Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama

Saidaiji Gooshoden Main Hall, Tsuriden and Worship Hall, built by Oku carpenters in 1880 in Okayama, leaves its roof framing exposed. Registered in 2017.

Saidaiji Temple Bell Tower Gate, a one-bay Edo gate set into the precinct wall in Okayama, hangs a Goryeo-period Korean bell. It was registered in 2019.

Saidaiji Temple Niomon Gate of about 1740 in Okayama carries the twelve zodiac animals carved around its balcony panels, with Nio guardians below. Registered 2019.

Built in 1932 as the Yamada village office, this symmetrical concrete building in Wake, Okayama shows Expressionist touches. Free entry by advance booking.

This 1909 bank in Tsuyama, Okayama looks like carved stone but is entirely timber, its Renaissance orders worked in wood. Now a free folk craft museum.

Around 1917 a dentist in Konko, Okayama built half a Western house and half a Japanese one. Stick Style boards and a decorative gable truss face the street.

The main house of the Sato Family Residence stands on a Kurashiki plain reclaimed from the sea in the 1720s, a mid-Edo thatched farmhouse registered in 2019.

Built in 1858, the nagayamon of the Sato Family Residence is a tiled farm gatehouse, a store on one side and a sitting room on the other. Registered in 2019.

The west storehouse of the Sato Family Residence is a late-Edo plastered store for household goods, two storeys under a tiled gable roof. Registered in 2019.

The east storehouse of the Sato Family Residence is a late-Edo tool store, the smallest of its four registered plastered buildings. Registered in 2019.

Mimasaka-Takio Station in Tsuyama keeps its original 1928 wooden building, a registered cultural property. The opening scene of the final Tora-san film was shot here.

Hokoku Station in Takahashi is named for the scholar Yamada Hokoku, said to be Japan's first station named after a person. Its 1928 building is a cultural property.

Minagi Station in Soja is the oldest surviving station house on the Hakubi Line, built in 1925 as a standard government-railway design. It marked its centenary in 2025.

Built in 1905 on the site of Edo era dormitories, this timber schoolhouse in Bizen, Okayama sits inside the grounds of Japan's oldest school for commoners.

Jissaiji's guest hall in Kurashiki survives from the priests' quarters: a late Edo thatched building of 103 sq m with an alcove and writing bay. Registered 2019.

Jissaiji's gate in Kurashiki is a tiled yakuimon of 1884, its 2.6-metre opening flanked by earthen sleeve walls and carried on flattened posts. Registered 2019.

A Taisho munamon gate on the old Izumo highway in Tsuyama, Okayama, set between roofed board fences and registered in 1997 for its part in the historic streetscape.

A Taisho reception wing at the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 174 square meters, glazed fittings wrapping both storeys, a divisible tatami suite on each floor.

The late-Edo main house of the former Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 211 square meters, a vertically raised front door, rooms rebuilt in the Taisho era.

Chigusa-sha, the tea house of the Kajimura estate in Tsuyama, Okayama: 11 square meters under a slate roof, the smallest of the eight buildings registered there.

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