Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

A tall four-legged gate of the mid-Edo period stands before the Important Cultural Property main hall of Risho-Gokoku-ji, the temple locals call the Great Temple.

Cut from local rhyolite in the late Edo period, these steps and wall hold Ryogon-ji to its mountainside and frame the main hall. A Registered Cultural Property.

Built in 1857, this Rinzai Zen main hall stands plain on a stone terrace above Ono hamlet, without canopy or brackets, its strength lying in sturdy joinery.

The Wakayama architects' association built this compact 1966 modernist office for itself, with tiled facades, a floating upper wall, and hidden rainwater pipes.

Completed in 1938 and modeled on the National Diet Building, Wakayama's prefectural hall survived the wartime bombing and still serves as the seat of government.

A 52-meter timber inspection shed at Idakiso Station, framed with king-post trusses of rough logs and two sunken floor pits. Built in 1916 and still in service; registered in 2014.

A 43-meter stone platform from 1916 and an early-Showa steel shelter whose posts are reused railway rails, finished with a dentil cornice. Registered together in 2014.

A 36-meter steel five-span girder bridge built in 1933 to carry the line across Oike pond, using seven-meter I-beams unusual for the period. Registered in 2014.

The longest bridge on the Kishigawa Line at 51 meters across seven spans, built over Oike pond in 1933, with cylindrical concrete piers and dry-stone wing walls. Registered in 2014.

A 14-meter steel two-span girder bridge about 3 km west of Idakiso, its girders staggered to cross an irrigation canal at a sharp skew. Built in 1916, the oldest of the line three registered bridges.

Built in 1926 by a local Koyasan carpenter, this private wooden house is a registered cultural property in a World Heritage landscape, but it is closed to visitors.

Wagoan Storehouse at Koyasan is a two-storey earthen-walled store of about 1926, registered in 2008. Just 22 square metres, roofed in copper shaped as pantiles.

Wagoan Wall runs 7.4 metres along a Koyasan lane, clad in flattened bamboo outside and woven cedar bark within. Registered as a Cultural Property in 2008.

Wagoan Gate at Koyasan is a bracket-arm gate of about 1926 with a 1.5-metre opening, knotty log posts and paired rafters under a hipped roof. Registered in 2008.

A late Meiji guest wing on the Kii-ji route below Shishigase Pass in Hidaka, Wakayama, with four rooms in ta-no-ji plan, tsuga columns and original glass screens.

A merchant house of 1903 on Wakaura Meiko-dori, Wakayama City: convex tiled roof, projecting lattice screens, black lime-plaster upper storey. Registered 2007.

A plastered storehouse of about 1905 behind the Wada merchant house in Wakayama City, its lime walls skirted with boarding against Wakaura salt air. Registered 2007.

A wall of about 1905 running 46 metres along a Wakayama City street, stacking local blue-grey schist with roof tiles and earth in varied courses. Registered 2007.

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