Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

The Terada Family Residence Main Gate in Kaizuka, Osaka, built in 1936, uses wrinkled cedar poles and a steep tiled roof that reads convincingly as thatch.

The Terada Family Residence South Gate in Kashiwara, Osaka, combines a gateway with a storage room and leaves the timber frame of its roof visible from below.

A three-storey former private house of about 1939 in Kashiwara, Osaka, with an octagonal rooftop tower, green-glazed tiles and wire-mesh concrete walls. Not open.

A c.1939 storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, first built as a vaulted single-storey block, extended in 1945-1954, with Corinthian door capitals and mesh-concrete walls.

A c.1939 two-storey house in Kashiwara, Osaka, that looks like a storehouse but has wire-mesh concrete walls, offset hipped roofs, board eaves and balustrade trim.

A c.1939 concrete railing 13 metres long and 57 centimetres high beside the approach to a Tenrikyo church in Kashiwara, Osaka, with wire mesh exposed between posts.

The classroom wing of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a long timber building of 1933 east of the main building, has three classrooms behind walls of glass doors.

The main building of Tokajuku in Tondabayashi, Osaka, a timber welfare building of 1933 on a green hillside, has a central porch, large windows and an upstairs hall.

Dobuike Textile Hall, a tiled concrete building of 1922 on a corner of Dobuike street in Osaka, keeps rounded corners and dentils beneath its deep eaves.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Temizusha, a large purification pavilion moved from Yasukuni Shrine, with three round columns at each corner and a slatted transom.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall, 1941: a five-bay hip-and-gable hall of unpainted cypress with a chidori gable and a granite-paved floor.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Main Hall, a 1940 Kasuga-style sanctuary three bays wide in unpainted Taiwanese cypress, seen through its lattice wall; why it was listed.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Gate and Lattice Wall, 1940: a 55-meter openwork fence on kerbstones enclosing the main hall, with a gabled gate and carved kaerumata.

Tomobayashi no Uji Shrine Wakamiya Hachimangu Hall, built in 1940 as a school hoanden and moved here: a rare wooden shinmei-style hall with upright ridge posts.

This two-storey late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, adjoins the gatehouse side door. Its heavy tiled roof rests on a cambered beam and posts.

This early Meiji building east of the main house in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, holds two 8-mat rooms and a former hearth room. An 1835 plan helps date it.

This mid-Meiji timber shed in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, doubles as the estate's street wall. Its north side is open; double doors let long logs in.

Built in 1826 for a headman family in Suita, Osaka, this main house was registered in 2003. Dated mallets and tiles survive; guided tours by booking Wed, Sat, Sun.

This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, once touched the main house but was hauled north in the Meiji era and extended. It now serves as rooms.

This late Edo storehouse in Suita, Osaka, registered in 2003, was moved north in the Meiji era. Inside, two rooms; the west lost its upper floor to become a store.