Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A wartime reinforced concrete air-raid shelter on the Nitta estate in Nishinomiya, part of the Onzan Memorial Hall, with double blast doors and a domed ceiling.

A 1928 Spanish-style villa in Nishinomiya, home of industrialist Nitta Chojiro, founder of Matsuyama University's forerunner, designed by Kigo Shichiro.

Mikage Public Hall of 1933 in Kobe, built with a gift from Kano Jihei to designs by Shimizu Eiji, gathers varied forms on a modernist base at the heart of Mikage.

The west building of Mikiya in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, built in 1927, is a two-storey inn wing joined to the east building, from the rebuilding after the 1925 quake.

The east building of Mikiya in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, built in 1927, is a three-storey timber inn with a banquet hall from the rebuilding after the 1925 quake.

Just 3.5 square metres, the Mizuguchi Family Residence Well House covers a stone well in Kurokawa, Kawanishi, registered in 2005 with a charcoal farmstead.

The Minatogawa Tunnel in Kobe, built in 1901 through Egeyama hill, is Japan's first river tunnel, 400 metres of horseshoe brick lining, open twice a month.

The 1930 Kōshien Hotel by Frank Lloyd Wright's protégé Endō Arata is now a Mukogawa Women's University campus and registered cultural property in Hyōgo.

Artist Watanuki Kōsuke's 1969 Kobe tea room. A ceramic cookpot crowns its pyramid roof; inside, an umbrella ceiling, bamboo-screen shoji, and a sunken hearth depart from every rule of orthodox tea architecture. Registered Cultural Property since 2023.

Momoshima Bridge in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a concrete footbridge of 1926 at a bend of the Otani River, has a bowed profile and end posts with lanterns and finials.

The oldest storehouse of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a small late-Edo two-storey store on granite footings, joined to the main house by a porch.

A late-Edo well at the heart of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo: a jointed granite curb 0.8 m square over an 8 m shaft, with a granite washing slab beside it.

A tall one-storey store of about 1905 at the corner of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with white plaster, dark boards and a deep porch; registered 2009.

A late-Edo headman's house in Amagasaki, Hyogo, moved and rebuilt on site, with a swelling irimoya roof and plaster waves on its corner posts; registered 2009.

Tile-capped walls 58 m long on the north and south of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Edo and Meiji in date, black plaster over boards with a white line.

A small early-Showa bracket-arm gate between the main house and annex in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with a slatted transom and side walls matching the outer wall.

A small early-Meiji storehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo, 3.9 m square, whose wall boarding is raised to match the older clothing storehouse beside it; registered 2009.

A late-Edo gatehouse 18 m long fronting a former headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with a room and storeroom either side of its central passage; registered 2009.

An early-Showa garden room in Amagasaki, Hyogo: one six-mat room with tokonoma and desk alcove, corridors on three sides, and copper-edged eaves; registered 2009.

A late-Taisho barn 22 m long on the east side of a headman's estate in Amagasaki, Hyogo, with a sleeping room at one end and white-over-dark walls; registered 2009.

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