Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

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.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Detached Room of 1903 is a six-mat guest room with a tokonoma, reached by a covered passage. Now registered.

In Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Bath and Privy of 1912 is a rare surviving service block, with five privies south and a bath north. Now registered.

A single-bay yakuimon in Iwade, Wakayama, the Fukuda Family Residence Gate was rebuilt in 1950 from timber salvaged when the older gate burned. Now registered.

Built in 1876 above the Kishigawa at Okinono in Kainan, Wakayama, Honenji Main Hall is a five-bay Jodo-shu hall registered in 2024 for its dragon carvings.

Completed in 1927 at Hirai in Kozagawa, Wakayama, this H-plan timber building was drawn in Sapporo for Hokkaido University's only forest outside Hokkaido.

At Horikawaya Nomura in Gobo, Wakayama, this workshop presses soy sauce mash and heats it over a wood fire. Its brick chimney marks a brewery registered in 2014.

The First Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo store where soy sauce mash matures. Koji mould clings even to the timber here. Registered in 2014.

The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.

The Shop and Main House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo townhouse on Gobo's Shinmachi street, its timber stained red with bengara. It alone is open to visitors.

The storehouse at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo, two-storey dozo near the brewery's heart, its thick walls guarding tools from fire and damp. Registered in 2014.

The Matabei Residence Main House is a late-Edo townhouse in Gobo's temple town, its eaves bearing a local fascia, odare. It frames the lane behind the Betsuin.

The Matabei Residence Storehouse, built around 1930 north of the main house, stands on a granite foundation with a plank-and-plaster west face. Registered in 2014.

The thatched kuri of Horikoshi Shaku Kannon in Katsuragi Town, Wakayama, is a late-Edo building laid out like a farmhouse at a Katsuragi Shugen practice site.

A late Edo townhouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, on the old Yamato Kaido. Plaster runs to the eaves, a low tsushi-nikai storey, an earthen naka-doma. Registered 2004.

A 1916 guest wing in Hashimoto, Wakayama, with a shikidai entrance and a formal shoin room. Moved whole by hikiya in 1955 when the road widened. Exterior views only.

A late Edo storehouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, roofed in heavy hongawara tile and split inside between utensils, rice and clothing. Registered in 2004.

The Misoya Bekkan Upper Storehouse and Detached Guest Room in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in the mid-Meiji period. Standing on the grounds of Misoya Kimono Shop, founded in 1495, this distinctive single-structure building combines a fireproof storehouse with a formal reception room, preserving the refined merchant culture of a historic post town on the pilgrimage route to Mount Koya.

The Misoya Bekkan Shimogura in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a traditional Japanese earthen storehouse built in 1808 during the late Edo period. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this rare surviving merchant-family kura stands at the heart of the former post town that prospered along the pilgrimage route to Mt. Koya, offering visitors a quiet glimpse of two centuries of Japanese commercial heritage.

Wakayama’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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