Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Showa garden wall at Himeji's literature museum: 64 m of large natural stones laid irregularly, with some brick and a hedge on top. Registered 2009.

Early Taisho tea house in Himeji: an eight-mat room with wide garden openings and a boat-hull ceiling, facing the main hall across a pond. Registered in 2009.

Early Showa bracket-arm gate at Himeji's literature museum, moved here in 1991, with a deep convex copper roof, lattice doors and carved beams. Registered 2009.

Early Taisho corridor in Himeji joining a reception hall and tea house at a right angle, 9.6 m long and raised on an arch over a garden path. Registered in 2009.

Early Taisho reception wing at Himeji's literature museum: 18- and 12-mat rooms on a raised base, railed veranda over the pond. Registered 2009; open unless rented.

A 1908 headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a thatched roof under copper with tiled lean-tos, an earthen work area, six rooms and a formal entrance.

A late Meiji annex behind a headman's farmhouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo: one four-and-a-half-mat room with an alcove, boarded below and white above, by the storehouse.

An 1848 storehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo, the oldest building on a headman's homestead: two storeys, white plaster up to the eaves band, a roof of round and flat tile.

A late Meiji gatehouse on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: double plank doors with a wicket, black plaster outside, white inside.

A late Meiji gate and fence around the inner garden of a headman's house in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a bracketed gate with a sliding lattice door and a two-toned fence.

A late Meiji brick wall on the street front of a headman's homestead in Amagasaki, Hyogo: 2 metres high, tiled, grey outside and white inside to match the gatehouse.

Osa Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a 1915 depot that keeps its ticket window and parcels counter, with a 77-meter stone platform, registered in 2014.

Harima-Shimosato Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a compact 1918 depot entered from the gable end, with a 53-meter stone platform, registered in 2014.

A 1915 timber privy at Hokkeguchi Station on the Hojo Railway: four rooms 1 meter square under an off-center gable roof, registered with the station in 2014.

Hokkeguchi Station on the Hojo Railway in Kasai, Hyogo: a 1915 timber depot of 85 square meters with a 67-meter stone platform, registered in 2014, and how to visit.

Homei Sake Brewery Kettle Room and Rice-Washing Room, a late Edo workroom in Tamba-Sasayama, displays the great kettle and wooden steamer used for sake rice.

Homei Sake Brewery Brewing Storehouse is a late Edo sake hall in Tamba-Sasayama about 20 meters long, where visitors can feel music vibrating a fermenting tank.

Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 1 is a one-room Meiji office of 6.3 square meters in Tamba-Sasayama, with a near single-pitch roof and a lattice motif on its wall.

Homei Sake Brewery Office No. 2, a late Meiji hip-and-gable office in Tamba-Sasayama, stands by the south entrance that served the working brewery, not the shop.

Homei Sake Brewery Main House, built in 1804 in Tamba-Sasayama, is a brewer's townhouse with a bowed tile roof, now the shop and entrance to a free sake museum.

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