Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Rebuilt in 1961 on its excavated footprint, the Golden Hall of Shitennoji Temple in Osaka was the first ancient Japanese hall reconstructed from dug evidence.

Built in 1808 as the gate of a hall enshrining Tokugawa Ieyasu, this small four-legged gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now stands before the Prince Shotoku hall.

A late Meiji tea house in the abbot's garden at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, planned around one trapezoidal and one triangular room joined by a service space.

The south gate of the walled precinct at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka, rebuilt in 1963 with guardian kings in its side bays and deliberately kept to a single storey.

Once the Shoten hall of a Mie branch temple, this three-bay pyramidal building at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka now shelters ashes before their final interment.

Said to come from Osaka's 1903 industrial exhibition, this octagonal timber pavilion at Shitennoji Temple carries Corinthian capitals and coloured glass windows.

Built as the gate of the hall enshrining the Tokugawa shoguns, this 6.2 square metre bow-roofed gate at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka is carved with a guardian dragon.

The Shibakawa Building in Osaka, an Art Deco office block of 1927 near Yodoyabashi, wears Maya and Inca style ornament and now houses shops and cafés.

The Shotokukan Guardian Shrine in Higashiosaka is a 1939 household shrine called Hachiman-san, a Hachiman-zukuri copy of Usa Jingu's sanctuary on a granite base.

The Shotokukan Storehouse in Higashiosaka joins two 1939 two-story storehouses under formal tiled roofs with a lower link, 13 ken long. Registered in 2000.

The Shotokukan East Wall in Higashiosaka is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1939 along the Nagase River, with exposed posts, a boarded base and a planted strip before it.

The Shotokukan South Wall in Higashiosaka is a 70-meter roofed wall of 1939 that turns at the estate's southeast corner, fronted by a timber fence along a side lane.

The Shotokukan Gate in Higashiosaka is the 1939 front gate of timber merchant Mori Heizo's home, a yakuimon with a gently swelling roof and single-board doors.

The gate of Shinkoji in Osaka's temple quarter, a one-bay yakuimon of the mid-Edo period facing Matsuyamachi-suji, is admired for its finely carved beams.

The main hall of Shinkoji in Osaka's temple quarter, rebuilt in concrete in 1929, takes an Indian look with a dome, multi-lobed arches and finial-like ornaments.

The Waterworks Memorial Hall in Osaka, a brick pumping station of 1914 at the Kunijima purification plant, sets off its red brick with granite over the arch.

The 1910 Worship Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka stacks a chidori-hafu over a curved karahafu on its front; its center bay was once an earthen passage.

The 1910 Offering Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka joins the plain Main Hall; in 2.2 sq m it packs carved brackets, frog-leg struts and a decorated king post.

The 1910 Main Hall of Sukunahikona Shrine in Osaka is a plain 3.4 sq m gabled sanctuary of fine timber, registered in 2000 for its proportions and arched gable beam.

The Sumiyoshi Taisha Kaku Torii Gate is an early Edo stone torii before the Kojumon Gate in Osaka, with chamfered square pillars and an upswept lintel 4.1 m high.