Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Registered as the Torajiro Kojima Memorial Museum, this U-shaped brick warehouse of 1906 in Kurashiki was built for the spinning mill, with bold framed doorways.

Konko Gakuen Memorial Hall in Asakuchi is a 1904 timber assembly hall, moved in 1956 and registered in 2014, mixing Japanese and Western design under a hipped roof.

Built in 1930 on a hill in Konko, Okayama, this guest hall hides a timber truss under its irimoya roof and has four tatami-style rooms laid out for chairs. Closed.

The 1930 entrance wing of a guest complex in Konko, Okayama: a copper-roofed irimoya building with a porch, waiting rooms, a kitchen and corridors to two halls.

A 1930 two-storey Western-style guest building in Konko, Okayama, with a corner tower, washed artificial stone walls and medallions, facing a Japanese hall. Closed.

Built in 1927 beside the Konkokyo headquarters in Konko, Okayama, this timber office wears mortar painted like stone and a tall parapet hiding its hipped roof.

Built in 1916 as a religious newspaper's office in Konko, Okayama, this small weatherboarded two-storey building is the oldest of the three Konkokyo Tosha offices.

Built in 1921 on the Konkokyo headquarters plaza in Konko, Okayama, this symmetrical timber office has a stone base, weatherboard walls and a raised central eave.

Saidaiji Stone Gate, raised in 1819 in Okayama City, sets a plastered timber storey on arched masonry. Registered in 2019, it is the largest gate of its kind.

Saidaiji Temple Sutra Repository, a hexagonal hall of 1854 in Okayama, houses an octagonal revolving zelkova sutra cabinet. It was registered in 2019.

Saidaiji Kosodo Hall in Okayama is a three-bay hall of about 1780 under a pyramidal roof, honouring Kobo Daishi beneath a coved coffered ceiling. Registered 2019.

Saidaiji Gooshoden Inner Hall, built 1869 on a stone embankment in Okayama, packs a veranda and dense carving into 9.2 square meters. Registered in 2017.

Saidaiji Gooshoden Main Hall, Tsuriden and Worship Hall, built by Oku carpenters in 1880 in Okayama, leaves its roof framing exposed. Registered in 2017.

Saidaiji Temple Bell Tower Gate, a one-bay Edo gate set into the precinct wall in Okayama, hangs a Goryeo-period Korean bell. It was registered in 2019.

Saidaiji Temple Niomon Gate of about 1740 in Okayama carries the twelve zodiac animals carved around its balcony panels, with Nio guardians below. Registered 2019.

Built in 1932 as the Yamada village office, this symmetrical concrete building in Wake, Okayama shows Expressionist touches. Free entry by advance booking.

This 1909 bank in Tsuyama, Okayama looks like carved stone but is entirely timber, its Renaissance orders worked in wood. Now a free folk craft museum.

Around 1917 a dentist in Konko, Okayama built half a Western house and half a Japanese one. Stick Style boards and a decorative gable truss face the street.

The main house of the Sato Family Residence stands on a Kurashiki plain reclaimed from the sea in the 1720s, a mid-Edo thatched farmhouse registered in 2019.

Built in 1858, the nagayamon of the Sato Family Residence is a tiled farm gatehouse, a store on one side and a sitting room on the other. Registered in 2019.

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