Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

The Kozenji Kuri in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1830 on the ruins of a medieval castle. This Edo-period kitchen hall of a Rinzai Zen temple founded by the samurai Kajiwara Kagetoki features exquisite traditional timber craftsmanship including rainbow beams and a distinctive smoke-vent dormer. Located near National Treasure Inuyama Castle, it offers a serene glimpse into centuries of warrior heritage and Zen monastic life.

Discover the Sanmon Gate of Kozenji Temple in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture — a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1939. Explore its connection to the legendary samurai Kajiwara Kagetoki, the Haguro Castle ruins, and over 850 years of Japanese history.

Discover the main hall of Kozenji Temple in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1893 by the Takenaka family. Standing on the ruins of Haguro Castle, this Rinzai Zen temple traces its origins to the Kamakura-period warrior Kajiwara Kagetoki.

Discover the Kokonoe Mirin Okura, a registered tangible cultural property in Hekinan, Aichi. Built in 1706 and relocated in 1787, this historic warehouse is the symbol of Japan's oldest mirin brewery with over 300 years of history.

The Kojima Residence roofed wall runs 56 metres along a lane in Inuyama's castle town, fronting a 1597 sake brewery with a formal honored gate. Registered in 2005.

A small late-Edo tea pavilion in a 400-year-old sake brewer's compound in Inuyama, its red bengara walls a registered piece of the old castle-town streetscape.

Zaikaji Temple Main Hall, a registered Edo-period hall on a mountainside in Aichi, was rebuilt in 1823 by carpenter Okada Gozaemon and shelters a hidden Kannon.

In Toyokawa, Aichi, Zaikaji's Monju-do is a registered 1859 timber hall by carpenter Okada Gozaemon, housing a hidden Manjushri and a working goma fire altar.

The gate of Saishin-ji, a Jodo Shinshu temple in Anjo, Aichi, is a small four-legged gate built in 1903, richly carved with dragons and registered in 2022.

Built in 1835, Saishin-ji Main Hall in Anjo, Aichi, is a Jodo Shinshu temple hall with wave-cut gable pendants, registered in 2022 as the work of local carpenters.

A small earthen storehouse at Sairenji temple near Inuyama Station, built in the Meiji era and moved here in 1937. One of the temple's five registered buildings.

The kuri at Sairenji in Inuyama is a late-Edo priest's residence and kitchen wing, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the town below Inuyama Castle.

Below Inuyama Castle stands Sairen-ji's gate, a late-Edo yakuimon registered in 2007 for its place in the historic castle-town streetscape and its carved detail.

In Inuyama's old castle town, Sairenji's two-story shoin is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, valued for the historic temple streetscape it preserves.

The 1760 main hall of Sairenji, a Pure Land temple in Inuyama's temple town, is a five-bay, hip-and-gable hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

A registered 1872 farmhouse in Kira, Aichi, built by a coastal shipping family. Its drama is overhead: a well-crib roof frame above the earthen-floored rooms.

The Sahashi Family Residence in Inuyama, known as Toraya, is a mid-Meiji townhouse registered in 2007 for its balustraded upper windows and black-plaster end bays.

A 1927 wooden wing of the former Damine Elementary School in Aichi's Okumikawa hills, listed as a national cultural property in 2014 and closed as a school in 2024.

A 1927 timber schoolhouse in the Aichi mountain hamlet of Damine, this Registered Cultural Property was preserved by a seismic retrofit and used until 2024.

On Ama City's old Kamakura Road stands the four-legged Zen-style gate of a Nichiren temple. Registered in 2005, this mid-Edo gate survived the 1891 Nobi earthquake.