Important Cultural Property of Aichi

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.

Completed in 1954 and designated in 2022, Nagoya TV Tower was Japan's first shared broadcast tower. On Naito Tachu's engineering, its seismic retrofit and visiting.

Built on Kyoto's Kawaramachi in 1907 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this Anglican church pairs a brick ground floor with a timber hall under bamboo ceilings.

Hazu Shrine in Nishio City, Aichi, has three Important Cultural Property halls in a row above Mikawa Bay: a main hall of 1580 and two early Edo subsidiary halls.

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.

A three-bay tahoto of around 1528 at Higashi Kannonji in Toyohashi, Aichi, an old temple said to be founded by Gyoki; free to visit. Important Cultural Property.

A vermilion two-storey gate of 1651, donated by Shogun Iemitsu, on the long stone-stepped approach to Horaiji in Shinshiro, Aichi, with carved tigers and qilin.

The Former Hotta Family Residence in Tsushima, Aichi, is an Owari merchant townhouse of 1765 and 1770, designated in 1978. Three storehouses and a tea room survive.

The shoin behind the main hall of Mandaraji in Konan, Aichi, built between 1663 and 1674 and used to entertain the shogun's inspectors. Important Cultural Property.

The 1632 main hall of Mandaraji in Konan, Aichi, donated by Hachisuka Iemasa, whose plan recalls the imperial Shishinden. Important Cultural Property.

The Muromachi tahoto of Mantokuji in Inazawa, Aichi, a plain three-bay pagoda with a cypress-bark roof thought to be modelled on that of Shokaiji nearby.

A small one-bay nagare-style guardian shrine of 1530 at Mantokuji in Inazawa, Aichi, dated by its ridge tablet and showing late-Muromachi details well.

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.

Myogenji Yanagido in Okazaki, Aichi, is a cypress-bark hall of early Shin Buddhism, designated in 1903. Its lattice shutters and disputed 1314 date repay attention.

Myokoji Chokushimon in Ichinomiya, Aichi, is a four-legged Zen gate of 1366 and the sole survivor of the 1890 fire, carrying an imperial plaque granted in 1353.

The Omoya of the Mochizuki Family Residence in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a late 18th-century thatched dwelling block whose fire, earth floor and stable stand next door.

The Niomon Gate of Ryusenji in Moriyama, Nagoya, built in 1607, is a two-storey gate with a shingled roof that survived the fire of 1906 along with the pagoda.

Rokusho Shrine in Okazaki, Aichi, revered by the Matsudaira clan, keeps three richly carved and painted buildings of 1636, designated Important Cultural Properties.