Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

Explore the Sanmon gate of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi — a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1844, featuring exquisite Edo-period bracket work within a 1,200-year-old temple complex.

Discover the bell tower (shōrō) of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi Prefecture—a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1862. Featuring dense Zen-style ornamentation and fan-shaped rafters, this elegant structure stands within a temple founded in 815 by the great monk Saichō.

Discover the Main Hall of Manpuku-ji Temple in Chiryu, Aichi — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1896 by renowned master carpenter Onoda Matazō. Explore its 1,200-year history, stunning carvings, and ancient trees.

A 1918 clay-walled storehouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Black plaster walls, a namako-kabe dado, tiled hoods on brackets.

An 1889 timber townhouse in the castle town of Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Projecting eaves, wooden lattice below and iron lattice above. Exterior only.

A single-storey timber wing of the middle Meiji era in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. It runs south from the townhouse passage and holds the bath and lavatory.

Built in 1795 on an island in a Toyohashi park pond, the Minato Chikushima Benten Shrine is a three-bay tiled hall listed in 2008 with a painted coffered ceiling.

An early Meiji merchant house on the old Seto highway in Owariasahi, the Miyake Family Residence Main House hides a six-room farmhouse plan behind a townhouse face.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.

In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.

The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.

In Inuyama's castle town, the Miyataké family's 1931 earthen-walled storehouse, registered in 2006, keeps hand-laid cobble footings and a heavy vault-like iron door.

In Inuyama's castle town, this 1930s sukiya house turns on a faithful copy of the famed Kyoto tearoom Yūin. A Registered Cultural Property, it stays a private home.

A 48-meter timber-and-tile wall wraps a residence in Inuyama's castle town. Built in 1931, it is a Registered Cultural Property valued for the historic streetscape.

Built in 1921, this brick storehouse in Gamagōri, Aichi, is a rare survivor, often called Japan's only brick float storehouse, holding the Sangaigasa parade float.

The lower storey of a tahōtō pagoda at Myōgen-in near Nagoya, whose upper level was lost to the 1891 Nōbi earthquake. It now serves as a hall for Dainichi Nyorai.

On the Sakai River in Obu, Aichi, this 1916 stone sluice gate stops floodwater backing up the Myojin River. Built in artificial stone, it was registered in 2021.

The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.

At Meiji Mura near Inuyama stands a sentry box from the gate of Tokyo's Akasaka Palace, a National Treasure. Built in 1908, it is a Registered Cultural Property.

Built around 1887 in Kobe, now at Meiji-mura, this registered property pairs a stone-look Western front with a Japanese gabled porch and still serves beef hotpot.