Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 20 m gatehouse of 1864 fronting a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, with a barred storehouse window, a projecting lattice and a guest entrance. Registered 2009.

A late Edo roofed wall in a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, running 11 m north from the gate with a privy under one roof, plastered outside and open inside.

An 1892 guest wing of a merchant house in Aboshi, Himeji: two tatami rooms with an alcove, a writing bay and a transom carved with rabbits on waves. Registered 2009.

An 1851 two-storey parlor on the river side of a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, extended in 1874, moved in 1958 and wrapped in varied eaves. Registered 2009.

A late Edo bath and privy behind the gate of a merchant compound in Aboshi, Himeji, with round and octagonal tea-room windows, a tiled fence and a torii-shaped gate.

A 1919 sukiya-style guest pavilion at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum: an alcove room and anteroom with verandas on two sides, in fine timber.

A 1919 board-walled barn on the north side of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with an earthen floor, a bracketed eave and a tall tiled wall.

The 1919 entrance wing of the Hirayasu residence at the Kawanishi City Local Museum, with an earthen passage and reception rooms set apart from the main house.

A 1919 one-bay yakuimon gate at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a wicket door on one side and a wall turning into the entrance wing.

The 1919 home of the copper-refining Hirayasu family at the Kawanishi City Local Museum: a six-room farmhouse plan with sukiya roofs and modern reception rooms.

The 1919 nagayamon gate of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, the family's everyday entrance, with board skirting and a tall tiled wall.

A square 1919 storehouse at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a detached tiled roof and stepped plaster cornices, north of the annex.

A tiny 1919 barn of 9.4 m² fitted between two storehouses at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with sliding doors across its whole front.

A 1919 board-floored barn with a well house, set against the Tatsumi Storehouse on the east side of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum.

A 1919 tile-roofed board fence running 48.2 m along the approach to the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, framing the front of the estate.

A 1919 detached bathhouse at the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a bath, a changing room, a steam vent on the roof and a covered walkway.

Kitano Monogatarikan in Kobe, the former Shea House of 1907, is a small clapboarded Western house with an oriel window, moved here after the Hanshin earthquake.

A 26-metre riveted steel water tower of 1923 in Takasago, Hyogo, built from Yawata steel by Kawasaki Shipyard for the town's first waterworks. Registered in 2003.

A 1953 municipal apartment block in Ashiya, Hyogo, built of Nikkaseki tuff laid in courses alternating with concrete block. Its eight units now hold studios.

A 1929 telephone exchange in Ashiya, Hyogo, by ministry architect Uenami Akira. Two-tone scratch tile, an arcaded north wall, lion reliefs; now a restaurant.

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