Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

Built in 1698 by master engineer Tsuda Nagatada under orders from Okayama domain lord Ikeda Tsunamasa, this stone breakwater on Otabu Island in the Seto Inland Sea is one of Japan's finest surviving Edo-period port structures. Registered in 1998 as the first breakwater to become a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the legacy of a historic harbor that once sheltered Kitamae-bune trading ships and feudal lord procession vessels.

Formerly the Mimamoridono, this 48 square metre pavilion of 1885 issues amulets and tablets, and mirrors the shrine office across the court. Listed in 2024.

An 1848 thatched hall of 274 square metres, moved to this site in 1882. Its 36.5-mat teaching floor and the founder's own room both survive. Listed in 2024.

Built in 1885 as the Mikedono, a hall for sacred offerings, this 46 square metre pavilion is now the priest's room and the shrine's reception. Listed in 2024.

A late Edo gatehouse of 58 square metres on the street, with a gable at one end and a hipped gable at the other, and charred cedar walls. Listed in 2024.

An 1885 hall of 262 square metres with a paired-gable roof and a column-free teaching floor spanned by one long beam. Listed in 2024, and still in daily use.

An 1885 covered passage of 27 square metres joining the worship hall to the shrine office, with a roofed branch running north to the martial arts hall. Listed 2024.

An 1885 roofed passage of 27 square metres running from the worship hall to the amulet office, its raised corner floor doubling as a store. Listed in 2024.

Built in 1899 as the movement's main preaching hall, this 616 square metre building uses timber trusses to clear some 200 mats without a column. Listed 2024.

An 1885 sanctuary at the birthplace of Kurozumi-kyo in Okayama City. At 37 square metres it carries paired gables, carving and metal fittings. Listed in 2024.

An 1885 gate 2.2 metres wide with 62 metres of fence around the sanctuary, carrying a carved rabbit among waves and standing on tightly cut stone. Listed in 2024.

Okayama Former Bank of Japan Hall, built in 1922 by Nagano Uheiji, carries a Corinthian portico in granite. It survived the 1945 air raid and is now a concert hall.

Okayama Temperance Hall was built in 1923 as the base of a movement against drink. The timber building survived the 1945 raid and still houses a ground floor cafe.

Built in 1910 as the officers' club of the army's 17th Division, this timber building carries Ionic columns and semicircular pediments. Registered in 2012.

Completed in 1957 alongside the main block, this three-storey chamber by Maekawa carries an unbroken line of perforated brick beneath its cantilevered top floor.

Maekawa returned to his own Okayama site in 1971 with struck concrete instead of glass: a lattice facade over an open ground-floor colonnade, base-isolated in 2004.

Kunio Maekawa's first government building, completed 1957 on the site of Okayama Castle, registered in 2024. Piloti, raised corridor, black curtain wall.

A 1919 timber judo hall at Okayama Asahi High School, built for the elite Sixth Higher School. Springs in the floor gave it bounce, and it survived the 1945 raid.

A cut-stone gate from 1900, the year the Sixth Higher School opened, with a 1,032-meter wall around the Okayama campus. Both can be seen from the street.

A 1930 reinforced-concrete book store beside its 1902 brick twin at Okayama Asahi High School, its cornices and windows matched so the pair reads as one.

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