Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The ōiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, built around 1856, encloses the older honden and is shaped like a full main hall with a carved canopy.

Built in 1909, the chūden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, is a rare middle hall between the worship and covering halls, carved with dragons and cranes.

Built in 1882, the haiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, stands at the front of the central halls, richly carved, its roof re-tiled in 2024 to 2025.

At Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, a small Edo-period honden sits within a covering hall, anchoring a rare line of four halls registered in 2024.

On Honmachi-dori, which climbs to Inuyama Castle, this late-Edo townhouse is unusually broad at 11.8 meters, its face black plaster behind lattice. Listed 2004.

At the south edge of the Umeda property stands this early-Showa warehouse, a long two-story timber building of about 18 meters, divided into five rooms. Listed 2004.

Facing the Umeda property's west road, this 9.1-meter tiled wall joins the main house to the warehouse, ink-black boards below and white plaster above. Listed 2004.

Behind Eijuji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, the Kaisando honors the temple's founder while the adjoining Ihaido holds memorial tablets. Built in 1893.

Eijuji's Kyozo is a tiny mud-walled storehouse, about three metres square, in the temple's northeast. Plaster walls and a pyramidal roof guarded its scriptures.

Joined to the east of Eijuji's main hall, the kuri and shoin form its largest building: a kitchen with earthen floor and stove, and two formal fifteen-mat rooms.

Eijuji's mountain gate is a four-legged zelkova structure carved in 1794 by the noted Shinshu Tatekawa school, its beams wrapped in deep three-dimensional relief.

On the west of Eijuji's front garden, the shuryo was the monks' communal quarters. An earthen passage runs east, and six rooms of graded size fill two rows.

Southwest of Eijuji's main hall stands the zendo, a meditation hall of 1722. A gabled canopy fronts it; tatami fills the center, board floors run along the sides.

Discover Eijuji Chinjuden, a registered tangible cultural property in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture. This Taisho-era guardian hall enshrines Dakiniten within the historic precinct of a Soto Zen temple linked to haiku master Matsuo Basho.

The Kuri (priests' quarters) of Enmyō-ji in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, is an unusual structure that began life as a merchant townhouse in the late Edo-period castle town and was relocated and reassembled within the temple precinct in the mid-Meiji period. With a gabled pantile roof and a footprint of about 314 square meters, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2012. As a rare surviving example of a castle-town machiya repurposed as a temple residence, it pairs naturally with a walk through Inuyama's preserved old town and a visit to nearby Inuyama Castle.

Standing in a quiet corner of Inuyama's preserved castle town in Aichi Prefecture, Enmyoji Sanmon is a four-pillar gate built in 1937 by the eleventh-generation master carpenter Ito Heizaemon. Featuring a copper-plated gabled roof crowned by an arched karahafu and lavishly decorated with tiered rainbow beams and frog-leg struts, this finely crafted gate was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2012. With a 300-year-old weeping cherry blooming just within its threshold, it offers one of Inuyama's most memorable views.

Standing in Inuyama's historic temple district just minutes from the National Treasure castle, the Enmyo-ji Belfry is a three-meter-square open-sided bell tower built between 1661 and 1751. Its Zen-style structural body, densely packed two-stepped brackets, jar-strut gable decoration, and deeply curved eaves earned it Registered Tangible Cultural Property status in 2012. Discover a hidden architectural gem set within a temple famous for its 300-year-old weeping cherry tree.

The Sōryō (monks' quarters) of Enmyoji Temple, nestled between the main hall and priest's residence in Inuyama castle town, Aichi Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the mid-Meiji period. Distinguished by its kirizuma-zukuri gabled roof with sangawara pantiles and a formal stepped shikidai-genkan entrance facing the main hall, the building was registered on August 13, 2012, alongside the temple's other four historic structures. Set within the grounds of a Jōdo Shinshū temple famed for its 300-year-old weeping cherry tree, the Sōryō quietly tells the story of architectural evolution from the Edo through the early 20th century.

Discover Enmyoji Temple's Main Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Inuyama, Aichi. Built in the early Edo period and renovated in 1689, this Jodo Shinshu sanctuary preserves rare architectural features and stands beside a magnificent 300-year-old weeping cherry tree.

The Otani Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Toyokawa, Aichi is a remarkable two-story reinforced concrete granary built in 1928. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, this compact 23m² structure features a distinctive vault ceiling and reflects the modernization of rural Japanese agricultural architecture during the early Showa era.