Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small two-storey late Edo storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, Wakayama, built for hina dolls, with lime-plastered walls and a boarded base. Registered in 2024.

A two-storey timber annex of about 1953 on the Sono estate in Gobo, with pantiled roof and board walls; its upstairs window looks to the river. Registered in 2024.

The largest storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo: a late Edo two-storey store for household goods, plastered to the eaves, with a tiled lean-to. Registered 2024.

A two-storey Taisho-era storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, used for dishes, with a gable-end entrance and a mortar base unlike the Edo stores. Registered 2024.

The Taiji fisheries cooperative office near Taiji harbour, Wakayama, a timber building of 1918, has an unusual exterior with its woodwork painted pale pink.

Rebuilt in 1953, the Entrance Building of the former Tajima lacquer refinery in Kainan pairs a washed-mortar base and yellow render with an exposed steel truss.

Built in 1922 to hold finished lacquer, this mortar-rendered brick storehouse in Kainan has corner piers and a top band, and lost its upper floor in a 1953 refit.

This early Showa wooden wing at the former Tajima lacquer works in Kainan holds 2 dining rooms, a kitchen and a bath beside an earthen passage to the workshop.

Built in 1934, this 2-story clay-walled kura in Kainan kept costly raw lacquer safe from summer spoilage, with high iron-shuttered windows and a king post truss.

Raised in 1927, this brick hall in Kainan is where refined lacquer was packed into barrels; in 1958 its termite-hit sawtooth roof became riveted steel trusses.

Set in Kitayama, Japan's only municipal exclave, the 1847 main hall of Tōkō-ji combines a hōjō sanctuary and kuri wing under plank-clad gables called gangi.

On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.

The 1887 main house of the Nakasuji branch family in Wasa, Wakayama: a 205 sq m single-storey home prized for deep beams and a cherry-wood veranda. Registered 1998.

A gatehouse of about 1887 facing the road on the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with a lower store attached; plaster and clapboard run unbroken.

A Taisho-era earthen storehouse on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with an okiyane roof and a boarded base matching its neighbour.

A Taisho-era building on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, joining two tatami guest rooms to a store for tableware. Registered in 1998.

An 1887 service building with toilet, bath and store north of the Nakasuji gatehouse in Wasa, Wakayama City, its roof set just below the store's. Registered 1998.

A Taisho-era gate-house at the Nagatake farmstead in Wakayama: a 23-metre tiled range with black-plaster walls and a thin white line. Private; seen from the lane.

A south-facing early Meiji farmhouse in Nanayama, Kainan, once thatched and now tiled: a timber single-storey house with a doma and a four-room plan. Private home.

At 867 metres, this 1928 timber station is Koyasan's rail gateway: early-Showa round windows under a pyramidal roof topped by a sacred jewel, restored in 2015.