Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

Built in 1935 and registered in 1997 on the same day as the Main Building it adjoins, this concrete store keeps its collection behind walls with almost no openings.

Built in 1883 and registered in 2014, this Nagoya tea building sets upper, middle and lower rooms at stepped floor levels, with a shelter for a guest's attendants.

Registered in 2014, this waiting shelter of 7.5 square meters carries a fan of bark-on poles overhead, a copper pyramid above, and one bench along its east side.

Built in 1934 behind the main hall of Tokujuji in Inuyama, Aichi, this registered hall holds memorial tablets at one end and the founder's hall at the other.

Tokujuji Temple Entrance in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1934, measures only 10 square meters, yet nearly all the carving at this Zen temple gathers on its front.

Tokujuji Temple Main Gate in Inuyama, Aichi, is an early Edo yakuimon with red-painted timbers. City records place the southern limit of the castle town right here.

Built in 1934, Tokujuji Temple Bell Tower in Inuyama, Aichi, is one bay square, yet it uses two-stepped bracketing twice and a finely coffered ceiling.

A Rinzai Zen main hall in Inuyama's castle town, rebuilt in 1896 after the Nobi earthquake. Its outer sanctuary omits the dividing columns, opening one wide space.

Two joined storehouses of 1876 behind the Tomita deputy's house in Okazaki, Aichi, black-boarded below and plastered above. Registered 2020; documents on view.

Built in 1827 for the deputy of the Motojuku jin'ya in Okazaki, Aichi, Mokunansha works samurai timbers into a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2020, now a restaurant.

Built in 1922 for Aichi's silkworm egg inspectors, this Toyota City office grafts chidori gables and daito blocks onto an early reinforced concrete frame.

A granite gate of 1922 on a Toyota City street, its posts ribbed at base and capital beneath a pantiled timber roof, registered in 2000 for its townscape.

The former special-classroom wing of Fujioka Junior High in Toyota, Aichi, built 1954 and listed 2017. Its king post truss, weatherboarding, and 2025 closure.

Built in the late 1920s for repeaters on Japan's first Tokyo-Kobe long-distance cable, this pilastered concrete building in Toyokawa, Aichi, was registered in 2007.

An outbuilding of the former Toyokawa relay station in Aichi, this 38-square-metre concrete box rounds every corner, a soft mass set against the sharp main block.

Toyohashi Public Hall in Aichi, completed in 1931 to Nakamura Yoshihei's design, listed 1998. Corinthian loggia, hemispherical domes, eagles, and visiting notes.

This small 1928 concrete bridge once carried Toyohashi's drinking water across the Ōe River, its sphere-topped posts and rounded parapet adding rare polish.

Five concrete slow sand filter basins from 1929 still treat Toyohashi's water at the active Kotakano plant, a rare survival of gentle biological filtration.

This 1929 pump room at the Kotakano plant looks like solid masonry, with crisp geometric ornament around its windows. It still runs, dosing chemicals since 1981.

At the head of Toyohashi's first water system, this 1929 pump room shows rows of arched windows and stone-like, tile-edged walls, quietly Romanesque in feel.