Important Cultural Property of Hyogo

The principal hall of Engyoji on Mount Shosha near Himeji, rebuilt in 1933 to a design by Takeda Goichi after fire, cantilevered over a slope, designated in 2024.

Built in 1406 for the temple guardian deity, the Gyoja Hall at Kakurinji in Kakogawa joins a Kasuga-style shrine front to a hip-and-gable rear under clay tiles.

The Goma Hall at Kakurinji in Kakogawa, built in 1563, is a square hip-and-gable hall without brackets, Wayo outside and Zen style inside, and the youngest on site.

The Jogyo Hall at Kakurinji in Kakogawa is a late Heian hall for Tendai walking meditation, a hipped tile-roofed building entered from its short east end.

Built in 1407, the Bell Tower at Kakurinji in Kakogawa has a skirt-like hakamagoshi base and holds a Goryeo-dynasty Korean bell, normally rung only on New Year Eve.

Kangiin Shotendo in Miki, Hyogo, is a small 1411 cypress-bark shrine hall, the city's oldest, an Important Cultural Property noted for its rare veranda bracketing.

In Itami near Osaka, the Former Okada Residence is a townhouse dated to 1674, rare for its century, fronting Japan's oldest sake brewery with a known build date.

The former Kodera stables of about 1907 in Kobe's Sorakuen, brick stables attributed to Kawai Kozo, have a spiral stair tower and grooms' rooms upstairs.

The former Hassam house of 1902 in Kobe's Sorakuen, built in Kitano by the Englishman Hassam to designs by Hansell, is one of the finest foreigners' houses in Kobe.

The main hall of Kukuhi Shrine in Toyooka, Hyogo, a three-bay nagare hall of 1507, is unusually lively for a shrine, with many frog-leg struts and rich gables.

Former Kobe Foreign Settlement No. 15, a brick-and-timber trading house of about 1881, is the only one left in the old settlement and was rebuilt after 1995.

The Kobayashi Family House in Kitano, Kobe, built around 1903 for the American consul Hunter Sharp, is a colonial-style house open to visitors today as Moegi House.

Jodoji's Yakushi Hall in Ono, rebuilt in 1517, faces the Jodo-do across the court and mixes Daibutsu, wayo and karayo styles, from katomado windows to its ceiling.

The main hall of Takakura Shrine in Tanba, Hyogo, built in 1705 by local carpenters, is among the region's largest shrine halls, with gables and painted carvings.

The main hall of Takamefu Shrine in Sanda, Hyogo, built in 1513, is a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall of cypress bark, designated with a ridge tag and an old beam.

Jōonji, a Nichiren temple in Amagasaki's Teramachi quarter, holds two Important Cultural Properties: a 1623 Main Hall and the city's only tahōtō, a 1607 pagoda.

The bell tower of Chokoji in Kato, Hyogo, from the late Kamakura period, is an Important Cultural Property with a flared skirt near the temple's main hall.

The Momoyama red gate of Nishinomiya Shrine, Hyogo, designated in 1926 and now an Important Cultural Property, said to be Hideyori's gift and start of the lucky man race.

Nyoi-ji's Amida Hall in Kobe, an early Kamakura building regarded as the city's oldest, has a lattice-shuttered front and an Amida statue of the same age inside.

Built in 1385 and dated by an inscription on its finial, the Nyoiji pagoda is Hyogo's second-oldest, a Tendai tower near Kobe enshrining three Buddhas.

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