Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Hokuryokan, the Akagi Family Residence Annex in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji shoin-style guest wing with two 8-mat rooms, a tatami veranda and deep eaves.

The Akagi Family Residence Guardhouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a 6.0 m² mid-Meiji hut by the front gate, the estate's only hipped-roof building, windowed to the road.

The Akagi Family Residence East Workshop in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji two-storey farm building of 174 m² with an earth-floored work area, a byre and a loft.

The Akagi Family Residence East Unhulled Rice Storehouse in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji 16 m² earthen store for tax rice, with a floating roof and plaster walls.

The Akagi Family Residence Wall One in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji tiled timber wall, 68 m long, with charred cedar below and openwork or plaster above.

The Akagi Family Residence Wall Two in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber wall, 40 m long, on the south of the estate, finished in boards and a bare clay coat.

The Akashi City Astronomical Science Museum in Hyogo, a concrete complex of 1960, has a planetarium and a 53-metre clock tower keeping Japan Standard Time.

The main house of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki, built in 1931, sets red-ochre posts and shutters against black plaster walls; a former local landmark.

The storehouse of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki, built around 1770 and moved on rollers around 1965, is a two-storey store sealed in white plaster.

The barn of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki is a plain late Edo timber building with an open bay on the north and latticed windows on the south side.

The Ashiya Buddhist Hall in Hyogo, a concrete lecture hall of 1927 paid for by Ito Chobe of Marubeni, mixes Eastern and Indian details and still hosts talks.

The Atago Bridge at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a bowed concrete footbridge of 1926 with lanterns on its posts, marks the start of the walk to Atago Shrine.

The Kaimei Building of Amagasaki City Hall, a concrete school of 1937 laid out in an L, has a quarter-round entrance hall below a half-cylinder stair tower.

The Osho Community Hall in Amagasaki, the former Osho village office of 1937 by Murano Togo, has brown tile walls and ornament of birds of prey and plants.

The 1925 storehouse and barn of the Arai estate in Suma, Kobe: a plastered store on a stone base and an earthen-floored barn under a stepped gabled roof.

The 1925 main house of the Arai estate above the Suma shore in Kobe. A refined two-storey wooden home with a central corridor and a formal sea-facing interior.

The rear hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, is an octagonal hall under three tiers of varied roofs.

The middle hall of the Shotokuden at Ikarugadera in Taishi, Hyogo, built in 1916 to a design by Ito Heizaemon, links the front and rear halls of the temple.

A 1933 bracket-arm gate on a street in Ashiya Midorigaoka: gabled pantiles, copper eaves and adze-marked board doors. Registered 2024. A private home.

A tiny early Meiji well house by the front gate of the Ishido estate in Sayo, Hyogo: a copper roof, a stone well curb and a curved karahafu gable; registered 2012.

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