Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The Suzuki Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Aisai City, a middle Meiji earthen store for the family's reclaimed paddy, has held a century-old Steinway since 2023.

In Showa Ward, Nagoya, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House pairs a central-corridor plan with a Western wing, showing how prewar Nagoya built its new suburbs.

Built in 1890 at Saya in Aisai City, the Suzuki Family Residence Main House holds a formal principal room, a temple-like altar room and a sukiya tea room.

Early Showa granite gate posts and a 77-metre concrete wall cut to imitate edo-giri masonry are the only part of the Aisai Suzuki estate visible from the street.

Sumi Kaikan in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture, is the only building designed by world-renowned architect Kenzo Tange in the entire prefecture. Completed in 1957, it features signature elements of Tange's early work including double-beam girders and exposed concrete. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008, it now serves as a community center open for free architectural tours.

Discover the Seto Eisen Church Chapel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1900 in Seto City, Aichi. This charming wooden chapel blends Western and Japanese architectural techniques and remains an active place of worship today.

A late Edo reception wing at Zengyoji in Nagoya, registered in 2018. Its shikidai porch, lattice gable and cusped windows mark a temple that received guests of rank.

Zengyoji Temple Main Gate in Nagoya is a four-legged gate of 1755, dated by a surviving ridge tablet naming its carpenter. Stacked arched beams; registered in 2018.

Built around 1896 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Bell Tower packs Zen-style bracketing and fan rafters into 7.6 square metres on a rough stone base. Registered 2018.

Late Edo in date, Zengyoji Temple Drum Tower carries a pyramidal turret off-centre on a gabled roof and began life as a storehouse below. Registered in 2018.

The smallest of six registered buildings at Zengyoji in Nagoya, this pavilion shelters a stone basin inscribed 1743, older than its Showa roof by two centuries.

Built in 1706 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Main Hall omits the columns of its outer worship area beneath a latticed coffered ceiling. Registered in 2018.

Built in 1689, Sennenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Inuyama, Aichi, is a 21-meter gable-entry kuri with formal rooms west, family rooms east. Registered 2007.

Sennenji Temple Main Hall in Inuyama, Aichi, was built in 1673. Its Jodo-sect plan of veranda, outer and inner sanctuaries survives, and it was registered in 2007.

Zenryuji Temple Entrance Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, was built in 1898. Three rooms in a row, a curved gable at the centre, one coffered ceiling for the formal room.

Zenryuji Temple Main Gate in Okazaki, Aichi, is an early Meiji koraimon. It spans 3.2 metres, with a low roofline and copper-faced doors below a heavy lattice.

Zenryuji Temple Shichimen Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, is a late Edo hall to the deity Shichimen. Narrow and deep, it carries bracketed, polychrome work at the sanctuary.

Zenryuji Temple Main Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, dates from 1734. This 184-square-metre Nichiren hall holds a Zen-style altar platform, and was registered in 2015.

Sogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nagoya, built in 1866 by master carpenter Ito Heizaemon VIII, has a columnless outer sanctuary and full coffered ceiling. Visiting tips.

Standing on the mid-slope of historic Mount Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, Sōsuikan is a refined single-story wooden zashiki hall built in 1888 as a guest reception facility and later owned by the Owari Tokugawa family. Restored to its original 1888 appearance in 2022 and registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025, the hipped-roof, tile-roofed building with its formal shikidai entrance offers visitors a graceful encounter with Meiji-era hospitality architecture.