Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

A Showa-period shop on a street corner in Chuo Ward, Osaka, Japan. A timber building with a tiled front in the signboard style, it bears green Spanish tiles above.

A Showa-period public bathhouse in Ikuno Ward, Osaka, Japan. Divided at the attendant's seat, with statues on its front, it was recorded in use but closed in 2019.

The Shotokukan Main House in Higashiosaka is timber merchant Mori Heizo's 1939 home, Japanese outside, with rooms mixing Japanese and Western design in prized wood.

A church of 1925 facing Sakaisuji in central Osaka, Gothic in its pointed arches but deliberately flat across the front so it sits in the street. Listed in 2000.

A Showa-period row house in Osaka, Japan. Concrete below and timber above over there even now, following the slope of the ground itself even so today.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kojumon Gate is the early Edo four-legged gate fronting the main sanctuary in Osaka, with an unusual stack of beams and struts above its doors.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Obunko Library is a storehouse built around 1723 by booksellers of Osaka, Kyoto and Edo to hold books, called the oldest library in Osaka.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Shiga Shrine Main Hall in Osaka is a late 17th-century three-bay shrine for the three sea gods, among the oldest buildings in the grounds.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Daikai Shrine North Small Gate is a late Edo munamon gate in Osaka, paired with a south twin to frame the front of the Daikai subsidiary shrine.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Daikai Shrine South Small Gate is a late Edo munamon gate in Osaka, moved around 1881, paired with a north twin at the front of Daikai Shrine.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Wakamiya Hachimangu Torii Gate is a small 1907 stone torii in Osaka with square pillars and straight lintels, a rare form in the grounds.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Wakamiya Hachimangu Main Hall in Osaka is a one-bay shrine of about 1810, the main halls in miniature, with pine and doves on its doors.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha West Great Torii Gate is the stone Myojin torii at the shrine's main entrance, 6.1 m wide and 6.4 m high, facing the Sumiyoshi Toriimae tram.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Gosha Main Hall is a 1964 five-bay shrine in Osaka for the ancestors of seven priestly families, a wide variation among small one-bay shrines.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Godosha Main Hall is a late Edo one-bay shrine deep in the garden in Osaka, dedicated to the god of the land, in small-scale Sumiyoshi style.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Nankunsha Worship Hall is a 1956 hall in Osaka with a T-shaped roof and an earth floor for the crowds who come on the monthly Hattatsu days.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Temizuya Pavilion is a late Edo water pavilion in Osaka with fan rafters, projecting brackets and a coffered ceiling, ornate for its size.

The Aoyama Building of 1925 in Osaka, a five-storey concrete block built with homes below and rental rooms above, is an early mid-rise urban dwelling.

A 1950 storehouse in Chihayaakasaka, Osaka's only village, fitted with tatami rooms and a run of sliding glass doors upstairs. Registered 2007. Privately owned.

Built in 1881 in Chihayaakasaka, Osaka's only village, this farmhouse sets six slatted mushiko windows into black lime plaster. Registered 2007. Closed to visitors.

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