Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

A mid-Meiji storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama, with dragon-and-tiger plaster relief inside its shutters. The only one of nine registered as hard to reproduce.

A mid-Meiji guest wing at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: an eight-mat room with alcove and writing bay, and a formal entrance aligned with the front gate. Not open.

A mid-Meiji yakuimon gate with a carved gable ornament and 25 meters of plastered wall, clapboarded outside and lined with boat planks within, at Tsuji Honten.

Once a storeroom, soy sauce store and barn, this late-Edo earthen building by the Tsuji Honten shop became an office in 1979 yet kept its namako walls.

The largest storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama: a Meiji-period earthen building grown around an older lean-to, its street gable crossed by 2 drip ledges.

A late-Edo townhouse facing Katsuyama's old Izumo road, shop and home split by a central earthen passage, namako tiling on its upper walls. Viewing tips.

A mid-Meiji sake storehouse at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama with a massive stacked-beam roof frame, now the brewery shop and restaurant, open during business hours.

An early-Showa garden wall at Tsuji Honten in Katsuyama, 47 meters long, on a concrete footing, with cement tiles on one run and fired pan tiles on the other.

A mid-Meiji household shrine in the Tsuji Honten garden, Katsuyama: only 0.2 square meters, yet with a karahafu porch, bracket sets, carved struts, double rafters.

Tsuyama's 1933 city hall below the castle ruins, a symmetrical concrete building with a five-tier tower, now a local history museum. Registered 2006; open.

The Tsuyama Christian Library of 1926 below Tsuyama Castle, Okayama, founded by a disciple of Uchimura Kanzo, has an Ionic entrance, a clock tower and wall reliefs.

The main hall of Tenchuin in Soja, Okayama, built in 1828, faces south over farmland, a fine late Edo-period Rinzai Zen hall with six rooms behind a broad veranda.

Tenraian, a tea house of 1914 in Kibichuo, Okayama, said to be the first work of garden designer Shigemori Mirei, has three alcoves and was moved by him in 1969.

Toshoji Temple Founder's Hall and Memorial Tablet Hall, built 1716-1735 behind the main hall in Yakage, Okayama, houses portraits of its founders. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Priests' Quarters, built in 1752 in Yakage, Okayama, is a 28 m Zen kitchen block with an earth-floored hall, facing the Zen Hall. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Shoin Getsusen-in in Yakage, Okayama, is an early Meiji head priest's residence with a tiled roof, lattice gables and its own wall. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Bell Tower, a two-story belfry of 1838 in Yakage, Okayama, sets an ornate upper story with arched windows across its lower roof. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Waterway Stone Walls and Stone Bridge in Yakage, Okayama, is a late Meiji stone-lined channel with a granite bridge before the gate. Registered 2011.

Toshoji Temple Zen Hall and Guest Monks' Quarters, built in 1838 in Yakage, Okayama, splits one 27 m building into a meditation hall and guest lodge. Listed 2011.

Toshoji Temple Second Gate, a late Edo gate 250 m up the approach in Yakage, Okayama, is plastered white to the eaves with altar shelves on its sides. Listed 2011.