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Built in 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, this 101-square-metre entrance block sets a dormer gable over its carriage porch. Registered in 1998; exterior viewable.
This twelve-square-metre covered stair at Omi Jingu, built in 1944, is the only corridor there given a fire door and a tile-capped fire wall. Registered 1998.
A 1944 rest house at Omi Jingu in Otsu, framed with round posts and bracket arms under a tiled roof. Now a sweets shop, it is the one visitors may enter.
The east and south wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 246 square metres. A curved gable marks the guest entrance, a lower ridge the everyday door.
The tiled north and west wings of the 1940 shrine office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 175 square metres. A dormer gable on the west face vents steam from the bath below.
A 1944 watch house of 39 square metres at Omi Jingu, made by closing one bay of the outer colonnade. Small gable-end eaves separate it from its twin across the gate.
The smallest registered building at Omi Jingu: an eight-square-metre raised-floor storehouse of 1940, roofed in cypress bark like the sanctuary it stands behind.
The 1940 hall at Omi Jingu in Otsu where food offerings are prepared, 53 square metres, with entrances north and south so the work can flow in one direction.
A nine-square-metre covered stair of 1944 at Omi Jingu in Otsu, gabled where it meets buildings and single-sloped over the steps between them. Registered in 1998.
The 1944 amulet office at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 39 square metres, attached to the tower gate. Square and round posts are used by position, with boat brackets above.
A 36-metre slatted fence of 1940 enclosing the innermost court at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Its diagonal braces are reinforced concrete and date from the original build.
A 36-metre slatted fence of 1940 at Omi Jingu in Otsu. From the fifth bay westward its small roof steps up one level to follow the fall of the sloping ground.
The south arm of the 1944 outer colonnade at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Once as long as the north arm, only three bays survive, yet the outer court still depends on them.
The full-length north arm of the 1944 outer colonnade at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 60 square metres. Round posts carry an open roof above a raised and railed veranda.
A five-bay roofed lattice fence of 1944 running to the north gate at Omi Jingu in Otsu. Square posts on a sill carry balance-arm brackets under a copper roof.
An eight-metre roofed lattice fence of 1944 at Omi Jingu. Its vermilion and white finish marks where the second building campaign meets the bare timber of the first.
The 1940 outer worship hall at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 157 square metres, where visitors pray. A stone stair is driven through its central bay beneath a curved gable.
The 1944 first torii at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 7.3 metres wide. A textbook myojin gate with curved upper members, inward-leaning round posts and a squared tie beam.
The 1940 second torii at Omi Jingu in Otsu, 6.4 metres wide, standing at the head of the approach steps. Visitors turn right here for the tower gate above.
Omi Shrine Middle Gate opens the innermost enclosure at the top of the stairway corridor. At 7 square metres it is the smallest of the shrine's 40 properties.