Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

The guest wing of the former Okanoya Ryokan in Katsuyama, Okayama, a late Meiji inn on the Asahi River, has rooms facing the water and a veranda over the bank.

The gate and wall of the former Okanoya Ryokan in Katsuyama, Okayama, of the late Meiji period, have a delicate diamond-lattice transom and pierced fences.

A 1931 timber station on the Katakami Railway, the ore line from the Yanahara mine. Its pointed waiting-room gable, stone ticket gate and platform are free to visit.

A 1912 timber county office with an entrance tower and a coffered assembly hall, said to be Okayama's only surviving one, now open free as the Shoo Furusato Museum.

A late-Edo storehouse with namako-kabe walls, the only survivor of the Kimura family's post-town inn at Katsumada, kept when the county office rose in 1912.

The former Kyobashi fire watchtower in Okayama, built in 1924 at the west end of the Kyobashi bridge, is a 21-metre steel tower topped by a pyramid-roofed lookout.

Kenzo Tange's 1960 Kurashiki city hall, with prestressed beams spanning about 20 metres and a stacked hollow-block facade. It has been an art museum since 1983.

Observation room of Kurashiki Observatory, Japan's first public observatory (1926), whose iron gabled roof slides apart by hand crank. Moved to Life Park in 2013.

An 1825 village headman's reception wing on an old road in Shimoazae, Maniwa, with white plaster walls and 4 linked tatami rooms, now the restaurant Hotaru-an.

The former Yamada branch of the Ajino salt office in Tamano, Okayama, a monopoly office of 1908 by a river, has varied roofs and bright white clapboard walls.

The archive of the former Yamada salt office in Tamano, Okayama, a brick store of 1908, has a segmental-arched window and stone dressings set off against the brick.

Built in 1915 as the head office of Ushimado Bank, this one-storey bank has German header-bond brick walls and a tall hall with a floral plaster cornice. Now open.

A 1917 timber hospital in Tsuyama with a domed porch, reddish scraped-mortar walls and artificial-stone Corinthian columns, now open free as Josai Romankan.

A Meiji stone well with a leaning-post shelter at poet Nagase Kiyoko's birthplace in Akaiwa, Okayama, registered in 2017 and still drawn on for a goemon-buro bath.

An early Meiji townhouse in Akaiwa, Okayama, where poet Nagase Kiyoko was born and wrote; it has a diagonal brick floor and four-room plan, registered in 2017.

The northernmost of five registered buildings on a Kurashiki estate, this 1914 storehouse matches its neighbor in black plaster and tile but is larger, at 69 m².

Built around 1914 for businessman Nakayama Setsutaro, this Kurashiki house has a granite-floored formal entrance and a 15-mat reception room with a large alcove.

A 1914 two-story storehouse on a tall stone base at the rear of a Kurashiki estate, its black plaster walls edged with white namako tile cladding and a tiled drip.

A 27-meter gatehouse of around 1915 guarding a Kurashiki estate, with double doors of solid zelkova, plastered eaves and servants' rooms built into its wings.

A 1914 annex in Kurashiki joining an airy guest pavilion to a black-plastered storehouse; its upstairs room looks south to Mizushima and the sea beyond.

Okayama’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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