Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hyogo

Discover Yutoya Ryokan's registered storehouse, a dozo rebuilt after the 1925 North Tajima Earthquake on the grounds of a 330-year-old inn in Hyogo's historic Kinosaki Onsen.

Discover the Yutoya Ryokan Covered Walkway in Kinosaki Onsen — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property that blends refined sukiya aesthetics with playful hexagonal motifs inspired by the nearby Genbudo basalt caves.

Yoryuji Nio Gate stands as the main entrance to Ryuzan Yoryuji, a Tendai-school mountain temple in Taka Town, Hyogo Prefecture. Built during the Edo period (1661–1751) and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, this three-bay, single-entrance two-story tower gate showcases refined proportions and subtle Daibutsu-yo architectural influences. Discover this quiet gem of northern Harima, along with its Heian-period Buddhist statues and sacred forest.

Tucked into the mountains of Tako, Hyogo, Yoryuji Main Hall is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1751. This Tendai temple, traditionally founded in the seventh century by Hodo Sennin, preserves a remarkable group of Heian-period Buddhist sculptures and over 1,300 years of devotional history centered on the legendary Willow Kannon.

Ryotei Bunshiro Kyukan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. This pre-war culinary ryokan features a stately shoin-style banquet hall and individually designed guest rooms showcasing sukiya and soan aesthetics, with remarkable ceiling craftsmanship including umbrella and wickerwork designs.

Ryotei Bunshiro Shinkan is an early Showa-period tatami room building located in the former castle town of Miki City, Hyogo Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it features five guest rooms with distinctive sukiya-style designs including umbrella and woven bamboo-strip ceilings, preserving the refined atmosphere of pre-war Japanese cuisine-focused inns.

The Main Hall of Renjoji Temple in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture, is a Jodo Shinshu Buddhist temple hall originally built in 1933 as the Oomoto religious movement's Kakumeiden hall. Relocated and adapted in 1936, it features a King Post Truss roof structure, an asymmetrical worship porch, and a distinctive cusped window, earning its registration as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

The Roy Smith House Garage, formerly the garage of the Otani Family Residence, stands at the northeast corner of a Spanish-style estate on the southern slopes of Mount Rokko in Nada Ward, Kobe. Built around 1935 as part of a trade merchant’s villa designed by architect Shimizu Eiji, this two-story wooden structure with a ground-floor garage and an upstairs chauffeur’s waiting room was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2011. The property is now owned by the Kobe University Rokkodai Fund. It is not open to the public, but visitors can appreciate the garage, the main house, and the long stone perimeter wall from the street outside.

The Roy Smith House Main Building in Kobe's Nada Ward is a refined two-story wooden Spanish-style mansion designed by Shimizu Eiji and completed in 1935 as the residence of trader Otani Shigeru. In 1960 it was purchased by the former students of Professor Roy Smith, an American educator who taught at Kobe University for more than half a century, and gifted to him in gratitude. Today it is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property, prized as a rare example of the Hanshin-kan modern movement nestled in a quiet hillside neighborhood at the foot of Mount Rokko.

A registered Tangible Cultural Property in Nada, Kobe. Built around 1935 as part of a grand estate designed by Eiji Shimizu for a Kobe trading merchant and later dedicated to American professor Roy Smith, the granite-faced gate pillars and a 111-meter Mikage stone wall embody early-Showa elite residential culture.

A remarkably intact 1934 summer villa on Mount Rokko above Kobe, designed by the renowned Vories Architects firm. This single-story wooden retreat preserves original features including a twenty-mat living room, adze-finished beams, and a stone fireplace. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it opens to the public on weekends from April to November.

Discover the Former Tsujikawa Post Office in Fukusaki, Hyogo — a 1923 wooden pseudo-Western building with charming postal-mark decorations, now home to a yokai-themed book cafe and boutique inn near the childhood home of folklorist Yanagita Kunio.

No crawl entrance, only a high kijinguchi: this small Nishinomiya tea house follows the Fumai school of Matsue, a lineage rarely built in the Kansai region.

Tea-house scholar Okada Takao designed this 331-square-metre Nishinomiya house, which pivots from Spanish tile to tatami. Registered property, open by booking.

Japanese storehouses are normally earthen-walled; this one in Nishinomiya is reinforced concrete, with a tatami antechamber and a darkroom set at the front.

Tatsumi-gura, the southeast storehouse of the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Cut stone base, boarded lower wall, round gable window.

The Onaya at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Two joined frames, an earthen floor, a mezzanine and exposed-post plaster walls.

Kita-gura at the former Hirayasu residence in Kawanishi, Hyogo, dates from 1918. Its eaves floor runs continuously with the covered passage from the main house.

The Lower Stone Bridge of the Hirao Family Residence, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Morio, Toyooka City, Hyogo, is a late Edo-period (1751–1829) stone bridge measuring 3.0m long and 1.5m wide. Built of four combined stones, it spans the Morio River within the grounds of the Hirao family — once Tajima's largest landowner and grand village headman (ōjōya). Together with the estate's gates, storehouses, and washing shed, it preserves a rare and complete pre-modern rural landowner's compound.

A late Edo-period stone bridge at the Hirao Family Residence in Toyooka, Hyogo. This 3.0-meter arched stone span across the Morio River, refined in the Meiji era and registered as a cultural property in 2008, links the gatehouse to the main residence of one of Tajima's foremost landowning families.