Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1968 west gate guardhouse by Murano Tōgo at Konan Girls' school in Kobe: an 11 m² block hut with a pyramid roof, a column in a recessed corner, a bay window.

The No. 1 Flying Cage of the stork centre in Toyooka, Hyogo, a domed aviary of steel pipe and mesh built in 1965, marks the pioneering start of stork breeding.

The clubhouse of Kobe Golf Club on Mount Rokko, Japan's oldest golf course, is a clapboard building of 1932 with a tiled fireplace and beamed ceilings.

The Chamber of Kobe Golf Club on Mount Rokko began in 1924 as the Thursday Club of Osaka businessmen; its low, shallow-roofed form suits the mountain course.

The Kanematsu Memorial Hall of Kobe University, a 1934 research building by the Ministry of Education, hides a chequer-tiled stair hall behind a plain front.

The Auditorium of Kobe University, built in 1935 to match the Main Building, has a front of five great arches with doors decorated with ships' wheels.

The Humanities and Social Sciences Library of Kobe University, built in 1933, has an arched great reading room and a stained-glass skylight over its main staircase.

The martial arts hall of Kobe University, built in 1935 as the dojo of the Kobe University of Commerce, is a formal timber hall with a coffered ceiling.

The Main Building of Kobe University, built in 1932 for the Kobe University of Commerce, has a symmetrical scratch-tiled front with a Lombard band below its eaves.

The Kobe Museum of Literature occupies a brick chapel of 1904 built for Kwansei Gakuin, with a pointed-arch gable and corner tower, in Oji Park, Kobe.

Kobe Port Tower, a 108-metre tower of 1963 on the central pier, was Japan's first steel-pipe frame structure and its drum shape is a symbol of the port.

Kōmyōji Main Hall in Katō City, Hyogo, was rebuilt in 1925 by the architect Takeda Goichi after an 1859 fire. Registered in 1999, it follows Kamakura forms.

The Niomon Gate of Gokurakuji at Yachiyo, Taka, Hyogo, built in 1728, is a two-storey gate with Daibutsu-style details and a vase-shaped strut under its ridge.

The main hall of Gokurakuji at the far end of Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, built in 1921, adds glass doors and cusped windows to a traditional six-room plan.

Goshobo Shinkan at Arima Onsen in Kobe pairs timber with concrete on a steep slope. Built about 1955 and registered in 2021, its interiors run on a strict grid.

Goshobo Dozo, an 1890 earthen-walled storehouse at Arima Onsen in Kobe, once held tea utensils beside a tea house. Registered in 2021, it is now a craft gallery.

Goshobo Honkan at Arima Onsen in Kobe is a late-Meiji timber inn building above the Takigawa, extended in 1931 and registered in 2021. Day bathing opens part of it.

Gosuke Dam on the upper Sumiyoshi River in Kobe stands 30 metres high and 78 metres long. Its hand-laid stone facing earned cultural property status in 2014.

The north wall of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, runs about 30 metres. Its late-Meiji brick core has a scraped-mortar face and a tiled top.

The 1911 main house of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property with a broad tiled irimoya roof.

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