Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

Completed in 1938 on the inner bailey of Amagasaki Castle, this three-story concrete school rings a courtyard. Registered in 2024, it is now the city history museum.

Built in 1927 and registered in 2024, this Amagasaki school gate spans four meters of concrete clad in roughly worked stone, with thin pyramidal caps on its posts.

Registered in August 2025, this 35-square-metre early Showa tea house on the Otemae University campus in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, is said to copy Kyoto's Hanshoan.

A 1918 timber hall in Kakogawa, Hyogo, pairing a sixteen-mat room with an antechamber and opening onto a garden that holds its own separate heritage listing.

A late-Taisho timber gate facing the lane at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, 4.9 metres wide, keeping Jurakukabe plaster on its rear face and visible from the road.

A Taisho service wing at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, where polished log posts, lobed windows and a radial bathroom ceiling bring sukiya refinement to a bathhouse.

A 1927 concrete clubhouse built by Hyogo merchants in Kobe, registered in 2018, and since June 2026 the free exhibition annex of the Kobe City Historical Archives.

The former Kaizaki Clinic in Ikuno, Asago, Hyogo, built around 1887, is a small Western-style clinic on the old highway with shutters and a heavy timber cornice.

Built in 1924 and registered in 2016, this clapboard and roughcast house in Kobe's Mikage district sets Western rooms downstairs and Japanese rooms above.

A 25-square-metre bath wing built in 1918 for guests alone, linked by roofed passage to house and annexe. Sukiya woodwork meets tile, marble and a koyamaki tub.

Built in 1918 for a Nishiwaki banker, this registered house hides a central-corridor plan, hanegi beams and iron rods behind an old townhouse face. Free entry.

This 58-square-metre annexe went up before the main house. Its eight-mat room keeps alcove, shelving and writing bay, with a veranda on three sides. Free entry.

Attached to the main house at Ikuno in Asago City, this 22-square-metre storehouse of 1843 keeps a nando below and a tatami room with an alcove above. Free entry.

Where the Yoshikawa plot meets the road in Ikuno, Asago City, this 19-square-metre earthen storehouse of 1872 holds one tall room under a separate roof. Free entry.

A 2-storey Meiji gatehouse at a Takeda sake brewery, rising between two storehouses, with a gateway below and rooms above where the brewers lodged. Registered 2015.

Twin Meiji rice stores at a Takeda sake brewery, one for brown and one for polished rice, with namako tiles to the street and washed stone inside. Registered 2015.

A Meiji earthen storehouse at a Takeda brewery where pressed sake was aged, 21 m long, framed with a king post truss unlike the press house next door. Listed 2015.

A late Meiji sake merchant's house on Takeda's main street, with timber lattices, a plastered upper floor, a clerestory and firewalls. Registered 2015; now a hotel.