Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

A Western-style house among the old foreign residences of Kitano, Kobe, Japan. Its living and dining rooms run as three with a fireplace, a fine early Showa example.

The 1904 main house of the Iwasa Residence at Toba in Akashi, Hyogo, plastered black with lean-tos on three sides. Listed as a heritage building in 2007.

The 1904 storehouse of the Iwasa Residence at Toba in Akashi, Hyogo, two bays square in white plaster under formal tiles. Listed as a heritage building in 2007.

An early Showa two-story storehouse between the main house and rear annex of the Oishi home in Tanto, Toyooka, linked to both by covered passages. Registered 2011.

A Showa-period station building in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Its own upper floor over there carries two quite separate platforms even so today.

A Showa-period station building in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. Only the west of its own roof over there lies quite flat, under a deck even today.

A Showa-period station building in Toyooka, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It combines its own steel framing over there with reinforced concrete even today.

An Edo-period stone girder bridge in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan. It only runs just 6.0 metres from the one end of it to the other side of it.

A 1948 two-storey earthen storehouse joined to the house in Kato, Hyogo: 4.9 m square, namako tiles on the front only, two round windows and black-plastered doors.

A 1948 earthen storehouse in Kato, Hyogo, twin to the Ae tool storehouse: same size, same front and wing wall, registered in 2021 for the row the pair forms.

A 1948 wing of four tatami rooms in Kato, Hyogo, reached by corridor: high eaves, a pent roof on brackets all round, and boarded walls with bands of clay plaster.

A 1948 L-shaped timber house in Kato, Hyogo: four rooms run from a west entrance, then turn north to a tatami room and altar room, under varied coffered ceilings.

A 1948 storehouse north of the Ae house in Kato, Hyogo, with a front lean-to, a large wing wall and plaster up to the eaves: a fire-wary design, registered in 2021.

A c.1955 two-storey dormitory at the Ae Handkerchief mill in Kato, Hyogo, with eight 10-tatami rooms behind mortar walls and a round-columned entrance.

A 1911 weaving shed in Kato, Hyogo, built for power looms: its 15 by 29 meter plan follows the loom spacing, under six monopitch roofs with clerestory windows.

A c.1955 dining hall at the Ae Handkerchief mill in Kato, Hyogo, set square to the dormitory; painted weatherboards and roof tiles survive, the inside remodelled.

A c.1948 two-storey warehouse on a street corner of the Ae Handkerchief mill in Kato, Hyogo, with iron-clad doors, barred upper windows and a king-post truss.

A small c.1955 cloth inspection shed at the Ae Handkerchief mill in Kato, Hyogo, with a monopitch truss roof, weatherboard walls and its daylight windows intact.

The Akagi Family Residence Stone Wall in Toyooka, Hyogo, runs 202 metres around the estate, up to 1.7 m high, in random-bond basalt and coursed stone.

The Akagi Family Residence Front Gate in Toyooka, Hyogo, is a mid-Meiji gate on heavy posts, with studded doors and a wicket, set on 5 stone steps above the road.

Hyogo’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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