Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

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.

Sosuikan on Mount Komaki in Komaki, Aichi, a reception house of the Owari Tokugawa family built in 1888 and moved here in 1949, is now opened by the city.

Sozanso in Tokugawaen, Nagoya, built in 1937 as the Japanese guest house of an exposition to promote Kiso timber and moved here later, is rich in hinoki and sawara.

A two-story earthen storehouse of the early Taisho era behind a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with white plaster walls and black doors, registered in 2004.

A sake merchant's townhouse of 1913 on Honmachi Street in Inuyama, with a lattice front and a plastered upper story, registered as a cultural property in 2004.

A tea room of the early Taisho era in the back garden of a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with polished log posts and lath windows, registered in 2004.

The auditorium of Taki Gakuen in Konan, Aichi, built in 1933, is an almost plain concrete hall whose framed doorways and pediment-like gable give it a symbolic form.

The library of Taki Gakuen in Konan, Aichi, a prewar library of 1933 under an upper floor of 1965, shows post-war modernism in its louvres and bright reading room.

The main building of Taki Gakuen in Konan, Aichi, built in 1926, is a long concrete school whose pedimented entrance and clock tower have become a local landmark.

Built in 1814 as a hatamoto's headquarters and moved to Suzawa in 1869, the Takigawa Family Residence Main House is a rare surviving jinya, registered in 2005.

Raised in 1763, half a century before the main house arrived, the Takigawa Family Residence Nagayamon Gate keeps its barred window and studded camphor doors.

Just 0.1 square metres, the Takigawa Family Residence Hokora Shrine has its base, niche and roof each cut from a single stone. Dated to 1525, registered in 2005.

Taki Shrine's 1672 main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a one-bay structure of just 2.4 square metres, registered in 2013 and set within a protective covering hall.

A mid-Meiji earthen kura in Inuyama's old castle town, the Takino Family Storehouse shows namako-kabe walls and heavy earthen fire doors, registered in 2004.

Tanahashi Family Residence Main House in Arimatsu, Nagoya, was built in 1875 for the Oigeta Hattori shibori wholesalers. Ridge plaque, plastered front, 2009 listing.

Ishuntei is the 1934 sukiya main house of Nagoya businessman Furukawa Tamesaburo, projecting over its garden on posts. Registered in 2018, it is open to visitors.

A small Nagoya gate of knotted logs and earthen walls, with flower-tracery doors. Registered in 2018, it opens collector Furukawa Tamesaburo's former sukiya home.

A tiny cedar-bark privy in a Nagoya tea garden, built never to be used. This decorative sand privy is one of six structures registered as cultural property in 2018.

In a Nagoya garden, the small tea house Chisokuan reworks the National Treasure tea room Joan, adding a trapezoidal alcove and a low host's-seat ceiling.