Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

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.

On high ground east of Kotakano, this 1929 earth-covered reservoir fed the city by gravity, its tile-clad gatehouses with pointed-arch doorways adding grace.

Completed in 1954 and registered in 2016, this 34-metre timber wing in Toyohashi lines its east face with bay windows, a postwar answer to the one-sided classroom.

Built in 1944 and registered in 2016, this 62-metre timber schoolhouse in Toyohashi now holds five rooms of folk tools, from silk reeling to wartime household life.

Around 1928 a king post truss gave Nakasada Shoten Shosan Storehouse an 11-metre clear span for rows of brewing vats. Registered in 2016, in Taketoyo, Aichi.

Dating from around 1927, Nakasada Shoten Shoni Storehouse sets black sasarako boarding against white plaster window frames over a king post truss. Registered 2016.

Built in 1916 on an irregular plot, Nakasada Shoten Daigo Storehouse has a trapezoidal plan and a low koji loft. Registered in 2016, it now holds a brewing museum.

A Meiji-period storehouse on the old Tokaido in Arimatsu, Nagoya. Registered in 2008, it shows black lime plaster, a washed plinth and fire-sealing doors upstairs.

An early Showa outbuilding in Arimatsu, Nagoya, running east of the main house. Its cobble footing, boarded wall and black plaster match the fence. Registered 2008.

An early Showa bracket-arm gate on the north edge of a dyer's property in Arimatsu, Nagoya, facing the Tekoshi River. Only 1.7 meters wide. Registered in 2008.

An 1843 farmhouse on the old Ina Kaido in Toyokawa, with a low tsushi attic, a pantiled gable roof and a sunken mulberry pit. Registered in 2022 and privately owned.

A 1910 reception house in Nakamura Park, Nagoya, built for Kato Kiyomasa's 300th anniversary, with a cusped-gable porch and fine tatami rooms. Registered property.

An early Meiji tea house in the taste of Omotesenke master Rokurokusai, moved to Nakamura Park in Nagoya in 1957, of simple and refined design. Registered property.

The 1961 cathedral of the Diocese of Nagoya in Higashi Ward, a Gothic church in exposed concrete with twin openwork spires and a soaring interior. Registered.

A 1927 railway bascule bridge at Nagoya Port by movable-bridge pioneer Yamamoto Utaro, preserved with its leaf raised at 78 degrees since the line closed.

Built in 1930 in Tsuruma Park, Nagoya City Public Hall combines round-arched windows and crane-wing reliefs in early steel-framed concrete. Registered in 2020.

A Taisho-era villa in Mizuho Ward, Nagoya. Three wings step westward in echelon, holding a coffered reception room, stained glass and two tea rooms. Garden free.

The thatched front gate at the southeast corner of Tozanso in Nagoya. Knotted log posts, fan-splayed rafters, and a 32-meter wall of flattened bamboo.

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