Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Aichi

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.

The Former Katō Family Residence Middle Gate, Kitanagoya, Aichi, is a plain Meiji yakuimon dividing the garden of a wealthy landowner's compound. Free to visit.

An imposing two-story earthen storehouse of the wealthy Katō landowners near Nagoya, this Registered Cultural Property now serves Kitanagoya's reminiscence center.

Early-Meiji timber gatehouse at the Former Kato Family Residence in Kitanagoya, Aichi, built for a landlord. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, open free.

An early Showa reception wing in Kitanagoya, Aichi, linked to the main house by a covered passage. Ten and eight mat rooms, a tea room with a convex roof.

On Nagoya's Horikawa canal, the Former Kato Shokai Building is a 1931 office built by a Siam trader and consul, once the Siam consulate, now a Thai restaurant.

A 1920 timber farmhouse beside the moat of fortified Honsho-ji temple in Anjo, its raised altar room and sermon-ready plan earning national registration in 2024.

In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.

Behind a Taisho mansion on Nagoya's Cultural Path stands the storehouse of actress Kawakami Sadayakko's former home, a registered reinforced-concrete kura.

A Taisho mansion built for actress Kawakami Sadayakko, restored on Nagoya's Cultural Path with stained glass and period rooms that recall her remarkable life.

An iron turntable of 1927 at Taketoyo Town in Aichi, only 7.5 metres across. Two tracks cross it at right angles, a freight-yard type that survives nowhere else.

A townhouse of 1923 at the eastern edge of the Inuyama castle town in Aichi. Nine rooms fill its upper floor, which began as a low half storey called banko-nikai.

A brick culvert of 1900 beneath the embankment of the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, where a nine-metre shaft and an eleven-metre bore drain a valley.

A 76-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a pilastered portal and a memorial to its builders at the mouth.

A 75-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a stone coping above its portal and a stretcher-bond brick lining.

A 1918 reinforced concrete arch over the Tsuge River in Shinshiro City, Aichi. Its 30.3 metre span was then Japan's longest, and lattice columns carry the deck.

Built in 1929 as a Nagoya Bank branch, the Former Tsushima Shinkin Bank Head Office is an all-concrete provincial bank, registered in 2006 and now free to enter.

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