Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

Two granite posts of about 1929 still mark the entrance of Hekinan High School in Aichi. Once a four-post gate with lamps, they were registered in 2017.

A single-story timber workshop of 1934 in Kariya, Aichi, clad in zinc-coated iron with knee-braced posts. Registered in 2018; free tours by advance booking.

A single-story timber workshop of 1934 in Kariya, Aichi, where Toyota's first A1 prototype car was finished in 1935. Registered in 2018; free tours by booking.

Built in 1908 as the Imperial Army's 15th Division headquarters at Toyohashi, this plain wooden hall is now Aichi University Memorial Hall, open free on weekdays.

Oldest of five registered buildings at this Toyohashi shrine, raised in 1885: a kagura stage with a boat-bottom ceiling, a painted pine backdrop and a Noh side door.

Reinforced concrete chosen in 1930 to guard a shrine's treasures from fire, then shaped as a plastered storehouse: curved eaves, corner rafters, a hipped tile roof.

Ten square metres beside the torii, built in 1930: four posts battered inward, a strut truss under the ridge, and a ridge tablet that names no architect at all.

Toyohashi's largest registered shrine building, finished in 1930: an 18.2-metre worship hall with dropped end wings, facing the ground where the Onimatsuri runs.

Built in 1930 at Toyohashi in Aichi, this small shinmei-style main hall keeps Ise's rules: tapered ridge posts, six katsuogi billets, a thatch-shaped copper roof.

The Asahi Sunac Main Building in Owariasahi, Aichi, is a timber office of 1939 built to naval standards and registered in 2004. Its reliefs and access explained.

The Asahi Shrine Lattice Wall, a banbei screen of 1809 beside a torii in central Nagoya, was registered in 2022. Its lattice, copper roof and access explained.

Anchoji Sanmon in Toyota City, Aichi, is an 1832 temple gate registered in 2017. Its upper floor held a Buddhist altar, not a bell, a form rare at Shinshu temples.

Isegami Tunnel at Isegami Pass in Toyota, Aichi is a 308-metre granite road tunnel of 1897 with a rusticated stone portal. Registered in 2000, free to walk through.

Izutsuro is an 1868 timber inn at Fukue in Tahara, Aichi, registered in 2022. Three wings ring a courtyard, and a 52-mat banquet hall occupies the upper floor.

A late Edo mud-walled storehouse at the rear of a townhouse plot in Inuyama, Aichi. Two storeys, 59 square metres, round-log posts, a deep eave over the doors.

A tea garden waiting shelter of 1948 on the west side of a private garden in Tsushima, Aichi. Only 3.2 square metres, with round-log framing and bamboo rafters.

A late Edo townhouse facing Honmachi in Inuyama, Aichi. 175 square metres, with an earth-floored passage, two rows of rooms and a low half-storey. Registered 2005.

A tea house of 1868 in the corner of a private garden in Tsushima, Aichi. Moved from Yatomi in 1948 onto a built-up mound. Four-and-a-half mats, 24 square metres.

At the rear of the deep Inoue lot, beyond the garden, stands this small early-Meiji storehouse of about 31 square meters, its walls clad in boarding. Listed 2004.

On Honmachi-dori in Inuyama's castle town, this early-Meiji townhouse now houses a pickle shop and tearoom, so visitors can step right inside. Listed 2004.

Aichi’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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