Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

Discover the Former Kaisaki Clinic, a Meiji-era Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Asago City, Hyogo. Explore this evocative medical building nestled within the historic Kuchiganaya silver mining townscape, part of Japan Heritage's Silver Horse Road, Mineral Road.

Built in 1924 and registered in 2016, this clapboard and roughcast house in Kobe's Mikage district sets Western rooms downstairs and Japanese rooms above.

A 25-square-metre bath wing built in 1918 for guests alone, linked by roofed passage to house and annexe. Sukiya woodwork meets tile, marble and a koyamaki tub.

Built in 1918 for a Nishiwaki banker, this registered house hides a central-corridor plan, hanegi beams and iron rods behind an old townhouse face. Free entry.

This 58-square-metre annexe went up before the main house. Its eight-mat room keeps alcove, shelving and writing bay, with a veranda on three sides. Free entry.

Attached to the main house at Ikuno in Asago City, this 22-square-metre storehouse of 1843 keeps a nando below and a tatami room with an alcove above. Free entry.

Where the Yoshikawa plot meets the road in Ikuno, Asago City, this 19-square-metre earthen storehouse of 1872 holds one tall room under a separate roof. Free entry.

The Former Maya Kanko Hotel (Mayakan), nestled on the slopes of Mount Maya in Kobe, is an Art Deco reinforced concrete building completed in 1929. Known as the 'Queen of Ruins' for its graceful, curving silhouette enveloped by mountain forest, it became the first ruin in Japan to be registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2021. Discover the fascinating history and architectural beauty of this iconic heritage site.

Built in 1907 by industrialist Muto Sanji on the Maiko coast, this colonial-style Western residence was designed by Okuma Yoshikuni, the architect who later oversaw the construction of Japan's National Diet Building. Now open to the public within Maiko Park, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property features a distinctive circular balcony, natural slate roof, and original Meiji-era furnishings.

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.

Discover Former Yamatoya Ryokan, a 1927 wooden three-story inn on Kinosaki's Yu-no-Sato Street. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, it embodies the elegant post-earthquake reconstruction streetscape of Japan's beloved 1,300-year-old hot spring town.

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.

Standing in Kobe's Suma Seaside Park, the Former Wadamisaki Lighthouse is Japan's oldest surviving iron lighthouse, built in 1884. Known affectionately as the 'Red Lighthouse of Suma,' this Registered Tangible Cultural Property tells the story of Japan's opening to the world and its early modernization.

Standing directly in front of the east exit of JR Ikuno Station, Kusaka Ryokan is a wooden two-story inn with a three-story wing, built in 1910 and expanded in 1921. As one of only a couple of wooden three-story buildings to have stood along the rail line between Himeji and Kinosaki, it is a remarkably rare survivor and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2004. Its sukiya-style tatami parlors and crane- and cloud-shaped openwork windows offer a vivid glimpse of refined Meiji- and Taisho-era inn architecture in Kuchiganaya, the historic silver mining town of Ikuno.

Kuniumi-no-Yakata, the former Mihara County Office, stands within Awaji Farm Park England Hill in Minamiawaji City, Hyogo Prefecture. Built in 1884 (Meiji 17), it is the oldest surviving county office building in Hyogo and the earliest pseudo-Western (gi-yofu) building on Awaji Island. The wooden two-story structure features a gabled tile roof, clapboard siding with imitation cornerstones, and a striking front porch with paired square and round columns supporting a relief-decorated pediment — all expressions of how Meiji-era Japanese carpenters reinterpreted Western architecture. Damaged in the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the building was carefully reconstructed at its current site in 2007 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.