Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tottori

The Tokoen Main Building 'Tendai' at Kaike Onsen in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, is the crowning achievement of Metabolism architecture, designed by architect Kikutake Kiyonori in 1964. Featuring the world's only 'double pilotis' structure with guest rooms suspended from six main columns, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017. With seven gardens by sculptor Nagare Masayuki and skin-beautifying alkaline hot springs, this living cultural property offers a one-of-a-kind overnight architectural experience.

Built around 1916 in Kurayoshi, Tottori, this tea garden arbor covers only 1.9 square metres, with cedar-bark sheathing, a tiled wall and a bamboo sleeve fence.

Completed in 1934 at Misasa Onsen in Tottori, this 69-metre concrete bridge copies timber design: giboshi finials, Kasuga lanterns and plank-like deck joints.

An early Showa structure on high ground above Itaibara hamlet in Chizu, Tottori: a plain gabled worship hall, and a raised open frame sheltering the 1873 sanctuary.

Built in 1873 at Itaibara hamlet in Chizu, Tottori, this three-square-metre sanctuary carries bracket sets, frog-leg struts and lion-nose carving. Registered 2006.

Built in 1913 at Yokota in Kurayoshi, Tottori, this 276-square-metre house pairs a six-room farmhouse plan with a winding stair and truss roof. Interior closed.

Dated 1854 by its ridge tablet, the Yatagai House Main Building in Hoki Town, Tottori, is a 204-square-metre farmhouse, core of an estate registered in 2011.

Kanpu-an, the Yatagai House Tea House in Hoki Town, Tottori, sets a two-mat room and a four-and-a-half-mat room either side of a narrow mizuya. Registered in 2011.

The Yonago Senmon Daiten in Doshomachi, Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed around 1924. Designed by Hara Yasokichi as the city's first rental commercial building, this three-story reinforced concrete landmark features a stone-style facade, an arched entrance, and the original Yonago Bank emblem, telling the story of Sanin's commercial heyday.

Discover Ryokan Ohashi, a 1932 wooden inn in Tottori's Misasa Onsen designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Experience masterful shrine-carpenter architecture, naturally gushing hot springs, and exquisite kaiseki cuisine.

Built in 1932 along the rural Wakasa Line in eastern Tottori Prefecture, the Abe Station Platform is a 72-meter concrete structure with granite walls stacked in three layers and a distinctive glass-walled waiting room. Designated a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2008, it remains in active use today and is also celebrated as a filming location for the beloved 'Otoko wa Tsurai yo' (Tora-san) film series.

Discover Inaba-Funaoka Station on the Wakasa Railway in Tottori Prefecture—a 1929 wooden station building and granite platform registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Explore its Showa-era charm, nearby cherry blossom sites, and tips for visiting this hidden gem along one of Japan's most scenic heritage railway lines.

Tucked into a quiet valley in Yazu Town, Tottori, the platform of Wakasa Railway's Hatto Station is a beautifully preserved stone-built structure dating from the 1930 opening of the Wakasa Line. With its trackside masonry wall, gentle ramp connection to the wooden station house, and a charming glass-walled waiting shelter added at center in 1954, it offers visitors an authentic encounter with early-Showa rural railway architecture. Designated a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008 as part of Japan's first-ever block registration of 23 facilities along an entire railway line, the platform invites travelers to step into a slower, gentler era of country rail travel.