Important cultural property
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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.
Dated to 1453 by ink inscriptions on its timbers, the Monju-do at Nyoi-ji in Kobe rises from a hillside on a raised floor, standing beside two more medieval halls.
Completed in 1900 and still in use, Kobe's Gohonmatsu Dam was Japan's first gravity concrete water-supply dam, the core of nine Meiji structures listed in 2006.
The Myokendo of Hasedera in Tambasasayama, Hyogo, once a temple guardian shrine, is a plain one-bay nagare-style shrine of the mid Muromachi period in a cover hall.
The Hachiman Shrine Three-Storied Pagoda at Rokujo Hachimangu in Kobe's Yamada-cho was built in 1466, dated by a ridge tag. See its upswept bark roofs and bus route.
The Hachiman Shrine Worship Hall at Jodoji in Ono is a 7-bay passage hall with a tiled hipped roof; its open frame borrows Chogen's Daibutsu style. Designated 1901.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall in Nakasuji, Takarazuka, is a late Muromachi kasuga-style sanctuary with a refined front gable, rebuilt from its own timbers in 1996.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall, Jodoji's guardian shrine in Ono, is a mid-Muromachi bark-roofed nagare-zukuri hall with early double-beam gables and carved kaerumata.
The Hachiman Shrine Main Hall at Hazu Hachiman Jinja in northern Takarazuka is a shingle-roofed nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1403, with doors in both gable ends.
At Kaibara Hachimangu in Tanba, Hideyoshi's 1585 rebuild joins a gable-fronted worship hall to a bark-roofed main hall. A 5-minute walk from JR Kaibara Station.
The Hunter Residence in Kobe, a Victorian-style timber house of 1907 built for the English entrepreneur Edward Hunter, closed at the end of 2025 for seismic work.
The sanctuary of Hiide Shrine in Toyooka, Hyogo, an Engishiki-listed shrine, is a three-bay nagare-style hall of the late Muromachi period with original details.
Himeji Castle's 74 turrets, gates and walls, an Important Cultural Property since 1931: the Hishi Gate, Princess Sen's Kesho Yagura, the long corridor and repairs.
Rebuilt in 1626, Hiromine Shrine Worship Hall in Himeji stands eaves to eaves with the eleven-bay sanctuary. Its east bay was dropped and its sides left open.
Designated in 1953, Hiromine Shrine Hokyointo stands on the slope beside the approach in Himeji. Incised moon discs and Sanskrit syllables mark its four faces.
Rebuilt in 1444, Hiromine Shrine Main Hall in Himeji runs eleven bays across, a scale rare in shrine building. Nine holes in its rear wall serve a nine-star rite.
The shrine cabinet and three-tier altar in the main hall of Fukushoji in Suma, Kobe, made in 1368, are a three-bay cabinet with a later cusped gable and its altar.