Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

The Tanioka Memorial Hall of 1935 in Higashiosaka, Osaka, a clock-tower school rebuilt after the Muroto Typhoon, now houses a university museum of trade history.

Tamate Bridge in Kashiwara, Osaka, registered in 2001, is a five-span suspension bridge of 1928, built for an amusement park and carried on castle-like white towers.

Built in 1874, this is the oldest registered building at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka, and served as its main hall until 1928. Chrysanthemum and wave carvings.

At 127 square metres, this 1932 building is the largest registered structure at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Three gabled blocks push forward toward the approach.

This 1.6 square metre pavilion of 1928 shelters a natural stone basin at Chihaya Shrine, Osaka. Posts run to the ridge; two tiers of brackets carry the eaves.

Chihaya Shrine's 1928 worship hall, by Oe Shintaro, is open on all sides but for one set of rear doors, so the eye passes straight through to the forest.

Oe Shintaro designed this 1928 hall on the Chihaya Castle site in Osaka. Slender timbers and finely worked door fittings distinguish it. Registered in 2024.

Just 2.5 square metres, this 1932 subsidiary shrine at Chihaya Shrine in Osaka repeats the Main Hall's round columns, tie-rails and tall gable pendant.

A mid-Meiji farmhouse in Akagawa, Osaka, registered in 2025 as Asahi Ward's first listed building. Deep eaves, a wide odo door, an attic reached only by ladder.

A single-bay yakuimon gate of 1751-1829 in Osaka's Shitadera-machi temple row, the only building at Choshin-ji to survive the 1945 air raids. Registered in 2008.

Osaka's landmark observation tower in Shinsekai, rebuilt in 1956 by Naito Tachu after the 1912 original was lost. Decks at 87.5m and 94.5m. Registered in 2007.

A late Edo earthen storehouse on a corner in Izumisano, trapezoidal because its walls follow two streets. A survivor of the shipping town's iroha warehouse rank.

A 55-metre brick culvert with a horseshoe barrel, drawing Yamato River water into the Nagase since the 1880s. Registered in 2001 and still irrigating 226 hectares.

Built in 1946 and moved in 1959, this registered Osaka tearoom houses three rooms for sencha, sukiya carpentry crossed with Chinese detail and Indian chintz walls.

An 1848 earthen-walled storehouse in central Osaka, remodelled in 1941 into the sencha tearoom Dokuraku, with a tiled earth floor and Chinese-patterned window bars.

Tsuji Family Residence Living Room, a late-Meiji tatami room in Osakasayama, sits lower than the two earthen storehouses flanking it on the estate's north edge.

Tsuji Family Residence Rice Storehouse, an 1870 earthen kura in Osakasayama, has a set-on roof, two lean-tos and a round window facing the fields. Private home.

Tsuji Family Residence Partition Wall, a gated 13-metre Meiji wall in Osakasayama, splits the forecourt of the main house from the garden of its formal room.

Tsuji Family Residence Main House, a thatched yamato-mune farmhouse of 1879 in Osakasayama, pairs a reed roof with tiled wings. Private home; registered in 2006.

Tsuji Family Residence High Wall runs about 42 metres around the west of a Meiji estate in Osakasayama, on cut stone, with family-crest tiles and a Hotei figure.

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