Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Late Edo in date, the Aritoshi Shrine North Purification Pavilion in Izumisano carries far more carving than such shelters usually do, with pierced brackets.

Built in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Rear Gate and East and West Openwork Fences enclose the main hall and record how the precincts were replanned after the move.

Built new in 1942 for the relocated precincts, the Aritoshi Shrine Open Corridor in Izumisano runs eleven open bays along a stone wall to the main hall.

A late Edo stone girder bridge of 3.9 metres, the Aritoshi Shrine Drum Bridge is the only one of the shrine's eleven registered properties that is not a building.

The Aritoshi Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano runs eleven bays in a single file, its roof framing left open, with a porch added in 1942.

Built in 1669 and moved whole to its present site in 1942, the Aritoshi Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano packs dense carving into a hall of just 6.6 square metres.

Early Edo in date and open on all four sides, the 5.8 metre square Aritoshi Shrine Dance Hall in Izumisano serves each year as a stage for torchlit Noh.

Rebuilt in 1940 and moved two years later, the Aritoshi Shrine South Purification Pavilion in Izumisano shelters a large stone basin inscribed with 1694.

Located in Ikeda City, Osaka, the Ikeda Pia Maru Center (Former Ikeda Industrial Bank Head Office) is the oldest reinforced concrete building in the city, completed in November 1925 and designed by Ogasawara Hisashi (Shōkō). Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2004, this elegant Taishō-era bank now lives on as a coworking and startup incubation hub.

The Ikoma Watch Shop in central Osaka, built in 1930 to a design by So Hyozo, is a five-storey corner building with a clock tower and scratch-tile walls.

A late Edo farmhouse in Fukae, Osaka, with a two-level roof, a four-room plan and a suspended Buddhist altar that the Agency ties to floods. Registered 2023.

A small storehouse of about 1889 in Fukae, Osaka, set on a tall dressed-stone base after flood damage in 1885, with curved sangi-zumi corners. Registered 2023.

An early Showa storehouse in Fukae, Osaka, on level ground beside the raised storehouse, its attached walls closing the edge of the old compound. Registered 2023.

A gatehouse of about 1889 in Fukae, Osaka: one tiled roof over gate and wing rooms, a heavy timber door and a lattice window facing the street. Registered 2023.

An earthen wall of about 1889 in Fukae, Osaka, running 41 metres along two sides of an old compound, with a moulded cornice, a pebbled base and a stone-framed door.

A timber wall of about 1889 in Fukae, Osaka, running 29 metres along two sides of an old compound, 2.1 metres high on the north and 1.7 on the east. Registered 2023.

A 1960 two-storey Ema Hall at the shrine entrance that doubles as a gate, with a sword and arrow on its ridge and guardian statues among the votive plaques.

A 26-meter copper-roofed openwork fence of about 1931 that runs back from the worship hall, flanks the main hall and stops at its stone base; registered in 2025.

A T-shaped 1931 worship hall and offering hall at Ishikiri Tsurugiya Shrine, a curved porch gable under a triangular gable, the rear roof tucked under the main hall.

A 1931 sanken-sha nagare-zukuri main hall on a tall stone platform in Higashiosaka, with tortoiseshell rain guards on its gables and Daibutsuyo-style beam ends.

Osaka’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.