Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

This early Showa wooden wing at the former Tajima lacquer works in Kainan holds 2 dining rooms, a kitchen and a bath beside an earthen passage to the workshop.

Built in 1934, this 2-story clay-walled kura in Kainan kept costly raw lacquer safe from summer spoilage, with high iron-shuttered windows and a king post truss.

Raised in 1927, this brick hall in Kainan is where refined lacquer was packed into barrels; in 1958 its termite-hit sawtooth roof became riveted steel trusses.

Set in Kitayama, Japan's only municipal exclave, the 1847 main hall of Tōkō-ji combines a hōjō sanctuary and kuri wing under plank-clad gables called gangi.

On Okinoshima above the Kitan Strait, an 1872 stone lighthouse by British engineer Richard Henry Brunton. One of Japan's earliest Western-style beacons, still in service.

The 1887 main house of the Nakasuji branch family in Wasa, Wakayama: a 205 sq m single-storey home prized for deep beams and a cherry-wood veranda. Registered 1998.

A gatehouse of about 1887 facing the road on the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with a lower store attached; plaster and clapboard run unbroken.

A Taisho-era earthen storehouse on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, with an okiyane roof and a boarded base matching its neighbour.

A Taisho-era building on the north side of the Nakasuji estate in Wasa, Wakayama City, joining two tatami guest rooms to a store for tableware. Registered in 1998.

An 1887 service building with toilet, bath and store north of the Nakasuji gatehouse in Wasa, Wakayama City, its roof set just below the store's. Registered 1998.

A Taisho-era gate-house at the Nagatake farmstead in Wakayama: a 23-metre tiled range with black-plaster walls and a thin white line. Private; seen from the lane.

A south-facing early Meiji farmhouse in Nanayama, Kainan, once thatched and now tiled: a timber single-storey house with a doma and a four-room plan. Private home.

At 867 metres, this 1928 timber station is Koyasan's rail gateway: early-Showa round windows under a pyramidal roof topped by a sacred jewel, restored in 2015.

Designed by polymath Nishimura Isaku and built in 1925, this small wooden church in southern Wakayama has a steep roof, a tall porch, and an exposed timber truss.

The Hashimoto Church Former Chapel in Wakayama, registered in 2005, is a Meiji farmhouse moved from Yoshino in 1900 whose earthen floor became the chapel.

A 1921 timber police building on Mount Koya, Wakayama, registered in 2005, blending temple details such as a dormer gable and frog-leg struts with Western windows.

The Hashimoto rice office in Gobo is a small Western-style timber building on the old Kumano Kaido, where a landowning house counted its tenant rice. Registered 2020.

The Hashimoto new drawing room in Gobo is a small two-story timber reception house, said to have been built for a bride's arrival around 1912. Registered 2020.

The Hashimoto earthen wall in Gobo runs about twenty meters along the old Kumano Kaido, with a flared stone base and a washed-mortar face under pantile. Registered 2020.

Built around 1929 by a Kishu lacquerware dealer, this two-story house in black lime plaster stands in Kainan's Funao district near the Kuroe lacquer town. Registered 2019.