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Discover Ousyukutei, a 1916 sukiya-style tea house at Gamagori Classic Hotel. This registered cultural property offers authentic tea ceremonies, hot springs, and stunning views of Mikawa Bay in Aichi, Japan.

Discover Gamagori Classic Hotel, a 1934 Art Deco landmark and Japan's first international tourism hotel. Experience castle-style architecture, ocean views, and timeless elegance in Aichi Prefecture.

Discover Rokkakudo, a registered tangible cultural property built in 1936 at Gamagori Classic Hotel. This unique hexagonal building showcases Japanese architectural elegance and now serves exquisite teppanyaki cuisine with views of Mikawa Bay.

Discover Ryotei Kawabun, a 400-year-old registered cultural property in Nagoya. Experience authentic kaiseki cuisine in a historic sukiya-style building designed by master architects, where prime ministers and world leaders have dined since the Edo period.

Discover the Aichi Prefectural Government Building, an Important Cultural Property blending Western modernism with Japanese castle aesthetics. Located near Nagoya Castle, this 1938 landmark showcases the rare Imperial Crown Style (Teikan Yōshiki).

Clad in brown scratch tile, this 1928 schoolhouse on Aichi Gakuin University's Kusumoto campus in Nagoya was designed by a pupil of the architect Suzuki Teiji.

Two reinforced-concrete pillars built in 1938 still mark the entrance to Nagoya's Asahigaoka High School, a campus with roots in an 1870 school of Western studies.

Cast in reinforced concrete around 1929, the gateposts of Nagoya's Ishin High School carry Secession-style ornament and were registered as cultural property in 2017.

Two granite gateposts have framed Okazaki's Iwazu High School since 1937, topped with a 54-centimetre stone hemisphere and registered as cultural property in 2017.

Komaki High School's 1929 front gate: reinforced concrete dressed as stone with carved acanthus capitals, registered in 2017 among thirteen old-system school gates.

At the south edge of the Umeda property stands this early-Showa warehouse, a long two-story timber building of about 18 meters, divided into five rooms. Listed 2004.

Facing the Umeda property's west road, this 9.1-meter tiled wall joins the main house to the warehouse, ink-black boards below and white plaster above. Listed 2004.

Standing in a quiet corner of Inuyama's preserved castle town in Aichi Prefecture, Enmyoji Sanmon is a four-pillar gate built in 1937 by the eleventh-generation master carpenter Ito Heizaemon. Featuring a copper-plated gabled roof crowned by an arched karahafu and lavishly decorated with tiered rainbow beams and frog-leg struts, this finely crafted gate was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2012. With a 300-year-old weeping cherry blooming just within its threshold, it offers one of Inuyama's most memorable views.

The Otani Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Toyokawa, Aichi is a remarkable two-story reinforced concrete granary built in 1928. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, this compact 23m² structure features a distinctive vault ceiling and reflects the modernization of rural Japanese agricultural architecture during the early Showa era.

The Oriental Building Rooftop Ferris Wheel, located atop Nagoya Mitsukoshi Sakae department store, is the oldest surviving rooftop Ferris wheel in Japan. Built in 1956 and designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the memory of Japan's beloved postwar department store rooftop amusement parks.

In Fuso, Aichi, the 1934 belfry of Kakuo-ji is a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property: one bay square, packed with dense brackets and a painted ceiling.

Kakujoro Main Building, a 1936 restaurant-inn in the old port of Fukue on the Atsumi Peninsula, became Tahara's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2022.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property designed in 1930 by Swiss architect Max Hinder, this Western-style rectory stands within the grounds of Nagoya's oldest Catholic church, founded in 1887. Located in the Shirakabe-Chikara-Shuki Townscape Preservation District, it is a precious example of early Showa-era colonial-style architecture.

The 1928 main hall of Kijo Elementary School in Kariya, Aichi, is a reinforced-concrete building by Onaka Hajime on the old castle grounds, now a free local museum.

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.