Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

Salt money built this 1891 house in Kojima. Six columns carry an open upper verandah in colonial style, a rare survival among Okayama's Meiji Western buildings.

The smallest of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this household store links to the parlor and is floored in tatami above. Registered 2024.

An early-Meiji dozo at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, plastered to the eaves and pairing an open rice store with a household strongroom. Registered 2024.

On the Oda River's west bank in Ibara, Okayama, the 1882 shop and main house of Yamanari Sake Brewery shows a long plastered Meiji frontage. Registered in 2024.

The largest of six listed buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this brewing hall is built around a sealed malt room. Registered in 2024.

The only one of six buildings at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama registered as a model of design, this 1915 parlor has a tokonoma alcove and garden veranda.

The larger of two brewing halls at Yamanari Sake Brewery in Ibara, Okayama, this early-Meiji storehouse still fills its tanks each winter. Registered in 2024.

Assembled from fired Bizen stoneware at Yuga Jinja Hongu in Kurashiki, Okayama, this 1894 gate stands 4.7m tall with single-fired joints. Registered in 2024.

A late Edo sanctuary of just 3 square metres beside the main hall at Yuga Jinja Hongu in Kurashiki, Okayama, keeping archaic plate-like kibana. Registered in 2024.

The stone steps and walls of Ryūjōin Temple in Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture, date to the late Edo period. Eight broad stone steps spanning 9 meters wide and a 37-meter stone wall create the distinctive elevated landscape of this hilltop temple, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. The walls reveal four distinct phases of masonry construction.

The Bell Tower Gate of Ryūjōin Temple in Tamano, Okayama Prefecture, is a rare hybrid structure built in 1922 combining a reinforced concrete lower story with granite and white tile finishes and a traditional wooden upper story with an irimoya roof. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, it represents a unique fusion of Western and Japanese architectural traditions virtually unparalleled in the region.

The Main Hall of Ryūjōin, located at the foot of Mount Terayama in Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1819. Featuring a six-room hōjō-style layout, an elegant mukikarahafu entrance gable, and dynamic komainu and tiger carvings, it exemplifies the finest craftsmanship of late Edo-period temple architecture. The temple also serves as a station on the Kojima Shikoku Pilgrimage.

Built in 1925 for children of Kurashiki's mill workers, this timber wing by Nishimura Isaku keeps its stone entrance arch and hipped nursery room. Registered 2009.

The smaller of two surviving 1925 wings at this Kurashiki nursery, Nishimura Isaku's south building opens east onto a brick terrace and play yard. Registered 2009.

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