Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1923 earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, raised on a tall granite base, with white plaster walls, a boarded skirt and a hongawara roof.

A middle-Taisho earthen storehouse at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, set at right angles to its twin, with a pan-tile gable roof and an iron canopy.

A hemp-palm merchant's house in Kainan, Wakayama: late-Edo living quarters joined in 1906 by a three-storey wing with a railed top floor and palm-leaf roof tiles.

A small bracket gate of about 1906 at the Yamamoto estate in Kainan, Wakayama, roofed in rounded local tiles, with single-board doors and a black plaster side wall.

Built in 1936 in Yuasa, a soy-sauce town, this steel-framed auditorium pairs a triple-arched porch with rhythmic ribbed side walls near the old quarter.

Built around 1933 by a Mio man who prospered in Canada's salmon fishery, this Japanese house with a clapboard Western parlor now serves as a town-run guesthouse.

A concrete gate and fence with washed-aggregate finish, pilasters and stepped coping front the Yushin-an house, a 1930s street face and Registered Cultural Property.

A tall four-legged gate of the mid-Edo period stands before the Important Cultural Property main hall of Risho-Gokoku-ji, the temple locals call the Great Temple.

Cut from local rhyolite in the late Edo period, these steps and wall hold Ryogon-ji to its mountainside and frame the main hall. A Registered Cultural Property.

Built in 1857, this Rinzai Zen main hall stands plain on a stone terrace above Ono hamlet, without canopy or brackets, its strength lying in sturdy joinery.

The Wakayama architects' association built this compact 1966 modernist office for itself, with tiled facades, a floating upper wall, and hidden rainwater pipes.

Completed in 1938 and modeled on the National Diet Building, Wakayama's prefectural hall survived the wartime bombing and still serves as the seat of government.

A 52-meter timber inspection shed at Idakiso Station, framed with king-post trusses of rough logs and two sunken floor pits. Built in 1916 and still in service; registered in 2014.

A 43-meter stone platform from 1916 and an early-Showa steel shelter whose posts are reused railway rails, finished with a dentil cornice. Registered together in 2014.

A 36-meter steel five-span girder bridge built in 1933 to carry the line across Oike pond, using seven-meter I-beams unusual for the period. Registered in 2014.

The longest bridge on the Kishigawa Line at 51 meters across seven spans, built over Oike pond in 1933, with cylindrical concrete piers and dry-stone wing walls. Registered in 2014.

A 14-meter steel two-span girder bridge about 3 km west of Idakiso, its girders staggered to cross an irrigation canal at a sharp skew. Built in 1916, the oldest of the line three registered bridges.

Built in 1926 by a local Koyasan carpenter, this private wooden house is a registered cultural property in a World Heritage landscape, but it is closed to visitors.

Wagoan Storehouse at Koyasan is a two-storey earthen-walled store of about 1926, registered in 2008. Just 22 square metres, roofed in copper shaped as pantiles.

Wagoan Wall runs 7.4 metres along a Koyasan lane, clad in flattened bamboo outside and woven cedar bark within. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2008.

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