Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Yoneda Family Residence Main House in Sumoto is a 1941 single-storey sukiya-style home with a gabled porch; its ridge tag names its designer and carpenter.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shinden Pavilion is a 1941 south-facing pavilion in Sumoto, pairing tile with cypress-bark eaves and walls of board, screen and glass.
The Yoneda Family Residence Storehouse in Sumoto is a 1941 2-storey storehouse on a cut-granite base, with white plaster walls, a mizukiri ledge and full tile roof.
The Yoneda Family Residence Shrine in Sumoto is a 1941 household shrine in one-bay nagare-zukuri style, with a copper roof, bracket sets and carved beams on granite.
The Yoneda Family Residence Bathhouse in Sumoto is a 1941 sukiya building lining up a bath, dressing room and tea room, with log rafters and an odd alcove post.
The Yoneda Family Residence Western-Style House in Sumoto is a 1941 office wing with scratch-tile walls and a parapet over a Japanese timber frame, facing the house.
The old building of Ryotei Bunichiro in Miki, Hyogo, a timber restaurant inn of 1924 in the lanes of the old castle town, has a shoin-style hall and varied rooms.
The new building of Ryotei Bunichiro in Miki, Hyogo, an early Showa guest wing behind the old inn, has five sukiya-style rooms with umbrella and wicker ceilings.
The main hall of Renjoji at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a building of 1933 moved here from the Omoto religion in 1936, has an off-centre porch and a bell-shaped window.
The garage of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, is an unusual two-storey garage with a chauffeur's room above, its colours matched to the main house.
The main building of Roy Smith Hall, the former Otani house in Nada, Kobe, built in 1935, has a Spanish-tiled hipped roof, half-timbering and stained glass.
The gate pillars and stone walls of Roy Smith Hall in Nada, Kobe, built around 1935, are granite-faced pillars and walls 111 metres long, typical of large estates.
Rokko Sanso, the former Kodera family villa on Mount Rokko in Kobe, built in 1934, has clapboard walls and a living room with a stone fireplace by its terrace.
Built in 1932 as a soy sauce company head office in Tatsuno, this timber building wears tile and stone to read as brick. Since 1979 it has shown 2,400 brewing tools.
The Odagaki Shoten Former Sake Brewery is a late Edo earthen storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, registered with its well and spanned inside by two posts and raked beams.
The Odagaki Shoten Workshop is an early Meiji work hall in Tamba-Sasayama with a tall frame and roof dormer, opening straight off the floor of the main shop.
The Odagaki Shoten Store is a late Edo town house on the old Kyo Kaido in Tamba-Sasayama, with plastered eaves and drip tiles, still in use as the firm's main shop.
The former Tsujikawa Post Office in Fukusaki, Hyogo, built in 1923, is a Western-style timber post office with clapboard walls and a ceiling with the 〒 mark.
A village of oil lamps financed this brick hydroelectric plant in 1922. It stopped in 1963, then dinosaur fossils found in the river below revived it as a museum.
A 1950 doctor's surgery built beside a headman's house in Fukusaki, Hyogo. Waiting room west, operating room north-east, a glazed front east. Shops occupy it now.
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