Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shiga

A late Meiji wall in Hikone linking two storehouses, 3.5 m high and 8.2 m long, with a one-ken doorway, a mokko-shaped window and eaves on timber arms.

The longest of four walls at a Hikone compound: 28 m of early Meiji timber and tile, with boards and white plaster outside and a plain earthen coat inside.

An early Meiji garden wall in Hikone, 9.7 m long: plastered and tiled to the north, a light yamato-bei fence with a wicket door and crossed transom to the south.

A late Meiji wall in Hikone, 3.3 m high and 21 m long, closing the gap between two main houses on the street front and lowering its ridge at the east boundary.

Former Shiga Bank Konan Branch in Koka, Shiga: a 1925 concrete bank on the Soma road with Ionic columns, a heavy entablature and an arched window over the door.

The Former Joki Clinic Stable in Maibara, Shiga, housed the horse a family of doctors used for house calls. Its hanging door has no threshold to trip a horse.

The Former Joki Clinic Main House in Maibara, Shiga, was built in 1904 with a clinic at its south entrance and family rooms behind and upstairs. Registered in 2019.

Built around 1930 for a family of doctors in Maibara, the Former Joki Clinic Shoin has tatami corridors on the garden and transoms carved with a dragon and Mt Fuji.

The Former Joki Clinic West Storehouse in Maibara, Shiga, is a late Meiji plastered storehouse that held rice and grain for a family of doctors. Registered in 2019.

The Former Joki Clinic East Storehouse, built in 1915 in Maibara, Shiga, held a doctor's medical books. Its plaster walls bear the family crest and a relief dragon.

The Former Tada Family Residence Main House in Otsu, Shiga is a mid-Meiji townhouse facing a lane in the old post town, keeping its lattice bay and guard rail.

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this great hall frames its garden through verandas and Taishō glass, and now serves the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

This 1919 plaster storehouse stands at the northwest corner, with a boarded skirt, a separate roof over its core, and a notched eaves band, shaping the post-town street.

Built around 1919 by the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this eight-mat tea room works round bamboo and fine woods into its alcove, and now forms part of the Ōmi Shōnintei.

Built in 1919 for the Ōmi merchant Tanaka family, this two-storey timber house lays out grid-plan rooms open to the garden, and now houses the Ōmi Shōnintei restaurant.

The oldest of the five buildings, this 1892 plaster storehouse carries scrolling motifs and a family crest at its west door and a wave-formed eave on the east gable.

The 1937 main building of the Toyosato school in Shiga, registered in 2013, a symmetrical modernist design by Vories with a central tower, now open to visitors.

The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Storehouse is a late Edo kura in Otsu, older than the 1843 main house, valued for its careful details and charred-board walls.

The Kuzuno Joki Family Residence Main House in Otsu is an 1843 thatched home of the lay leaders of Myooin temple, with a formal shikidai step by its earthen door.

The Kuzuno Joman Family Residence Storehouse is an 1873 kura in Otsu whose gable faces the Myooin temple approach, with tall charred boards below white plaster.