Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A clay-walled storehouse of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, standing on a cut-stone plinth, its clay door framed in granite and its roof carried on a king post truss.

A tiled timber wall of 1918 running 28 meters along a street in Hashihama, Imabari, boarded below and clay-rendered above. Visible from the road at any time.

A guest wing of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, with paintings by Ochi Shokan on its sliding doors and glazed screens of Taisho blown glass facing the garden.

Built in 1916 in Hashihama, Imabari, this wing of 344 square meters is crossed by an earthen passage and holds a kitchen and a deep well lined with cut stone.

A merchant shop of 1918 on the main street of Hashihama in Imabari, with a low half storey, a projecting lattice front and stone steps raised against storm surge.

A retirement house of 1918 in Hashihama, Imabari, L-shaped in plan, its four-and-a-half-mat tea room lit by unusually large glazed sliding screens on two sides.

The chimney of the former Yamane smelter in Niihama, built in 1888 for the Besshi copper mine, is a 19-metre square brick stack on top of Mount Ikoyama.

The street front of a physician's estate in Dogo, Matsuyama: a bracket gate 3.5 metres wide with doors free of metal fittings, and 26 metres of plastered wall.

A late-Meiji physician's house on the shrine approach in Dogo, Matsuyama. A carved phoenix hangs from its convex entrance gable, and a tea room adjoins the door.

A copper-roofed gate and its plastered walls dividing the garden of a physician's estate in Dogo, Matsuyama into an entrance side and a reception side.

A two-storey outbuilding on the shrine approach in Dogo, Matsuyama, built about 1914 to hold medicines and later refaced as a shop. Its street windows are false.

A roofed bench of just 2.2 square metres in a physician's garden in Dogo, Matsuyama, framed in knotty logs and linked to the tea room by stepping stones.

A mid-Meiji stone well at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: four granite blocks in a curb 1.3 meters across, under a small tiled roof. Private land.

An 1894 farmhouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: a tiled hipped roof, a low tsushi half storey, and formal zashiki rooms. Private home, closed.

A mid-Meiji storehouse at Iyoki in Uchiko, Ehime, registered in 2011: 9.9 by 5.0 meters, plastered walls, bare timber eaves. Privately owned and closed.

Kokon-so, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture, is a refined wooden residence originally built around the end of the Meiji era as a secondary villa of an old family in former Kawanoe Village, then carefully relocated to its current site in Kamibun-cho during the late 1950s to mid-1960s. Its three formal rooms aligned in a row and its distinctive budo-dana (grape trellis) ceiling above the gallery corridor exemplify the high craftsmanship of late Meiji Japanese residential architecture.

The parsonage of Saijo Eiko Church in Saijo, Ehime, built in 1951 beside the chapel, is a two-storey timber house finished throughout in a Japanese style.

The chapel of Saijo Eiko Church in Saijo, Ehime, built in 1951 on the site of the domain jin'ya, is a gabled chapel with a bell tower and tall windows.

Standing along the moat of the former Saijo Jinya in Ehime Prefecture, the Saijo Eiko Kindergarten Building is a single-storey wooden structure designed in 1953 by the celebrated architect Shizutaro Urabe. Together with the adjacent church chapel and pastor's residence, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in February 2021. Discover this rare ensemble of postwar wooden modernism on a quiet walk along the moat.

Visit the Sasaki Sake Brewery Main Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tobe Town, Ehime. Built around 1908, this Meiji-era sake house preserves the streetscape of a once-thriving mountain highway village in Shikoku.