Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The 1961 main hall of Nishinomiya Shrine, Hyogo, registered in 2025, rebuilding the war-destroyed hall of 1663 as Japan's only triple kasuga-style shrine building.

Beside the entrance of Nishimuraya Honkan stands the Ohiroma-to, rebuilt after the 1925 quake. Its eighty-mat hall spans a Western truss under a coffered ceiling.

The Hirata Wing at Nishimuraya Honkan was designed in 1960 by Hirata Masaya, a sukiya master. Its rooms share a single garden through sightlines that never cross.

At the south front of Nishimuraya Honkan stand a large yakuimon gate and an early-Showa wall. Local basalt, the stone that named nearby Genbudo, lines the wall's base.

Built around 1891 in Tamba City, Hyogo, this gable-entered machiya still trades as the Kotsuzumi brewery shop. Registered in 2007 for its projecting zashiki wing.

Completed in 1941 in Tamba City, Hyogo, this guest wing pairs a storehouse-like volume with a glazed terrace and mixes tatami and western rooms. Registered 2007.

Running 45 metres along the street in Tamba City, Hyogo, this 3.3-metre timber wall of cedar boarding and lime plaster fronts the Kotsuzumi brewery. Registered 2007.

A 1915 tatami wing in Suma, Kobe, with an alcove, staggered shelves and a rippled cedar post. Registered with its 1907 western wing and storehouse in March 2025.

Late Edo plastered wall on a rubble base curving round a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, with a yakuimon rear gate on the back road. Registered 2019.

Late Edo hip-and-gable farmhouse of a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: bracketed eaves, slatted windows above lean-tos, six-room plan. Registered 2019.

Early Meiji two-storey clay storehouse at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, with a raised okiyane roof and plaster up to the eaves. Registered 2019.

1863 L-shaped gatehouse at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: 40 metres long, with plastered walls and gateways east and south. Registered 2019.

Late Edo earthen wall on the west side of a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo: plastered outside, rough clay facing the garden. Registered 2019.

Late Edo plastered garden wall and small cedar-bark gate at a former headman's estate in Kawanishi, Hyogo, turning twice to meet the main house. Registered 2019.

A mid-Meiji composite building in Tatsuno joining a raw material store, salt-dissolving room and brewing rooms, its plaster and board east wall lining a waterway.

Two gabled Meiji storehouses in Tatsuno used as a koji room and anteroom, the koji room lined with insulated double brick and topped by a ventilating ridge.

An L-shaped mid-Meiji storehouse in Tatsuno: a street-front sundries store with a hip-and-gable end, black boarding and lattice windows, and a brewing wing behind.

A mid-Meiji brewing storehouse in Tatsuno with a pent roof, plaster walls, sasarako board cladding and latticed windows, dressed like the townhouse office beside it.

A Taisho brewing storehouse in Tatsuno of two joined earthen buildings, packed with 2-meter soy sauce vats under a roof framed with rafter beams and wagoya trusses.

A late Edo townhouse office in Tatsuno with a Meiji pressing house behind it, still holding a press, raw soy sauce tank and brick chimney; registered in 2013.