Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The west storehouse of the Sato Family Residence is a late-Edo plastered store for household goods, two storeys under a tiled gable roof. Registered in 2019.

The east storehouse of the Sato Family Residence is a late-Edo tool store, the smallest of its four registered plastered buildings. Registered in 2019.

Mimasaka-Takio Station in Tsuyama keeps its original 1928 wooden building, a registered cultural property. The opening scene of the final Tora-san film was shot here.

Hokoku Station in Takahashi is named for the scholar Yamada Hokoku, said to be Japan's first station named after a person. Its 1928 building is a cultural property.

Minagi Station in Soja is the oldest surviving station house on the Hakubi Line, built in 1925 as a standard government-railway design. It marked its centenary in 2025.

Built in 1905 on the site of Edo era dormitories, this timber schoolhouse in Bizen, Okayama sits inside the grounds of Japan's oldest school for commoners.

Jissaiji's guest hall in Kurashiki survives from the priests' quarters: a late Edo thatched building of 103 sq m with an alcove and writing bay. Registered 2019.

Jissaiji's gate in Kurashiki is a tiled yakuimon of 1884, its 2.6-metre opening flanked by earthen sleeve walls and carried on flattened posts. Registered 2019.

Jissaiji Bell Tower in Kurashiki was built in 1879 and moved from the cemetery in 1926. It reuses older timbers and drops one tie beam to clear the striking log.

Jissaiji Outer Wall and Stone Wall in Kurashiki encloses the temple's east and north sides: a 61-metre Meiji earthen wall set on 71 metres of old stonework.

Jissaiji Barn in Kurashiki, from about 1884, stands by the temple gate with a hipped south end and a gabled north end, and it served as a flood shelter in 1893.

Jissaiji Main Hall in Kurashiki dates from 1649. Chamfered posts, shallow scrolls and curved beams made it the only one of six temple buildings registered for form.

A late Meiji house in Tsuyama, Okayama, registered in 2009 as a model of architectural form. Thick, naturally curved logs cross in a grid over its earthen doma.

A late Meiji clay storehouse in Tsuyama, Okayama, registered in 2009. First used for rice, it has a separately set gable roof, plaster walls and board skirting.

A long late Meiji barn in Tsuyama, Okayama, listed in 2009. Its south half held a store and room above; the north half stabled horses and cattle under a hay loft.

A late Meiji gate and well shelter fronting the old Izumo road in Tsuyama, Okayama, registered in 2009. Inside is an octagonal tuff well inscribed April 1907.

A Taisho munamon gate on the old Izumo highway in Tsuyama, Okayama, set between roofed board fences and registered in 1997 for its part in the historic streetscape.

A Taisho reception wing at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 174 square meters, glazed fittings wrapping both storeys, a divisible tatami suite on each floor.

The late-Edo main house of the former Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 211 square meters, a vertically raised front door, rooms rebuilt in the Taisho era.

Chigusa-sha, the tea house of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 11 square meters under a slate roof, the smallest of the eight buildings registered there.

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