Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Homei Sake Brewery Storehouse No. 1, a late Edo storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, turns a blind plastered wall to the street and closes the frontage at its corner.

Homei Sake Brewery Storehouse No. 2, a late Edo storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, rises two full storeys under a floating roof above a tiled namako wainscot.

Homei Sake Brewery Annex, a mid-Meiji wing in Tamba-Sasayama, has three tatami rooms, a Western room, a formal entrance and an alcove, registered for its design.

Homei Sake Brewery Pressing House and Koji Room joins a column-free Edo pressing room, now a concert hall too, to a koji room with walls packed with rice husks.

The Honjuji Temple Main Hall above Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, built in 1931, has coffered ceilings throughout and a dragon on its porch by carvers of the Shikama school.

The Chushudo Hall of Hontokuji in Himeji, rebuilt in 1898 by the ninth Ito Heizaemon, joins two roofs in one of the few surviving chushudo halls of its kind.

A 27-square-metre timber barn in Maiko Park, Kobe, with a two-storey veranda across its south face. Registered in 2001, it stands inside the estate's closed zone.

A 1926 timber house in Sanda, Hyogo, with arched south windows and a corbelled corner. Attributed to Nishimura Isaku, it was registered nationally in December 2000.

A late Edo merchant house on Yamasaki's sake brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo, registered nationally in 2024. Mushiko windows, carved eaves brackets, a cafe inside.

A late Edo tool storehouse joined to the Maeno main house on Yamasaki's brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo. Registered in 2024 for the frontage it completes.

The 1920 fermentation warehouse of the Honke Monzenya brewery in Shiso, Hyogo, registered in 2024. A timber ramp and hoisting hatch still map the brewing workflow.

Kobe's Kitano is a slope, and this 53-metre boundary of 1951 is registered in its own right: diagonal stonework, white concrete, round tile coping, a curved corner.

A 1951 wooden house in Kobe's Kitano: white stucco, pink louvered shutters, a Spanish-tiled hipped roof over a partial basement. Registered in 2012; exterior only.

Completed in 1925 as a kimono retailer's Kobe branch, the Matsuo Building on Motomachi carries triple arched windows and Expressionist curves from the Taisho era.

The Matsuso Storehouse on the Horikawa canal in Takasago, Hyogo, built in 1823, is a tiled clay-walled store for sea and farm produce from the river-trade era.

In the silver-mining town of Ikuno, the Matsumoto Family Residence Main House joins an early Meiji gabled half to a hipped Taisho extension under one roofline.

A 1928 reinforced concrete gate with four posts on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, set back from the road to frame the approach to the Onzan Memorial Hall villa.

A 1928 concrete storehouse on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, north of the villa, designed by Kigo Shichiro to match the main house of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

A 151-meter reinforced concrete wall around the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, its washed-aggregate finish suiting the Western-style villa of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

Originally the servants' quarters of the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, this 1928 wooden outbuilding by architect Kigo Shichiro is part of the Onzan Memorial Hall.

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