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The Shotokukan Guardian Shrine in Higashiosaka is a 1939 household shrine called Hachiman-san, a Hachiman-zukuri copy of Usa Jingu's sanctuary on a granite base.
The Shotokukan Storehouse in Higashiosaka joins two 1939 two-story storehouses under formal tiled roofs with a lower link, 13 ken long. Registered in 2000.
The Shotokukan East Wall in Higashiosaka is a 24-meter roofed wall of 1939 along the Nagase River, with exposed posts, a boarded base and a planted strip before it.
The Shotokukan South Wall in Higashiosaka is a 70-meter roofed wall of 1939 that turns at the estate's southeast corner, fronted by a timber fence along a side lane.
The Shotokukan Gate in Higashiosaka is the 1939 front gate of timber merchant Mori Heizo's home, a yakuimon with a gently swelling roof and single-board doors.
The main hall of Shinkoji in Osaka's temple quarter, rebuilt in concrete in 1929, takes an Indian look with a dome, multi-lobed arches and finial-like ornaments.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha North Ema Hall is a 1929 votive pavilion in Osaka, one of an identical pair flanking the main approach just before the arched bridge.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Satsukiden Hall is a 1936 open pavilion in Osaka beside the sacred paddy, used for the June rice-planting rite and set on a formal stone base.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Sacred Horse Stable is a 1931 timber stable in Osaka still housing the shrine's white horse, with stall and groom's room under one roof.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha Nankunsha Main Hall is a tiny 1954 vermilion sanctuary in Osaka set into a sacred camphor tree, the heart of the Hattatsu-san faith.
The Sumiyoshi Taisha South Ema Hall is a 1929 open-sided votive pavilion in Osaka with a mortar floor made to look like stone, paired with the North Ema Hall.
A 1936 reinforced-concrete church in Osaka's Juso, designed by the Vories office to replace one lost to the Muroto Typhoon. Rose window, belfry, free entry.
Antonin Raymond designed this concrete school in Neyagawa, finished in 1932 and registered in 1997. An early Japanese finger plan, with a Spanish colonnade.
Part of the 1928 banquet pavilion for Emperor Showa's enthronement, moved to Suita and now a Jodo Shinshu hall. Black-lacquered coved ceiling, period chandeliers.
A two-storey 1952 storehouse east of the Yamamoto main house in Taishi, Osaka, with board skirting, white plaster and bracketed drip tiles. Registered in 2003.
The Tower of the Sun in Suita, Osaka, Okamoto Taro's theme pavilion for Expo '70, became an Important Cultural Property in 2025; its interior can be visited.
A 41-meter reinforced concrete wall of 1938 enclosing the Nagi Shrine sanctuary, plastered with posts and beams and climbing the slope under specially shaped tiles.
Built in 1940 for the shrine to Kusunoki Masashige, this worship hall raises only its central porch bay under a karahafu gable, with an offering hall set behind.
The 1938 Kasuga-style sanctuary of Nagi Shrine, honoring Kusunoki Masashige: unpainted cypress, broad stairs, a kikusui crest on the ridge, and how to view it.
A townhouse of about 1932 built by a boxwood comb-making family in Kaizuka, Osaka, registered in 2003. A tall plastered front rises over a traditional floor plan.