Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Osaka

Built in 1882 as a passage-through worship hall and moved aside around 1940, this small building at Ono Shrine in Sennan now serves as its office. Listed in 2017.

This 18-metre timber fence at Ono Shrine in Sennan divides sanctuary from worship hall. Dating from about 1882, it was listed in 2017 for its role in the precinct.

Built in 1941 by Osaka architect Ikedaya Hisakichi and registered in 2017, this hall at Ono Shrine in Sennan pairs plain boat brackets with an archaic gable truss.

Built in 1839 at the north gate of Kaizuka's temple town in Osaka, this merchant house shows staggered gables and a corner cut away by a later road. Registered 2003.

A twenty-square-metre tatami parlour attached to an Osaka merchant house in Kaizuka's temple town, built to front a storehouse that is now gone. Registered 2003.

A 1935 timber office of a spinning mill in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2007 and now a free museum of the mill and its famous women's volleyball team.

The Kashita Shrine Shinsensho in Izumisano, Osaka, is a tiny 1928 nagare-zukuri shrine facing the main hall, also called the gon-honden, and registered in 2024.

The Kashita Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 tiled hip-and-gable hall with a gabled porch and coffered room, registered in 2024.

The Kashita Shrine Main Hall in Izumisano, Osaka, is a 1915 single-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary rebuilt after a shrine merger, plain in design and registered in 2024.

Katagiri Seiryudo Washing Area is an early Meiji timber shelter roofing the gap between two Kaei storehouses in Sakai, floored with local red brick in herringbone.

Katagiri Seiryudo Main House is a Bunka-era earth-plastered townhouse in Sakai, with a tearoom, altar room and the old shop attached. Registered 2000; closed inside.

Katagiri Seiryudo Middle Storehouse is a tall two-storey storehouse of 12 square metres in Sakai, said to date from the Kaei era; registered in 2000 as a model.

Katagiri Seiryudo West Storehouse was built in Osaka's Nipponbashi in the late Edo period, moved to Sakai in 1873 and now holds a kampo museum. Registered 2000.

Katagiri Seiryudo East Storehouse is a single-storey Kaei-era store on the north edge of a Sakai garden, its brick forecourt running into a Meiji work area.

Katagiri Seiryudo Marishisonten Shrine Sanctuary is a tiny guardian shrine of about 1814 in a Sakai garden, its shelter housing a one-bay nagare-zukuri hall.

Katagiri Seiryudo Brick Wall is a 6.4-metre early Meiji wall in English bond under a small tiled roof, screening a brick-floored work area from a Sakai garden.

The Katashimo Wine Food storehouse in Kashiwara, Osaka, a wine store of the late Taisho period, is an early mix of timber framing with concrete walls and floors.

The presbytery of the Toyonaka Catholic Church in Osaka, a two-storey timber house of 1939, shares the log-built eaves and quiet grounds of the church beside it.

Toyonaka Catholic Church in Osaka, designed by the Czech architect Jan Josef Švagr in 1939, is a timber church with a bell tower and interior in Japanese style.

The oldest storehouse on the Kaname estate in Kaizuka, Osaka: a mid-Edo, 2-storey clay-walled building joined to the kitchen wing, its roof carried on a ridge beam.

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