Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

A late Edo storehouse for rice and oil at the corner of a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, with a loading door opening onto the moat that runs along the estate.

A late Edo utensil store at a headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka, clad in tall boards on the street side like the adjoining wall, and plastered white inside.

A late Edo headman's farmhouse in Takaishi, Osaka, 268 square meters, with a thatched living end, a tiled end with a low loft and archaic beams over its earth floor.

A late Edo tea room joined to a headman's house in Takaishi, Osaka: two tatami rooms with alcoves and shelves, a bark-edged alcove post and a light pantile roof.

The gatehouse of a late Edo headman's estate in Takaishi, Osaka: a tiled hip-and-gable roof, grey plaster walls, a latticed window and side rooms that open inward.

Built in 1924 on the site of Japan's 1922 Housing Improvement Exposition in Minoh, this compact timber house shows the Japanized bungalow style of Amerika-ya.

An 88-square-meter Taisho guest wing in Tondabayashi, Osaka: a 15-mat room with alcove and carved transoms, and a 10-mat antechamber. Registered 2008; not open.

A 45-meter tile-roofed fence of the early Taisho period in Tondabayashi, Osaka, on a diagonal-laid stone wall with boards and plaster above. Registered in 2015.

A 476-square-meter Meiji sake brewing hall in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a steep gable roof, a brick koji room and a red-brick chimney. Registered in 2008.

A two-storey farmhouse of 1830 to 1867 in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with an earth-floored kitchen, an old cooking range and a Taisho-era roof. Registered 2008; not open.

A 1957 tea room in Tondabayashi, Osaka, made from a sake barrel about 2 meters across, with a conical bark roof, an alcove and a round window. Registered 2015.

An early Showa timber storehouse in Tondabayashi, Osaka, 13 by 5.7 meters, joined to the sake brewery, with an open lean-to and log beams. Registered 2015; not open.

A Taisho storehouse about 18 meters long in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a plastered street wall and a tea room facing the garden at its west end. Registered 2015.

An early Taisho nagayamon gate in Tondabayashi, Osaka, with a plastered rice store on one side and a 6-mat sitting room on the other. Registered in 2015.

The Ueda Family Residence Main House in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1933, sets a Western-style parlour beside the entrance of a Japanese house with a central corridor.

The Ueda Family Residence Annex in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1940, pairs a cedar-bark sukiya lower floor with a bay-windowed sunroom looking out over the estate.

The Ueda Family Residence Storage Shed in Toyonaka, Osaka, built in 1933 behind the main house, keeps the standard form of shed of the Higashi-Toyonaka estate.

The Udatsuya townhouse in Nishinari, Osaka, built in 1913, has plastered udatsu fire walls at its front and a sukiya-style entrance with round windows.

A late-Edo machiya in Kaizuka, Osaka, said to date from after the 1854 Ansei earthquake: single-storey, 374 square meters, with heavy beams over its earthen floor.

A Meiji-era wall on the old Kishu Kaido in Kaizuka, Osaka, linking a townhouse to its storehouse: 7.3 meters in 6 bays, with a doorway behind removable boards.