Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Wakayama

A 1920s two-storey house in Gobo, Wakayama, designed by an Osaka firm: a double-height earthen passage, an intact kitchen, and a parquet Western room upstairs.

A 1920s earthen storehouse at the corner of a Gobo, Wakayama estate, with moulded window brackets, a lean-to over its door and roof timbers planed even in the attic.

The smallest of seven registered buildings at a Gobo, Wakayama estate: a 13-square-meter earthen storehouse with full tiling, a plaster eaves band and raking beams.

A gently curving 20-metre cut-stone wall of the early Showa years, laid in 4 courses with plum-crest motifs, edging a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.

A 1937 gate, 3 bays and 4.0 m wide, roofed in cedar bark, framing the front of a shrine family's homestead in rural Wakayama. Registered 2013; seen from the lane.

A small Taisho-era yakuimon gate with earthen side walls, used only when the village shrine next door holds its festival: a link between house and shrine.

A thatched farmhouse of about 1850 in the Wakayama hills, with a staggered four-room plan and a large shrine-family altar. Registered 2013; view from outside.

A two-storey Meiji-era storehouse with a floating tiled roof, white plaster walls and a timber-clad base on a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama. Registered 2013.

A Taisho-era reception wing beside a thatched farmhouse in the Wakayama hills; its main room has an alcove, staggered shelves and a writing bay. Registered 2013.

A 1937 roofed wall, 22 metres in all, of black plaster with crisp white edging above vertical boarding, flanking the gate of a shrine family's homestead in Wakayama.

A single-storey late Edo townhouse facing Shinmachi-dori in Gobo, with a projecting lattice west of the door and Western clapboard to the east. Registered in 2024.

A long late Edo wall enclosing the east side of the Sono estate in Gobo: an L-shaped range with a pickling room and open work area inside. Registered in 2024.

A two-storey late Edo storehouse on the north side of the Sono estate in Gobo, used for serving trays and paired with the east storehouse. Registered in 2024.

A small two-storey late Edo storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, Wakayama, built for hina dolls, with lime-plastered walls and a boarded base. Registered in 2024.

A two-storey timber annex of about 1953 on the Sono estate in Gobo, with pantiled roof and board walls; its upstairs window looks to the river. Registered in 2024.

The largest storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo: a late Edo two-storey store for household goods, plastered to the eaves, with a tiled lean-to. Registered 2024.

A two-storey Taisho-era storehouse on the Sono estate in Gobo, used for dishes, with a gable-end entrance and a mortar base unlike the Edo stores. Registered 2024.

The Taiji fisheries cooperative office near Taiji harbour, Wakayama, a timber building of 1918, has an unusual exterior with its woodwork painted pale pink.

Rebuilt in 1953, the Entrance Building of the former Tajima lacquer refinery in Kainan pairs a washed-mortar base and yellow render with an exposed steel truss.

Built in 1922 to hold finished lacquer, this mortar-rendered brick storehouse in Kainan has corner piers and a top band, and lost its upper floor in a 1953 refit.