Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

Discover the Former Chapel of Nippon Sei Ko Kai Hashimoto Christ Church in Wakayama Prefecture, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property where an early Meiji-era farmhouse from Yoshino was transformed into an Anglican chapel. Explore this rare fusion of Japanese vernacular architecture and Christian heritage near the gateway to Mount Koya.

Discover the Hashimoto Police Station Koya Executive Police Box, a unique Taisho-era wooden police building designed with Buddhist temple motifs, registered as a national tangible cultural property, located in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage site Mount Koya, Wakayama.

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.

A 26-meter concrete wall and set-back gate in washed-out mortar enclose the garden of the 1929 Hatada residence in Kainan, a modern corner-lot estate. Registered 2019.

Hatsuzakura's later-Meiji igura adjoins its brewing hall, the two forming a long wall that preserves the streetscape of Katsuragi's once-thriving sake trade.

Hatsuzakura's early-Meiji shikomi-gura runs sixteen bays north to south, the oldest and largest of its halls and still the working heart of a brewing town.

Hatsuzakura's early-Taishō main house, in Katsuragi's last sake brewery, is a six-bay machiya whose upstairs rooms now host tastings of Kōyasan Hannyatō sake.

Dated to 1721 by its ridge tablet, the Hibuse Clinic main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama still fronts a working clinic and is a registered benchmark machiya.

Built in the late Taishō era, the Hibuse Clinic hospital wing in Hashimoto stands on a floor raised about 1.3 m against the Kinokawa floods, a clapboard town landmark.

Dated to 1856, the Hiramatsu main house in Kawabe, Wakayama is a village headman's farmhouse with a projecting formal entrance and a fine shoin reception room.

In Kawabe, Wakayama, the Hiramatsu long-house gate spans 18.7 m, with single-plank zelkova doors and barred windows under a tiled roof, built in the late Edo period.

In a mountain hamlet of Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence is fronted by a castle-like stone wall four metres high, with 154 m of ramparts in all.

In Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence inner wall is black-plastered on the approach side and white on the garden side, an early Shōwa Registered Cultural Property.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Main Gate is a single-bay udegimon of about 1909, standing atop a castle-like stone wall. Now registered.

In Iwade, Wakayama, the mid-Meiji Fukuda Family Residence Earthen Wall runs about 41.5 m over precise stone footings with a washed-aggregate face. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Barn of 1878 is the estate's oldest building, a part-two-story timber structure with lean-to eaves. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence West Gate of about 1913 is a small udegimon, its transom carved with bamboo and chrysanthemum. Now registered.