Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

The back gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a small udegimon at the southwest of the grounds. Barely 1.3 meters across, it carries about 13.8 meters of attached wall.

The front gate of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki. At the center of the north frontage, it opens onto a garden path up to the main house.

The main house of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki with a formal porch and a raised guest chamber, built with fine timber and Kunikane joinery.

The plain maid's quarters of the Ogawa Family Residence, between the main house and storeroom. With a bath and privy, it is a rare late-Meiji record of staff space.

The outer wall enclosing the Ogawa Family Residence, broken on the north by the front gate. It defines the long north-south lot and screens the garden from the street.

The storehouse of the Ogawa Family Residence, a thick-walled dozo near the inner courtyard, built to guard household goods from fire and damp among the courtyard buildings.

The storeroom of the Ogawa Family Residence, on the west boundary beside the maid's quarters, part of the row of service buildings that kept this late-Meiji villa running.

Discover the Uchi-Ōkura, a registered tangible cultural property within the Kajihara estate in Ōshio, Himeji. This Edo-period earthen storehouse reflects the prosperity of salt industry landowners in Hyogo Prefecture.

Discover the Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse in Himeji's Oshio district, an Edo-period earthen storehouse registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Built in 1842 by a prominent salt-field owning family, it features elegant white plaster walls and fine decorative plasterwork.

Built in 1907 as the residence of American citizen M.J. Shea, Kitano Monogatarikan is a colonial-style wooden Western house in Kobe's historic Kitano district. After being devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, it was faithfully reconstructed and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Now home to the Starbucks Coffee Kobe Kitano Ijinkan Store — Japan's first Starbucks in a registered cultural property — it offers a unique experience blending Meiji-era heritage with modern café culture.

A 26-metre riveted steel water tower of 1923 in Takasago, Hyogo, built from Yawata steel by Kawasaki Shipyard for the town's first waterworks. Registered in 2003.

A 1953 municipal apartment block in Ashiya, Hyogo, built of Nikkaseki tuff laid in courses alternating with concrete block. Its eight units now hold studios.

A 1929 telephone exchange in Ashiya, Hyogo, by ministry architect Uenami Akira. Two-tone scratch tile, an arcaded north wall, lion reliefs; now a restaurant.

Completed in 1938 on the inner bailey of Amagasaki Castle, this three-story concrete school rings a courtyard. Registered in 2024, it is now the city history museum.

Built in 1927 and registered in 2024, this Amagasaki school gate spans four meters of concrete clad in roughly worked stone, with thin pyramidal caps on its posts.

Registered in August 2025, this 35-square-metre early Showa tea house on the Otemae University campus in Nishinomiya, Hyogo, is said to copy Kyoto's Hanshoan.

A 1918 timber hall in Kakogawa, Hyogo, pairing a sixteen-mat room with an antechamber and opening onto a garden that holds its own separate heritage listing.

A late-Taisho timber gate facing the lane at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, 4.9 metres wide, keeping Jurakukabe plaster on its rear face and visible from the road.

A Taisho service wing at Mitoro-en in Kakogawa, Hyogo, where polished log posts, lobed windows and a radial bathroom ceiling bring sukiya refinement to a bathhouse.

Built in 1927 as a social hall for the merchants of Hyogo-no-tsu, the Former Okakata Club is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that miraculously survived both the Kobe air raids of WWII and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995. This Secessionist-style Western building preserves the memory of Hyogo-no-tsu's prosperity and will reopen as the Kobe City Historical Archives in June 2026.