Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Shotokukan Main House in Higashiosaka is timber merchant Mori Heizo's 1939 home, Japanese outside, with rooms mixing Japanese and Western design in prized wood.

A church of 1925 facing Sakaisuji in central Osaka, Gothic in its pointed arches but deliberately flat across the front so it sits in the street. Listed in 2000.

A Showa-period row house in Osaka, Japan. Concrete below and timber above over there even now, following the slope of the ground itself even so today.

Kasuga Shrine Moshiden in Bungotakada, Oita, is a 1905 offering hall one bay square, fitted with glass doors and set between the worship hall and main hall.

A Showa-period public bath in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Its own three parts over there each still carry a roof of their very own form even today.

A Meiji-period storehouse at a sake brewer's in Taketa, Oita Prefecture, Japan. Small tiled eaves stand over its street doorway and window; rice was kept below.

A Showa-period summer villa at Karuizawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its west face is glazed on both floors with a sunroom behind, an early work of timber modernism.

An Edo-period thatched main house in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date over there is given only as a span of some 78 whole years even now.

A Showa-period road bridge at Oshika, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its road runs beneath three concrete arches tied to the girders, a fine example of a common type.

Meiji-period stone waterway works in Ogawa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Its own date field over there carries both the building and the two repairs now.

A Showa-period museum building in Azumino, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It takes the outward shape of a Christian church over there even so even now today.

A Showa-period bank building in Hino, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Its own front over there is quite set out in the members of the West even so even now.

Wakasa Railway Hayabusa Station, a 1929 timber building with a 97-metre platform, was briefly the terminus in 1930 and keeps its original waiting room and walls.

The priest's house at Tsuwano Catholic Church in Shimane is a timber building of 1917 in 2 storeys, slate-roofed and clad differently on each floor. Registered 2010.

The front gate of Ohashi Saryo, a tea house at Toranomon, Tokyo, Japan. Framed in logs in the tea-house manner under a tiled roof, it is valued for its plain calm.

A Showa-period auditorium and student hall at ICU, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan. Designed by the Vories office, it sets broad glass and early aluminium sashes round a court.

A Showa-period timber main house in Shirokanedai, Tokyo, Japan. Its own tatami rooms over there all run westward there in three quite offset sets now.

The main hall of Manpukuji in Naka, Tokushima, a late Edo hall with a thatched hipped roof ringed by tiled eaves, has the regional farmhouse look called shihobuta.

A Meiji merchant house facing the old highway at Kaemoncho in Tochigi, its gable end met by a hipped roof above a projecting eave. Listed as heritage in 2008.

A Meiji storehouse west of its neighbour on the Abuden Miso plot in Tochigi, its plastered north wall running on into the next building. Listed in 2004.

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