Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Okayama
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A single-storey timber station of 1900 in Okayama, 84 square metres. Of its seven bays, two and a half at the south end serve as the waiting room today.
The main hall of Zenkaku Inari Shrine at Kiyama Shrine in Maniwa, Okayama, designed by Egawa Saburohachi in 1919, has double walls of round and square posts.
A 1927 Stick Style school in Susai, Akaiwa, with clapboard and roughcast walls and a gambrel gable; moved at half size in 1984, now a free local history museum.
Akebono Ryokan in Tsuyama, Okayama, of the early Meiji period, is said to be the oldest inn building in town; its front was cut down, but shoin-style rooms survive.
The annex of Ibara Civic Hall in Okayama, built in 1971 behind the stage, has a rehearsal room and a ventilation tower in the fair-faced concrete of the main hall.
The main building of Ibara Civic Hall in Okayama, a concrete civic hall of 1971, mixes fair-faced concrete of many textures and raises a tall clock tower in front.
Iburodani River Sabo Dam No. 3 in Soja, Okayama, a curved dam of dry-laid boulders of about 1900, raised twice to some 12 metres, is now enjoyed as part of a park.
The 1920 concrete head tank of the Iri station in Kagamino, Okayama, regulating water to the powerhouse, with a spillway and steps and walls of cobblestone.
The 1920 retaining walls of the Iri power station in Kagamino, Okayama: 67 m of mortared cobblestone walls along the penstock and around the powerhouse.
The 1920 powerhouse of the Iri station in Kagamino, Okayama: a timber hall with a copper roof on king-post trusses, the oldest in the Yoshii River system.
Wooden photo studio built in Tsuyama in 1929, with a semicircular reception room, paired arched windows and a north clerestory for daylight. Still a working studio.
A 1927 granite myojin torii at the head of Oura Shrine's approach in Asakuchi, 6.5 m tall, its plaque written by Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi; registered in 2019.
Worship, offering and prayer halls in a row before the main hall of Oura Shrine, Asakuchi; remodeled about 1927, registered in 2019; carved beasts on the porch.
The 1927 sanctuary of Oura Shrine, Asakuchi, on a high stone platform: hip-and-gable copper roof, stacked gables and carved brackets; registered in 2019.
The Oga Family Residence Inner Storehouse in Okayama guards 55 square metres behind iron-grilled windows, thick plaster doors and a boarded lower wall.
The late Edo Oga Family Residence Front Gate faces a canal in Okayama, with deep bracketed eaves and sliding board and lattice doors across 4.1 metres.
Only 1 bay deep, the Oga Family Residence Sundries Store and Mortar Shed turns the street corner of an Okayama merchant estate under a continuous tiled roof.
Okayama's Oga Family Residence Main House anchors a late Edo merchant estate of 9 registered buildings, with a 6-room plan and a tiled namako gable wall.
The Oga Family Residence Pickle Barn and Cargo Barn holds a closed pickling room at one end and an open loading bay at the other, 48 square metres in all.
At 19 square metres the Oga Family Residence Barn is the smallest registered building on this Okayama estate, its northeast corner cut back for a canal.
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