Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Rebuilt in 1954 after a wartime air raid, the Kanda Shrine Kagura Hall opens its west side for rites by removing a post. The youngest of 12. What to see.

Built in 1935, the Kanda Shrine Saikan fits a full formal alcove into eight mats and lights its anteroom with a round lattice window. What to see and how to visit.

The Kanda Shrine Assembly Hall, built in 1882 and moved here in 1924, holds formal Edo-style rooms under a roof that changes from hipped to gabled. How to view it.

Built in 1758, the Kanda Shrine Sacred Horse Stable is the oldest of its 12 registered buildings and shelters a wooden horse carved that same year. What to look for.

Built in 1780 by a team including carpenter Tanegashima Kanzaemon, the Kanda Shrine Shinmon Gate changes its bracketing and rafters between storeys. How to view it.

The Kanda Shrine Earthen Wall, a late Edo wall of tile and clay courses 20 metres long, frames the approach to the Shinmon gate. Inside the gate its layers show.

Built in 1773, the Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Ichinosha Main Hall hides a bark-roofed sanctuary with an arched eave inside a tiled hall. How to see it.

The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Gonosha Main Hall of 1860 is the twin of the Yonnosha hall, identical but for its porch carving. How to compare the pair.

The Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Sannosha Main Hall is a tile-roofed shrine of 1860, just 1.1 square metres, with a central post and two doors. What to look for.

At 0.49 square metres, the 1860 Kanda Shrine Subordinate Shrine Yonnosha Main Hall is the smallest of 12, with a coarse bark roof and a carved pine porch.

The Kanda Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse is a mid-Meiji clay-walled store built around its portable shrine, fronted by a copper-roofed curved gable. What to look for.

The Kanda Shrine South Gate, an 1889 koraimon 4.1 metres wide, carries its eaves on heavy cantilever beams and faces the road from Kaizuka Station. What to see.

The kyakuma at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era reserve guest room. Though a secondary space, it was finished with choice timber and registered in 2006.

The genkan at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, dates from about 1752, the oldest of the temple's four registered buildings. Its karahafu gable marks a formal entrance.

The shoin at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a late-Edo hall and the largest of the temple's four registered buildings. It looks two-storeyed but has a single lofty floor.

The taikoro at Gantokuji in Kadoma, Osaka, is a Meiji-era drum tower. A long range on a cut-stone plinth faces the street, and its tower carries cusped katomado windows.

This gabled timber house in Higashiosaka was raised in the late Edo period and moved to its present site in 1872. It was registered in 2006 for its landscape value.

Completed in 1931 for an Osaka steel merchant, this concrete house closes the view at Otebashi bridge. Its Tatsuyama stone facing matches the old Sumitomo Building.

Built in 1932 as a spinning firm's clubhouse to a design by Setsu Watanabe, Jisen Kaikan in Kishiwada, Osaka, is a Spanish revival hall registered in 1997.

A narrow three storey timber townhouse of 1928 in Osaka's Semba district, the Kitano Residence used tile, copper and udatsu firewalls against fire. Registered 2006.