Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Shima Shrine Shinmon Gate and Flanking Walls in Wakayama City are a 1944 four-legged gate with 16 meters of latticed walls at the approach, registered in 2024.

The Shima Shrine Temizusha in Wakayama City is a 1944 water pavilion of 5.8 square meters with inward-leaning posts and daibutsuyo-style beam ends; registered 2024.

The Shima Shrine Worship Hall in Wakayama City is a 1944 irimoya hall with a cusped-gable porch, a coffered ceiling, and an attached prayer hall, registered in 2024.

Built in 1926 by Amerika-ya, Japan's first house-building firm, this Wakayama home sets bay windows and arch-headed openings against Japanese ground-floor rooms.

A 55-metre reinforced concrete boundary of 1926, faced with split andesite below and cast stone tile above, registered for its part in Wakayama's streetscape.

Built in 1933 for Koyasan's eleven hundredth Kobo Daishi memorial, this bead merchant's shop carries a temple-style karahafu gable and still trades daily as a shop.

The kuri of Jōgan-ji, west of the main hall in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo priest's residence with a karahafu porch and a raised upper room. Registered in 2024.

The temple gate of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo yakuimon with carved beams and brackets, marking the precinct edge on the street. Registered in 2024.

The bell tower of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo tower built wholly of zelkova on a cut-stone base, with carved gable ornaments. Registered 2024.

The ablution pavilion of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Just 5.2 square metres, it has a formal hipped-and-gabled tiled roof and coffered ceiling. Registered 2024.

The treasure house of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Dating from 1913, it has a pyramidal tiled roof topped by a jewel finial and plastered walls. Registered 2024.

The main hall of Jōgan-ji, a True Pure Land temple in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Built in 1784, the tiled timber hall anchors the village skyline; registered in 2024.

Jokiin Kyakuden on Koyasan is an early Meiji guest hall of 361 square metres, keeping an Edo-period plan with a raised dais room. Registered 13 March 2025.

Jokiin Sanmon on Koyasan is a four-legged gate of about 1955 in cypress, with deliberately archaic carving. Free to view from the street. Registered 2025.

Jokiin Haiden on Koyasan, a hall of about 1910 moved from another temple to face a war memorial tower, carries curved gables front and rear. Registered 2025.

Jokiin Hondo on Koyasan is a late Edo main hall built as a plastered fireproof storehouse, with an attached goma ritual wing to the north. Registered 2025.

A 1920 detached guest room moved from Hashimoto to a Wakayama City temple in 2013, registered in 2017 for the quality of its two-tiered alcove and shoin joinery.

Shonenji Temple Gate stands on the west side of a temple precinct in Kada, Wakayama City. This small late-Edo four-legged gate is framed entirely in zelkova.

Shonenji Main Hall in Kada, Wakayama City, is a seven-bay Pure Land hall built in 1795 in the castle town of Wakayama and moved here in 1907. Registered in 2017.

Registered in 2006, this late Edo priests' residence in Hashimoto keeps an archaic oshiita alcove, a hint that Koyasan monks used it as a lowland winter retreat.