Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

Completed in 1895 beside the tower, this brick warehouse of 36 square meters held a rest room and a store under a king-post truss, its mortar walls scored like stone.

Built in 1895, this 85-square-meter brick residence housed the Ogijima keepers, its door topped by a segmental fanlight. Since 1994 it has been the lighthouse museum.

Discover the Osaka-ke Residence Nagayamon, a registered tangible cultural property in Ayagawa, Kagawa Prefecture. This imposing Meiji-era gatehouse with hip-and-gable roof preserves the heritage of rural Shikoku.

Discover the former main gate of Zentsuji Daiichi High School in Kagawa Prefecture, a registered tangible cultural property built in 1922 to commemorate the Imperial Army Special Grand Maneuvers. This brick gate with granite details stands as a remarkable testament to Taisho-era craftsmanship and local history.

Discover the Kamada Kyosaikai Local History Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Sakaide, Kagawa. Built in 1922 as one of Japan's earliest reinforced concrete libraries, this Taisho-era gem houses 60,000 historical artifacts including Important Cultural Properties related to the scientist Kume Michika.

The Red Gate at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a hipped-and-gabled gate abutting the No. 13 store; painted red ochre, it was remade from an 1843 row gate.

Kamebishi's pressing house in Hikita, Kagawa was once a merchant home; this early-Meiji building now presses fermented moromi into raw soy sauce.

The No. 1 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Meiji store that once held soybeans; its namako-kabe base and red-ochre walls shape the street.

The former No. 4 and No. 6 warehouses at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa are an early-Meiji pair meeting at a right angle, likely once a wholesaler's buildings.

Kamebishi's warehouse in Hikita, Kagawa is a two-story earthen store on granite footings, its west gable bearing the founding Okada family's oak-leaf crest.

The No. 5 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa moromi store whose red-ochre street walls carry the brewery's palette across the road.

Kamebishi's workshop in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Taisho building, two stories with a three-story end that once pasteurized soy sauce; it is the tallest here.

The No. 3 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa now stores moromi, but a raised roof monitor for venting heat points to its origins as a boiler room.

Kamebishi's 24-meter koji house in Hikita, Kagawa holds five mezzanine chambers built for the mushiro-koji method the brewery alone still keeps in Japan.

Once a detached parlor, Kamebishi's storeroom in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Meiji building whose formal tiled roof marks the residential heart of the compound.

Kamebishi's former main house in Hikita, Kagawa, built in 1780, is now its office, shop and exhibition, and the largest of the brewery's 18 registered buildings.

The No. 11 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is a late-Edo soy store recorded in the family's records as raised in 1807, from the founding era.

The No. 10 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa now stores moromi; its unusually high interior suggests it began as a brewing hall on the eastern edge.

The No. 13 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa store with a roof monitor and red-ochre walls, closing the street beside the Red Gate.

The No. 12 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is the smallest of the 18, marked by an asymmetric maneki roof, charred-cedar boards and drip tiles.