Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Yamaguchi

The Nakano Family Residence Shop and Main House in Nagato is a mid-Meiji draper's townhouse with a long frontage on the old road and an open well lined with shelves.

The Nakano Family Residence Storehouse in Shimonoseki is a small two-storey Taisho-era storehouse with a gabled tile roof, the white accent of a thatched farmstead.

The Nakano Family Residence Barn in Shimonoseki is a mid-Edo outbuilding nine bays long, with a central cattle stall and deep eaves on scroll-carved brackets.

The Nakano Family Residence Annex in Nagato is a late Taisho guest wing with a three-storey clapboard lookout tower added around 1929 and a fan-shaped ceiling.

The Nakano Family Residence Wall in Shimonoseki is a Meiji tiled earthen wall 8.3 metres long on a dressed-stone footing, dividing the forecourt from the garden.

The Nakano Family Residence Gate and Wall in Nagato is a late Taisho yakuimon gate with a 36-metre tiled wall on a stone base, lining a side lane of the compound.

Wooden Western-style village office of 1928 in Ube, Yamaguchi, with the assembly hall upstairs, a rare survivor in the prefecture, now a sake brewery's office.

Memorial hall of 1937 in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, built beside the site of the 1895 peace talks in the Imperial Crown style; it displays the conference chairs.

A 1938 timber church above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki, registered in 2004, with a Spanish-style front of white walls, red tiles and a tower, still in use.

Timber Western-style station of 1925 in Hagi, Yamaguchi, with a porch, restored in 1998; now a free museum on Hagi and the railway pioneer Inoue Masaru.

Brick office of 1926, the Shimonoseki branch of Toyo Whaling on a headland over the Kanmon Strait, with geometric capitals; it recalls the city's whaling past.

Concrete house of 1936 built for Michael Ringer above the Kanmon Strait in Shimonoseki; a plain white modernist design, now a museum of the tenor Fujiwara Yoshie.

The halls of Hofu Tenmangu in Yamaguchi, built in 1958, join a main hall and worship hall by an offering hall in a delicate and elegant modern shrine design.

The old office of Mutsumi village in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1895, is a gable-fronted timber hall with a hip-and-gable porch, a rare Meiji village office.

The storehouse of the old Mutsumi village office in Hagi, Yamaguchi, built in 1896, keeps its plastered walls and Sekishu tiles together with the office in front.

The main building of the old Meirin school in Hagi, a timber school of 1935 on the site of the domain school, is now open free as part of the Hagi Meirin Gakusha.

The Momoyama Water Metering Room in Ube, Yamaguchi, a small octagonal brick house of 1924, is known locally as the hexagon hall and once wore a pyramid roof.

Lodgings for male staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with an inward-facing entry, two small tatami rooms, and three hooded windows on its outer east wall.

A small lodging for female staff built about 1931 on a Hofu estate, with two tatami rooms and a board-clad back wall that doubles as the boundary along the street.

A two-storey plastered storehouse of about 1931 anchoring the street front of a Hofu estate, with a plaster band under the eaves and copper-clad window doors.

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