Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Facing the Koya Kaido at the former Mikkaichi post town, this wide-fronted machiya belonged to the Yagi family, cotton wholesalers turned sake brewers.

This two-storey storehouse turns its gable to the old Koya Kaido: white lime plaster above, charred cedar below, a copper door at each window. Registered 2008.

The gate and 22-metre board fence closing the north edge of the Yagi estate at Korien, designed by Fujii Koji to match the house behind it. Registered 2023.

Minutes from Osaka's Umeda towers, a 42-metre Taisho-era timber wall and gate, listed in 2008, frames one of the city's last surviving nagaya row-house lanes.

The storehouse of the Yoshida brewery in Ikeda, Osaka, maker of Midori-ichi sake: a three-story plaster kura of about 1878, crowned by a Shōki roof figure.

The main building of Yoshida Sake Brewery, from about 1878, is a grand merchant townhouse in the old Osaka sake town of Ikeda, with black plaster and fire walls.

A registered cultural property in Ikeda, Osaka: an 8.8-meter black-plastered wall from around 1878, fronting a sake brewery founded in 1697 on the old Nose Kaidō.

A grand 1932 rice merchant's machiya on Kishiwada's old Kishū Kaidō, with a honkawara-tiled roof, a through-passage doma and rare koematsu pine fittings.

In the satoyama hills of Nose, the northernmost town in Osaka, this thatched village hall enshrines the Medicine Buddha. Traced to 1555 and registered in 2004.

In Kaizuka's temple town south of Osaka, the Yoshimura family traded oil and money as 'Izumiya.' Their late-Edo clothing storehouse survives by the Kishu Kaido.

This registered merchant house in Kaizuka belonged to an oil and money-exchange family, set apart by guest rooms added on its south side in the late Edo period.

This late-Edo earthen storehouse in Kaizuka, Osaka was registered in 2003. Built for a money-changing family, it raises its floor on stone over a buried vault.

The Risai family's main house in Kaizuka's self-governing temple town: a Registered Cultural Property with a stepped gable roof and a possible 17th-century core.

In Kaizuka's old temple town, the Risai family ran an apothecary. Their late-Edo storehouse runs ten bays deep, the south half once stocked with medicinal herbs.

The Risai family annex in Kaizuka's old temple town, built around 1924, holds a Western room with original fireplace tiles, stained glass, and period lighting.

Completed in 1965 and designed by Kishida Hideto, the Riverside Building is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property standing along the Tosabori River in Nakanoshima, Osaka. Discover this exemplary International Style office building featuring an innovative highway overpass-inspired structure and continuous horizontal ribbon windows.

Built in 1917 by Takeda Goichi, the Phoenix Pavilion of Ryuan-ji stands above the Minoo River in Osaka, echoing the Byodo-in Phoenix Hall on the path to the falls.

Built in 1807 on a forested hilltop in Shimamoto, Osaka, Wakayama Shrine's main hall carries a forward-curving gable rare in the region, registered in 2018.

Behind a grand 1930 main house in Kishiwada, Osaka, this small lime-plastered storehouse reveals careful craft in its carved brackets and wrapped eave cornice.

At the Wada residence in old Kishiwada, an L-shaped wall divides the garden from the front approach. Built in 1930, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.