Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The middle of three early Meiji storehouses on a homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: plaster eaves modelled as rafters and a door canopy on curved timber brackets.

A tiny mid-Meiji barn at the end of a row of storehouses in Amagasaki, Hyogo: pan tiles, exposed posts, plaster and boards, one earth-floored room, sharing a wall.

The smallest of three early Meiji storehouses in a row on a homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a twin of the middle store, half a bay shorter, with a barn at its side.

The 1770 main gate of Jorakuji in Kakogawa is a tiled four-legged gate with carved gable struts and old-style pivot doors that keep their original metal fittings.

Built in 1754 beside the gate, the Jorakuji bell tower in Kakogawa has posts leaning inward on all sides, carved struts and a bell hung from a beam below the ridge.

The 1692 Jorakuji main hall in Kakogawa is a 19 by 17 metre Pure Land hall with a convex sanctuary, a painted ceiling and a cusped-gable entrance wing added in 1722.

The Jorakuji Yakushido of 1862 is a small copper-roofed pyramid hall, youngest of the temple's four registered buildings, with carved struts and a lattice front.

The Shinkameya inn at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a three-storey timber building of 1959 by Hirata Masaya, has small gables and refined rooms with red shelves.

The Shinko Boeki Kaikan in Kobe's Shinko district is a four-storey concrete office building of 1930, faced in scratch tile with geometric and Art Deco ornament.

The anzaisho of Hontokuji, Himeji Senba Betsuin, is a late Edo temple residence where Emperor Meiji stayed, centred on a throne room with an unusual alcove.

The Clothing Storehouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 two-story plastered store 2 ken square, the smallest of four, built to match the Middle Storehouse.

The Well Hut at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 shelter of 2.1 m² on the path to the gate, holding a wellhead and pump room under a corrugated roof.

The Northwest Storehouse at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 two-story white plastered store on a vented stone base, the largest of four on the estate (40 m²).

The Front Gate of Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 gatehouse eight bays long, red bengara and yellow plaster, with a gate room and tool store. Free entry.

The Service Gate at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 everyday gate 4.2 m wide between the main house and tool shed, its ridge tucked under the house eaves.

The 1934 Water Tower at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, pumped well water to a raised tank that fed flush toilets. It was registered as hard to reproduce, unique here.

The Brushwood Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a 1934 woodshed on the forecourt, finished in red bengara and yellow plaster to match the Front Gate.

The thatched 1934 main house of Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, hides a truss frame under its roof and adds a reception wing and flush guest toilet. Free to visit.

Tomita Kumasaku's 1934 study at Seishikan, Inagawa, Hyogo, is a plastered storehouse with tatami over an iron floor heated from a fire chamber below, ondol-style.

The Charcoal Room at Seishikan in Inagawa, Hyogo, is a small 1934 shed with mokko crest-shaped high windows and a tiled canopy running on from the Tool Room.

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