 discharge well share raw water among the filter beds. Parts date from 1918 and 1929.

Completed in 1929 in Matsue's first waterworks expansion, this 683 m² slow sand filter bed has a well housing with simplified pillars and a row of pilasters on top.

Built in 1918 for Matsue's first water supply, this 695 m² bed filters water through sand, gravel and brick, draining it along a 1-in-100 groove to its well.

At the east end of the Imbe plant's row of filter beds, this 1919 bed has a well housing with a half-cylindrical base and a cornice of linked flattened hexagons.

Okuno Shogo Family Residence Rear Nagaya, Mori, Yasugi: a 1911 single-story back building with an open passage, a room, a miso store and a work floor in one row.

Okuno Shogo Family Residence Main House, Mori, Yasugi: a 1911 two-story town house on the old road with a through-passage, six rooms, lattice bays and many openings.

Okuno Shogo Family Residence Storehouse, Mori, Yasugi: a 1911 two-story storehouse on stone footings with a plaster band, a round ridge-end and a floating roof.

Okuno Shogo Family Residence Wall, Mori, Yasugi: a 1929 concrete garden wall 45 meters long, modeled on a timber fence of posts and rails, with German-style render.

Okuno Motoke Residence Rice Storehouse, Mori, Yasugi: a small 1923 storehouse on vented stone footings, with chamfered plaster corners and a shared eave.

Okuno Motoke Residence Workshop, Mori, Yasugi: a 1923 single-story building, half sitting room and half earth-floored work area, roofed with the rice storehouse.

Okuno Motoke Residence Main House, Mori, Yasugi: an 1872 town house on the old road, single-story with a partial upper floor yet tall enough to pass for two stories.

Okuno Motoke Residence Barn, Mori, Yasugi: a late-Taisho two-story outbuilding holding an earth-floored soy sauce and miso store and a board-floored storeroom.

Okuno Motoke Residence Treasure House, Mori, Yasugi: an 1858 storehouse, the oldest on the estate, with two doorways, four rooms and a round plaster ridge-end.

A late-Edo earthen storehouse south of Kasen Brewery's shop in Tsuwano, renovated around 1996, matching the Tool Storehouse in design but longer. Registered in 2010.

A mid-Meiji townhouse 11 meters wide on Tsuwano's Honmachi-dori, registered in 2010 for a merchant facade of slatted windows and firewalls. The shop opens daily.