Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

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.

Discover the former Matsumoto Residence in Takarazuka, Hyogo — a beautifully preserved 1937 Western-style house designed by University of California-trained architect Kawasaki Shinobu, now a nationally registered tangible cultural property.

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.

An 1820 tea house on the grounds of a Sasayama sake-brewing family, where a six-mat room and a lintel rail can be closed to the classical four-and-a-half-mat tea size.

A large late-Meiji earthen storehouse on the Nishio grounds in Sasayama, on a granite base with plaster up to the eaves. Once a brewery store, now a museum and gallery.

A late-Edo annex at the northeast corner of the Nishio compound in Sasayama, following the old San'in highway. Its stepped roof, gate and wall frame the entrance garden.

A two-storey earthen storehouse on the Nishio grounds in Sasayama, joining two separate vaults under one placed roof, with twin doorways under an earthen canopy.

Along the north edge of the Nishio compound in Sasayama, an outer wall follows the old San'in highway to a copper-roofed gate, linking the main hall to the tea house.

Zuihō Bridge is a graceful granite drum bridge spanning the sacred pond of Nishinomiya Shrine, Japan's foremost Ebisu shrine, in Hyogo Prefecture. Donated in 1907 by the founder of Hakutaka Sake Brewery and enhanced with bronze balustrades in 1922, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property embodies the deep connection between Nishinomiya's renowned Nada sake-brewing heritage and its most sacred place of worship.

The purification pavilion of Nishinomiya Jinja stands on the approach, columns rising from stone pedestals under a copper roof. Built in 1934, it predates the war.

The dosho-sha of Nishinomiya Jinja is a tiny one-bay building on the approach, its four faces filled with diamond lattice. Built in 1904, it is the oldest of the six.

The west wing hall of Nishinomiya Jinja mirrors its eastern twin beside the main hall. A small one-bay building of 1961, it completes a symmetrical sanctuary.

The worship hall of Nishinomiya Jinja is a reinforced-concrete building before the main sanctuary. Built in 1961, its wings enclose the ritual courtyard.