Important Cultural Property of Hiroshima

House of Rai Shunpu, uncle of Rai San'yo, in Takehara, Hiroshima: five buildings including an 1855 main house and gatehouse in a samurai-style layout.

Six Edo-period buildings at Jodoji Temple, Onomichi: the 1690 Hojo, Karamon, guest hall, storehouse, rear gate and the Rotekian tea house linked to Hideyoshi.

Jodoji Temple Amida Hall in Onomichi was built in 1345 as the temple's main hall. A hipped-roof wayo hall; see how it differs from its neighbor and how to enter.

Jodoji Temple Main Gate in Onomichi is a 14th-century four-legged gate with the Ashikaga crest in its gables and eaves matching the Main Hall porch. What to see.

Jodoji Temple Sutra Stupa in Onomichi is a 1278 stone stupa, the oldest dated monument at the temple, raised by a merchant's son with sutras sealed inside.

The south Hokyointo at Jodoji Temple, Onomichi, long called Ashikaga Takauji's grave, is a 14th-century stone stupa with its spire intact. Tradition and facts.

The 1348 Hokyointo at Jodoji Temple, Onomichi, 3.2 meters tall, was raised for the living and the dead and shows a receiving platform typical of the region.

Reinforced-concrete cathedral in Hiroshima by Murano Togo, dedicated on August 6, 1954 to mourn the atomic bomb victims, with a 45-metre bell tower and brick walls.

A mid-eighteenth-century thatched farmhouse in Miyoshi, Hiroshima, an Important Cultural Property since 1978, moved and restored when a dam flooded its site.

On Miyajima, this garden erosion-control works rebuilt a typhoon-hit valley as fieldstone dams and pools, Japan's first postwar civil-engineering cultural property.