Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

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.

The bell tower of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. A late-Edo tower built wholly of zelkova on a cut-stone base, with carved gable ornaments. Registered 2024.

The ablution pavilion of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Just 5.2 square metres, it has a formal hipped-and-gabled tiled roof and coffered ceiling. Registered 2024.

The treasure house of Jōgan-ji in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Dating from 1913, it has a pyramidal tiled roof topped by a jewel finial and plastered walls. Registered 2024.

The main hall of Jōgan-ji, a True Pure Land temple in Kinokawa, Wakayama. Built in 1784, the tiled timber hall anchors the village skyline; registered in 2024.

Jokiin Kyakuden on Koyasan is an early Meiji guest hall of 361 square metres, keeping an Edo-period plan with a raised dais room. Registered 13 March 2025.

Jokiin Sanmon on Koyasan is a four-legged gate of about 1955 in cypress, with deliberately archaic carving. Free to view from the street. Registered 2025.

Jokiin Haiden on Koyasan, a hall of about 1910 moved from another temple to face a war memorial tower, carries curved gables front and rear. Registered 2025.

Jokiin Hondo on Koyasan is a late Edo main hall built as a plastered fireproof storehouse, with an attached goma ritual wing to the north. Registered 2025.

A 1920 detached guest room moved from Hashimoto to a Wakayama City temple in 2013, registered in 2017 for the quality of its two-tiered alcove and shoin joinery.

Shonenji Temple Gate stands on the west side of a temple precinct in Kada, Wakayama City. This small late-Edo four-legged gate is framed entirely in zelkova.

Shonenji Main Hall in Kada, Wakayama City, is a seven-bay Pure Land hall built in 1795 in the castle town of Wakayama and moved here in 1907. Registered in 2017.

Registered in 2006, this late Edo priests' residence in Hashimoto keeps an archaic oshiita alcove, a hint that Koyasan monks used it as a lowland winter retreat.

Suhara Kakubei Yashiki Shuoku in Yuasa, Wakayama, ridge-tablet dated to 1797 and registered in 2004, housed merchants whose fishing grounds reached Sakhalin.

The Suhara Kakubei storehouse in Yuasa, Wakayama, is a late-Edo two-storey dozo of 40 square metres, white-plastered with an iron skirt, registered in 2004.

This 42-metre earthen wall edges the Suhara Kakubei Residence in Yuasa, Wakayama, marking where a vanished front gate stood in a late-Edo merchant compound.

A 1920s bracket-armed gate and 20-meter plastered wall at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: finely paired rafters, a transom of odd natural timber and straight-edged tiles.

A small 1920s service building in Gobo, Wakayama: a tiled bath with a goemon-buro iron tub, a maid's room and a pickle store under one roof, facing the north street.

The oldest building of a Gobo, Wakayama estate: an 1842 earthen-walled rice store that held tenant rice for a family of regional headmen, moved intact in the 1920s.

A single-storey guest wing in Gobo, Wakayama, with its own entrance and kitchen, cypress rooms of 12.5 and 10 mats, a fan-carved transom and a tea room of 1959-60.