Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

The former Kamiakizu Elementary School in Tanabe, Wakayama, now Akizuno Garten, is a long timber school of 1953 with an escape route to the hill and fire doors.

The former Kanda family villa, Tosontei, in Kushimoto, Wakayama, is a merchant villa of 1874 finished in cedar said to come from a huge tree washed up on the shore.

The former Kii-Yuasa Station in Yuasa, Wakayama, a timber station of 1927 with a half-hipped roof and gabled porch, conveys pre-war design in a soy-sauce town.

Built in 1934 on the campus of Kokawa High School in Kinokawa City, this 131-square-metre timber wing housed residential home economics practice. Registered 2023.

A 156-metre concrete terrace cut into a hillside at Toin High School, Wakayama, built in 1922 after two national baseball titles and Japan's first imperial ballgame.

A 1929 concrete reading room at Toin High School, Wakayama, given by parents for the school's fiftieth year, with a columned west porch and a crest set in mortar.

This 50-metre stone wall and approach in Shingu City was designed by Nishimura Isaku around 1926: granite porphyry in diagonal coursing, plus an arched well chamber.

Standing in the Tankaku district of Shingu City, Wakayama, the Former Chapman House Main Building is a two-story wooden Western-style residence completed in 1926. It was designed by Shingu native Nishimura Isaku for the American Presbyterian missionary E.N. Chapman, embodying the architect's pioneering 'living-room-centered' home philosophy. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2020, it is now freely open to visitors and pairs beautifully with nearby Kumano Hayatama Taisha and the Shingu Castle Ruins.

A 28-meter Taishō-era net-making workshop in Hirogawa, Wakayama, with many windows and few posts; registered in 2016, it now houses a reservation-only restaurant.

A 36 m² early Shōwa cottage of a Hirogawa net-making family, said to have housed Toda Yasutarō's brother, with a curved roof and fan-rafter eaves; registered 2016.

An early Shōwa guest wing of a Hirogawa net-making family, with two 10-mat rooms in fine cypress and copper-edged eaves; registered in 2016, it is now a guest room.

A tall 1920s townhouse of a Hirogawa net-making family with a plaster-bracketed lattice window; registered in 2016, its front room is now a community space for hire.

An early Shōwa storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, a 5.9 m square with a heavy tiled roof and namako walls; registered 2016, it is now a guest room.

An early Shōwa household storehouse of a Hirogawa net-making family, with namako walls set diagonally on one side and in a grid on the other; registered 2016.

A 1927 reinforced concrete office in Wakayama City with an Ionic portico on a footprint of only 82 square metres, left standing after the 1945 air raid.

The main house of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, built before 1731 and registered in 1998, the oldest townhouse of known date in the prefecture.

A late Edo storehouse of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, registered in 1998, whose white wall faces the old Yamato highway beside the main house and gate.

The guest wing of the former Hashimoto honjin in Wakayama, built around 1803 and registered in 1998, where Tokugawa Shigenori and other lords of Kii stayed.

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.

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