Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Discover the Former Korede Chikari Residence, a unique Western-style castle designed by a physician in 1931. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Sakai features Corinthian columns, a central tower, and a remarkable story near the Mozu Kofun UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Built in 1925, this shinkabe storehouse holds a rice store and a tile store. Its gabled roof mixes heavier tile to the south and lighter tile to the north.

Main building of the Kotanijō museum: a late-Edo home of the Kotani, village headmen. A copper-clad gabled wing meets a tiled reception hall and a stepped entrance.

At the east end of the front row, this late-Edo storehouse, once a rice store and now the exhibition room, is the only one of the five registered as a model of design.

This Taishō dozō east of the gate holds a rice store and a book store. Its library reflects the record-keeping of the family that later founded the museum.

The oldest of the museum's five buildings, this mid-Edo gate is said to have come from the Hakata domain around 1871. Its front has board doors and comb-shaped windows.

Built in 1911 for a Tanimachi clothing merchant and moved to its present Osaka site in 1957, this three-story earthen storehouse was registered in December 2024.

Completed in 1903 behind a medicine merchant's house on Osaka's Doshomachi, this earthen storehouse stayed registered when its neighbours were designated in 2001.

Built in the late Taisho era and registered in 2008, this detached wing of a Takatsuki mountain farmhouse sets two parallel rows of rooms, one formal, one sukiya.

Built in 1828, the oldest of eight registered buildings on a Takatsuki farm, this small clay-walled kura joins a row of white-plastered storehouses facing the road.

Discover the Kobayashi Newspaper Shop and Residence, a 1929 reinforced-concrete and wooden building registered as a national tangible cultural property. Located in Osaka's historic Hirano district, it also houses the Newspaper Museum.

A 1935 wooden hall in Osaka's Edobori, pairing temple carpentry with the Konkokyo faith—a Sect Shinto founded 1859. Designed by Ikedaya Hisakichi; spared from wartime fires.

A 103-meter Edo-period earthen wall on the east bank of the Amano River at Kongō-ji in Kawachinagano, Osaka. Plastered over a stone footing and capped with pantiles, it marks the boundary of a vanished sub-temple quarter.

Jigan-ji's bell tower in Yao, Osaka, built in 1900, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This open frame on a cut-stone base hangs its bronze bell from the gable.

Jigan-ji's drum tower in Yao, Osaka, dates to the late Edo period. Its offset upper storey with cusped windows rises above the earthen wall beside the main gate.

Jigan-ji's ablution pavilion in Yao, Osaka, covers barely 12 square metres. Carved details date it to the 1660s, the oldest of the temple's five registered buildings.

Jigan-ji's main hall in Yao, Osaka, rebuilt in 1817, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This Shinshu hall is 19 metres wide and centres a temple town from 1606.

Jigan-ji's side gate and earthen wall in Yao, Osaka, date to early Meiji. A one-bay gate and a 12-metre tiled wall run north to the main gate, edging a temple town.

Built in 1907 as a court branch office, this earthen-walled storehouse on the old Koya pilgrimage road keeps its register shelving and iron windows. Free entry.

Built in 1938 at a Shingon temple in Kawachinagano, Osaka, Jizoji Kuri is a six-room priests' residence with a lesser cuckoo carved above its formal entrance.

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