Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small 1933 timber house on the steep slope below Suwayama Park in Kobe, registered in 2006 for its part in the hillside landscape. Private and closed to visitors.

A weatherboarded Western house of 1918 at the eastern edge of Kobe's Kitano preservation district, registered in 1999. Still lived in and closed to visitors.

Designed by Takeda Goichi in 1930 for a teacher of flower arrangement, this Ashiya house puts a tea room and a fireplace under one Spanish tile roof. Closed.

No crawl entrance, only a high kijinguchi: this small Nishinomiya tea house follows the Fumai school of Matsue, a lineage rarely built in the Kansai region.

Tea-house scholar Okada Takao designed this 331-square-metre Nishinomiya house, which pivots from Spanish tile to tatami. Registered property, open by booking.

Japanese storehouses are normally earthen-walled; this one in Nishinomiya is reinforced concrete, with a tatami antechamber and a darkroom set at the front.

The 1919 Tatsumi storehouse at the southeast corner of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum, with a round gable window, round tiles and stone base.

The 1919 Great Barn on the east edge of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum: two joined buildings with an earthen floor and a mezzanine at one end.

The 1919 North Storehouse of the Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi City Local Museum: 60 m², two joined buildings, round gable vents and a canopy tied to the house.

The 1919 Inui storehouse in the northwest corner of the Hirayasu residence at Kawanishi City Local Museum, joined to the North Storehouse by a roofed passage.

The Odagaki Family Residence Detached Room is a c.1914 reception wing in Tamba-Sasayama whose Western-style guest room hides behind bamboo and rust-toned plaster.

The Odagaki Family Residence Toilet and Bath Building is a Taisho washroom wing in Tamba-Sasayama with boat-bottom and woven ceilings, joined to the detached room.

The Odagaki Family Residence Tea Room is a late Meiji tea room in Tamba-Sasayama with a crawl-in door and four-and-a-half-mat room, now the breakfast room of Mameya.

The Odagaki Family Residence Storehouse is a mid-Meiji earthen store in Tamba-Sasayama, the only Odagaki building roofed in hongawara tiles, with a planed interior.

The Odagaki Family Residence Tatami Room is a late Meiji six-mat sukiya-style room in Tamba-Sasayama, plastered to the eaves and reached from the shop by a corridor.

The Odagaki Family Residence Miso Storehouse is a tiny late Edo earthen store in Tamba-Sasayama with its own well house, built for the family kitchen, not the trade.

Ashida Family Residence Storage Shed, a late Edo two-storey farm shed in Tanba, Hyogo, open on its east side on both floors, with lean-to roofs and an outhouse.

Ashida Family Residence Miso Storehouse, a small early Showa store behind a thatched farmhouse in Tanba, Hyogo, with a cement-tile roof and three round vents.

Ashida Family Residence Main House, a late Edo two-storey thatched silk farmhouse in Tanba, Hyogo, with tiled lean-to roofs and nine tatami rooms, now a café.

Ashida Family Residence Toilet, an early Showa outhouse in Tanba, Hyogo, described as a kami-setchin, with a urinal and stall behind a hinged and a sliding door.