Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

Along the west and south of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya runs a concrete retaining wall faced with coursed Oya stone, capped and crowned with a clipped hedge.

At the south edge of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 tiled wall steps down the slope in three stages to a recessed sliding-door gate with carved transoms.

At the cut northwest corner of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 bracket-arm gate and tiled earthen wall form the formal street face of a Showa garden house.

The Former Head Office of Kankyo Mirin in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, is a 1937 reinforced-concrete office building registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. As the first RC structure ever built in Kanie Town, this elegant Showa-era landmark features scratch-tile walls and terracotta entrance trim along the Kanie River.

Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.

Built in 1923 within the grounds of Kankyo Shuzo, a historic mirin brewery in Kanie, Aichi, this two-story wooden residence blends a refined shoin-style interior with a second-floor Western-style room. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it embodies the architectural transition of the Taisho era.

Completed in 1923 alongside the family residence, the Kankyo Mirin Residence Earthen Storehouse in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture is a two-story dozō registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2005. Located within the working compound of Kankyō Shuzō — a mirin and sake brewery founded in 1862 — it features striking black-plaster walls and an unusual direct connection to the main residence, embodying the riverside heritage of one of Japan's longest-running fermentation enterprises.

A storehouse built around 1924 for a town office in Aichi, hiding reinforced concrete walls under a traditional plastered look, now the local museum's collection store.

A 1924 town council hall in Aichi, registered as a cultural property in 2006. Its tall assembly chamber, coffered ceiling and public gallery survive as a free museum.

In Shinshiro, Aichi, this earthen storehouse held the ledgers of East Mikawa's first private bank. Its mid-Meiji black-plaster doors survive by the 1925 hall.

Built in 1925 for eastern Mikawa's first private bank, this concrete landmark in Shinshiro is now the Horaikan cafe and a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

A 1929 reinforced-concrete water tower at the former Okada Clinic in Chita, Aichi, stored well water for the clinic and home before piped water reached the town.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Okada: a small 1931 storehouse from an army doctor's clinic in the historic home of Chita cotton, near Nagoya.

Built in 1929 by a retired army surgeon, the Former Okada Clinic in Chita joins a tiled roof to a Western truss and colored-glass transoms. Registered 2015.

A 1929 doctor's clinic in Okada, an old cotton town in Chita. A registered cultural property of mixed Western and Japanese design, now a working weaving workshop.

In Chita's old cotton town of Okada, this small 1929 storehouse served a retired army surgeon's clinic. Its street facade mimics cut stone; registered in 2015.

A registered 1929 wall in Chita, Aichi: 33 meters of arched reinforced concrete on a stone base, framing a doctor's compound within an old cotton-town streetscape.

A tiny 1929 hoanden in the grounds of Sanjo Shrine, Ichinomiya: concrete shaped like wood, built to hold the Emperor's portrait. It survived postwar demolition.

Near Nagoya, the north high wall of the former Kato residence doubles as a side eave of the main house, with lattice windows above for light. Registered in 1999.

The Former Kato Residence main house in Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a registered timber home of a Meiji landlord family, now used for the city's reminiscence therapy.

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