Important Cultural Property of Aichi

Built in 1606, the main hall of Tobe Shrine is the only shrine building in Nagoya designated a national Important Cultural Property, rich in Momoyama-era carving.

The late-Muromachi main hall of Tomiyoshi-Takehaya Shrine in Kanie, a one-bay nagare-zukuri building designated in 1953, is famed for the UNESCO-listed Sunari rite.

The 1913 Church of St. Matthew at Toyohashi is a wooden Orthodox sanctuary attributed to Kawamura Izo, Aichi's oldest, named an Important Cultural Property in 2008.

Two Important Cultural Property gates at Nagoya Castle, built around 1612 in the defensive korai-mon style. Both survived the 1945 air raids that razed the keep.

The 1477 main hall of Hachimangu in Toyokawa is a three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine with a cypress-bark roof, the official Hachiman shrine of old Mikawa province.

Hasshokan, a Nagoya ryotei grown from an 1880s timber merchant's villa, had nine buildings designated in 2020, centered on Horiguchi Sutemi's imperial Miyuki-no-ma.

The Tahōtō Pagoda at Higashi Kannonji Temple in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property built around 1528. This three-bay pagoda masterfully blends Chinese Zen and Japanese architectural styles. Having survived the devastating Hōei tsunami of 1707, it stands as a rare and precious example of late Muromachi-period Buddhist architecture, featuring a distinctive white-plastered kamebara and elegant shingled roof.

Discover the Horaiji Niomon Gate, an Important Cultural Property built by Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1651. Explore intricate carvings, 1,425 stone steps, and the spiritual beauty of Mt. Horaiji in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture.

Discover Mandara-ji Shoin, an Important Cultural Property in Konan, Aichi. This Muromachi-style shoin reception hall served as a war council site before the Battle of Sekigahara and hosted shogunal inspectors during the Edo period. Visit during the famous Wisteria Festival.

Discover Mandaraji Temple's Main Hall (Shodo), an Important Cultural Property in Konan City, Aichi. Built in 1632 with a design inspired by the Imperial Shishinden, this Jodo sect temple also offers spectacular wisteria gardens each spring.

Discover the Tahoto (multi-storied pagoda) at Mantokuji Temple in Inazawa, Aichi — an Important Cultural Property from the Muromachi period, featuring elegant cypress bark roofing and classic Japanese architectural beauty.

Tucked into the grounds of Mantokuji—Aichi's famed Peony Temple in Inazawa City—stands the Chinjudo, a small shrine built in 1530 in the single-bay Nagare-zukuri style with a cypress-bark roof. This nationally designated Important Cultural Property preserves the refined craftsmanship of late Muromachi-period architecture, just an 8-minute walk from JR Inazawa Station.

Step inside Japan's only surviving early-Meiji prefectural office, a 54-meter pseudo-Western masterpiece of 1879 that hosted Emperor Meiji and now stands relocated at Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi.

In Kasugai, Aichi, Mitsuzoin's tahoto is an Important Cultural Property: an esoteric pagoda in rare Zen style, the sole medieval building of a vast Tendai temple.

Discover Ryusenji Niomon, a 1607 Important Cultural Property gate at one of Nagoya's Owari Four Kannon temples. Built in three-bay rōmon style with a kokera-shingled hip-and-gable roof, it has welcomed pilgrims for over four centuries on a hilltop overlooking the Shōnai River.

Rokusho Shrine in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, is a historic Shinto shrine revered as the guardian deity of Tokugawa Ieyasu's birthplace. Five of its buildings — the Main Hall, Offering Hall, Worship Hall, Divine Kitchen, and Tower Gate — are designated Important Cultural Properties of Japan. Built under the patronage of the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, these structures showcase stunning polychrome decorations and gongen-zukuri architecture rivaling the splendor of Nikko Toshogu.

Excavated from Toyota Otsuka Kofun in Aichi Prefecture, this ensemble of Sueki ceramics was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1995. Featuring footed jars, four-linked cup stands, and child-bearing jar compositions, the assemblage is widely regarded as a peak example of decorated Sueki and is now displayed at the new Toyota City Museum, opened in 2024.

Housed at the Toyohashi City Museum of Art and History, this nationally designated Important Cultural Property is a collection of gilt-bronze horse trappings, beads and sue ware excavated from one of the Tokai region's largest keyhole-shaped tombs — vivid evidence of a late-6th-century chieftain of ancient Ho Province with strong ties to the Yamato court.

Held in Gamagōri City, Aichi Prefecture, this Important Cultural Property is a rare Heian-period manuscript scroll preserving the records of two eleventh-century waka poetry contests. Part of the canonical twenty-volume Ruijū-utaawase compilation, it offers a vivid window into the courtly poetic culture of the era and the literary life of provincial governor-poets.

The Important Cultural Property 'Mirrors and Mirror Boxes' at Atsuta Jingu is a rare collective set of bronze wakyō mirrors paired with their original maki-e lacquered boxes, dating from the late Heian to the Kamakura period. With pine, bamboo, and twin-crane mirror designs and boxes adorned with paulownia phoenixes and Mount Hōrai motifs, they reveal the heights of medieval Japanese craft and aristocratic devotion at one of Nagoya's most sacred sites.

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