Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Toshoji Temple Waterway Stone Walls and Stone Bridge in Yakage, Okayama, is a late Meiji stone-lined channel with a granite bridge before the gate. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Zen Hall and Guest Monks' Quarters, built in 1838 in Yakage, Okayama, splits one 27 m building into a meditation hall and guest lodge. Listed 2011.

Toshoji Temple Second Gate, a late Edo gate 250 m up the approach in Yakage, Okayama, is plastered white to the eaves with altar shelves on its sides. Listed 2011.

Toshoji Temple Abbot's Quarters and Shoin, built in 1753 in Yakage, Okayama, holds alcoved guest rooms, a tea room and a formal shikidai entrance. Registered 2011.

Built in 1697, Toshoji Temple Main Hall in Yakage, Okayama, is a north-facing Soto Zen hall 19 m wide with a six-room plan and coved ceilings. Registered in 2011.

Toshoji Temple Gate and Earthen Walls in Yakage, Okayama, are early Meiji plastered walls 75 m long beside the Sanmon and around the priest's house. Registered 2011.

A tile inscribed 1786 dates this headman's house in Niimi, Okayama, raised on a long stone wall below a mountain fortress. Still a private home, not open.

This 1916 Western-style house in Wake was built as a dental clinic with living quarters. Its corner tower and German siding made it a landmark of eastern Okayama.

Ten years in the building, this Taisho landowner's house anchors the medieval street grid of Bizen Fukuoka. It opens on scheduled days, with tea included.

A 29-square-metre late-Edo storehouse south of the Nagashiki main house on Konoshima. Namako-kabe at the corners, a granary on the earthen floor. Registered 2024.

A Taisho yakuimon gate in the Nagashiki garden on Konoshima, 1.3 metres wide, carrying a bracket block, a winged strut and close-set rafters. Registered 2024.

A late-Edo farmhouse on Konoshima that grew a Taisho guest parlour under temple-derived roofs. Doubled eaves, a tokonoma, a reclaimed sea below. Registered 2024.

The 1930 director's residence at Nagashima Aiseien, Japan's first national Hansen's disease sanatorium, pairs a Western wing with Japanese rooms. Registered 2019.

At the heart of Nagashima Aiseien stands its 1930 administration building, with Expressionist touches. Since 2003 it has held the History Museum. Registered 2019.

On Nagashima's north shore, the 1930 reception building was where new arrivals first entered, examined and disinfected, before a week's confinement. Registered 2019.

Beside the bathhouse at Nagashima Aiseien stands the 1930 laundry, where residents washed bedding and clothing as assigned work. Built in concrete. Registered 2019.

The 1930 Hide Bathhouse at Nagashima Aiseien still has ceiling steam vents, a skylight and, rare for prewar Japan, hot-water showers. Registered in 2019.

The worship hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, shows his style in its rafters, ceiling and bracket arms.

The offering hall of Nakayama Shrine in Tsuyama, Okayama, built in 1922 to a design by Egawa Saburohachi, is open on all sides under a boat-bottom ceiling.

Nishie Family Residence Retirement Quarters, Takahashi: an early Meiji sukiya annex behind the main house, the only one of nine registered as a model of design.

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