Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

Discover the Former Hashimoto Honjin Ikenaga Family Residence, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Hashimoto, Wakayama. This early 18th-century machiya once served as an official inn for feudal lords on the road to Koya-san.

Discover the historic storehouse of the Former Hashimoto Honjin Ikenaga Family Residence, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hashimoto City, Wakayama. This late Edo-period dozo preserves the heritage of a post town that thrived at the crossroads of the Ise Highway and the Koya pilgrimage route.

The detached drawing room of the former Hashimoto Honjin Ikenaga Residence in Hashimoto City, Wakayama Prefecture, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built around 1803. Once a guest room where Kishū Domain lord Tokugawa Shigenori stayed, this Edo-period honjin overlooks the Kinokawa River and preserves the heritage of a historic post town on the gateway to Mount Kōya.

A reinforced-concrete gate on the estate's southern edge, west of the bath building, where two piers carry a segmental arch and keystone in pared-down Western style.

The estate's main entrance, a nagaya-mon of 1925, sets a room in its north bays against a tiled passage in the south, fronted by a long approach with a stone lion.

A two-story earthen storehouse in the northwest corner, pairing plastered walls with a Western king-post truss and lane-side boarding. Now used as a dining room.

A brick, two-story water tower north of the main house, with sash windows, a cornice and white tile banding, its modern utility shown openly among timber buildings.

Built in 1920 by speculator Matsui Isuke, this timber main house links three blocks around its garden, known for a Yakusugi-cedar ceiling. Now a restaurant.

A 91-meter earthen wall folding along the estate's south and west faces, tinted reddish with bengara over a sandstone skirt and a local blue-stone foundation.

The smallest registered building here, a privy southeast of the tea house, its yellow plaster walls set with differently shaped windows under cypress-bark eaves.

A compact earthen storehouse south of the north store, dated 1919, the earliest registered here, with plastered walls and a truss roof beside its larger neighbor.

A brick bath building at the southeast of the grounds, with a reinforced-concrete flat roof, parapet, cornice and geometric facade. Modern style in a private corner.

Discover the Kōdai-in Tahōtō, a finely crafted Taisho-era two-storied pagoda at one of Koyasan's most prestigious imperial temples. Learn about its royal heritage, exquisite architectural details, and the serene garden setting of this Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Kōno Amida-dō is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1686, nestled in the mountain hamlet of Kōno in Katsuragi Town, Wakayama Prefecture. This thatched-roof Buddhist hall preserves centuries-old ink inscriptions by Shugendō ascetics and is a component of the Japan Heritage site Katsuragi Shugen.

Koyasan University Library, located on the sacred Mount Koya in Wakayama Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan designed by the celebrated architect Takeda Goichi and completed in 1929. As the first Western-style building on Koyasan, this reinforced concrete structure features a stunning double-height reading room and a five-story book stack, housing approximately 300,000 volumes of Buddhist texts including three nationally designated Important Cultural Properties.

Built in 1926 by Amerika-ya, Japan's first house-building firm, this Wakayama home sets bay windows and arch-headed openings against Japanese ground-floor rooms.

A 55-metre reinforced concrete boundary of 1926, faced with split andesite below and cast stone tile above, registered for its part in Wakayama's streetscape.

Built in 1933 for Koyasan's eleven hundredth Kobo Daishi memorial, this bead merchant's shop carries a temple-style karahafu gable and still trades daily as a shop.

The kuri of Jōgan-ji, west of the main hall in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo priest's residence with a karahafu porch and a raised upper room. Registered in 2024.

The temple gate of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo yakuimon with carved beams and brackets, marking the precinct edge on the street. Registered in 2024.