Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

The main hall of Daishinji in Kasai, Hyogo, built in 1845, is a standard three-bay Jodo hall whose simplified interior is typical of the late Edo period.

Built in 1851 at Yokoo in Kasai City, Hyogo, the Takai Family Residence Main Building sets barred plaster loft windows over a projecting lattice front.

On the old highway west of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji tool store of 15 square metres carries a roof set clear of its earthen shell.

East of the main house in Kasai City, Hyogo, this early Meiji storehouse was registered as hard to reproduce: its purlins sit on beams cut to a convex curve.

At the property's western edge stands this sukiya-style gate: round-log posts, three-tier framed doors and a cedar-bark roof over wooden shingles, worked with care.

This small plastered storehouse east of the Japanese wing has a honshogawara tile roof and upper eaves sealed in white lime, a quiet record of a Hanshin garden suburb.

Completed in 1928 in Takarazuka's Hanayashiki garden suburb, this registered house pairs a varied hipped-and-gabled silhouette with Art Deco and Secession interiors.

Added to the Western house in 1954, this Japanese wing has an eight-mat room with a polished-log alcove post and a corridor under an arched boat-bottom ceiling.

The front gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a gabled munemon with white-plaster walls. A frog-leg strut supports the ridge, marking it as formal.

The kitchen and well area of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an L-shaped service block on the road corner where a kitchen wing meets a well wing.

The tool storehouse of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, an early-Meiji plastered dozo with shippo-pattern namako tilework. It is the oldest of the five buildings.

The main house of the Takatsu family, doctors near Himeji since the late Edo period. Built around 1894, it has a rare kara-hafu entrance gable and a former clinic wing.

The garden gate and wall of the Takatsu residence near Himeji, a bracket-arm gate dividing the forecourt from the reception garden. It is the newest of the five.

The former Matsumoto residence in Takarazuka, Hyogo, built in 1937 to a design by Kawasaki Shinobu, is a Western-style house with an S-tile roof and a bay window.

A granite plinth beside Kakogawa's copper-clad Takihama Yokan, cut in 1936 for a bronze of fertiliser pioneer Taki Kumejiro that wartime metal drives took.

A mid-Meiji clothing storehouse joined to the Tajika main house in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 6 by 4.4 metres, white plaster partly clad with charred cedar boards.

A mid-Meiji rice storehouse on the Tajika family's western street front in Amagasaki: 2 storeys, 9.6 by 3.9 metres, varying ridge and windows from its neighbours.

The Tajika family's main house in Nishikoya, Amagasaki: late Edo, remodelled around 1887, 19 by 12 metres, with a loft, black plaster walls and layered roofs.

The oldest of the Tajika family's five registered buildings in Amagasaki: a late Edo pair of stores, one 2-storey and one lower, boarded below and plastered above.

The Tajika family's gatehouse in Nishikoya, Amagasaki, renewed around 1887: 13 metres long in black plaster, a gateway and wicket door at one end, behind a hedge.