Important cultural property
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The Takamuro estate in Kofu, Yamanashi, home of physicians to the Kofu garrison, keeps a thatched main house of 1788 with its dispensary among nine listed buildings.
The main hall of Takeda Hachiman Shrine in Nirasaki, Yamanashi, built in 1541, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark with five ridge tags.
The main hall of Chokokuji in Minami-Alps, Yamanashi, dated to 1524, is a three-bay hip-and-gable hall of a temple said to date back to the monk Gyoki in 718.
The main hall of Tenjin Shrine in Yamanashi City, built in 1522, is a small one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, with a long, flowing front roof.
The Buddha hall of Tokoji in Kofu, Yamanashi, a late Muromachi Zen hall with a pent roof under cypress bark, is the only building to survive both 1582 and 1945.
A ridge tablet dates this one-bay cypress-bark sanctuary to 1478. Set among the vineyards of Makioka, it served four villages and was designated in 1953.
A late 17th-century thatched farmhouse in Hokuto, Yamanashi, 19.7 metres wide, built for a village headman. Designated in 1989, open near Kobuchizawa Station.
Built in 1612 at Mount Fuji's second station and moved to the lakeside precinct in 1973, this large, richly carved one-bay Momoyama hall was designated in 1985.
The Former Mutsuzawa School in Kofu, an 1875 timber schoolhouse with a central tower in the Fujimura style, stands by Kofu Station as the Fujimura Memorial Museum.
The Monzai Family Residence in Minobu, Yamanashi, an Important Cultural Property since 1964, is a late 17th-century thatched farmhouse typical of the Fuji valley.
The stone thirteen-storey pagoda of Anyoji in Ritto, Shiga, made at the end of the Kamakura period, survives today with its ninth, tenth and eleventh tiers missing.
The main hall of Iimichi Shrine in Koka, Shiga, built in 1649, layers a triangular gable and a cusped gable over its three-bay porch, all roofed in cypress bark.
The main hall of Ikuwa Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, from the early Muromachi period, is a one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated with 2 ridge tags.
The Kasuga branch shrine at Ikuwa Shrine in Yasu, Shiga, a small nagare-style hall of the late Kamakura period, is thought to be older than the main hall itself.
The main hall of Isasa Shrine in Kusatsu, Shiga, built in 1468, is a one-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated with two ridge tags.
Four buildings at Ishiyama-dera in Otsu designated in 2008: the Mieido, the cliffside Renjo-do, a once brightly painted shrine and a log sutra house on bedrock.
The late Kamakura belfry of Ishiyama-dera in Otsu, an Important Cultural Property since 1907, with a white skirted base, bark roof and a Heian bell rung from below.
The main gate of Ishiyama-dera in Otsu, an eight-legged gate reshaped around the Keicho era and designated in 1907, with Nio guardians and a Toyotomi crest.
The listed stone hokyointo at Ishiyama-dera in Otsu: the left of 2 pagodas west of the Tahoto, an early Muromachi memorial to Kamegaya Zenni designated in 1961.
A mid-Muromachi one-bay shrine hall with a flowing roof in the Inari Shrine precinct at Yasu, Shiga. Designated in 1917, it once served the vanished Fukurin-ji.