Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

A 1930 tea-garden privy in Himeji, 0.9 m² with a corner cut for its door, an asymmetric cedar-bark roof, rust-toned clay walls and a lattice window. Registered 2022.

A 1940 house in Himeji by architect Ebihara Ichiro, pairing a slate-paved porch and strip-windowed Western parlour with sukiya-style tatami rooms. Registered 2022.

A 1930 waiting pavilion for tea guests in Himeji: tiled bench, entry, three-mat room and preparation area in 17 m², with a cedar-bark eave and smoked-bamboo ceiling.

A 1930 tea preparation house in Himeji: six-mat room, earth-floored work area, privy and storeroom, clad in cedar bark to the garden and boards to the street.

A 1930 bracket gate in Himeji leading guests to the tea garden, with knotted log posts, adze-carved braces, polished-log purlins and bamboo rafters. Registered 2022.

The former Maya hotel on Mount Maya above Kobe, built in 1930, has curving walls wrapped in canopies and an Art Deco interior that recall a vanished mountain resort.

The Western-style house of the former Muto family villa at Maiko, Kobe, built in 1906, has a round balcony facing the sea and a complex roof of natural slate.

Built in 1888 for the Nanakamaya merchants of Hamasaka, this timber townhouse keeps nine tatami rooms behind a lattice front and now opens daily as a town museum.

The Yagi family's household storehouse at Himeji, the only building on the site firmly dated to 1846, a two-story mud-walled store with a raised-beam roof.

Main house of the Yagi family, hereditary headmen on the Ibo River in Himeji, a large single-story farmhouse under a hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2021.

A two-story mud-walled storehouse in the Yagi compound at Himeji. Its west half is a shoin parlor for receiving domain officials, its east half a plain store.

The rice granary of the Yagi family, who held the annual tax rice at Himeji. This two-story mud-walled store sits by a former waterway for loading by boat.

The gatehouse of the Yagi compound at Himeji. Behind its formal tiled facade with a wicket door lay the estate's counting room to the west and a cattle shed.

The former Yamatoya Ryokan of 1927 on Yunosato-dori in Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a narrow three-storey inn, fronts the hot spring street with glass doors and railings.

The smallest of five registered structures at a 1930s Nishinomiya villa by Okada Takao: a timber gatehouse of nineteen square metres with a stone-faced side gate.

The former Wadamisaki Lighthouse, rebuilt in iron in 1884 and now in Suma Beach Park, Kobe, is Japan's oldest iron lighthouse, called the Red Lighthouse of Suma.

Late Edo stone retaining walls, 109 metres long and up to 5 metres high, that level the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago, their mixed masonry a record of repair.

An early Showa well in the Kusaka garden in Awaga, Asago: granite blocks notched into a square curb 0.7 metres across over a 4.1-metre shaft, edged with fieldstone.

An 1846 storehouse joined to the Kusaka main house in Awaga, Asago, 6.0 by 5.0 metres, with plaster, pebble render and stone in three bands and garden windows.

A mid-Meiji stable by the front gate of the Kusaka compound in Awaga, Asago: 3.9 by 4.1 metres, with cattle kept below, servants above, and plain clay walls.

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