Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Main Hall of Kagaku-ji Temple in Nishio City, Aichi Prefecture, is a Rinzai Zen hōjō-style hall reconstructed in 1684 with funds from the family of Kira Yoshinaka — the historical figure at the center of Japan's legendary Forty-Seven Rōnin tale. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this remarkably preserved structure retains most of its original 17th-century timber. Discover the Kira clan's legacy, imperial treasures, and the rich historical landscape of the Kira district.

At Kakuo-ji, a Rinzai temple in Fuso, Aichi, the 1840 kuri is a Registered Cultural Property: a 24-meter temple kitchen with a roof smoke vent and a decorated gable.

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

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.

Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.

Kakuoji Temple Main Hall in Fuso, Aichi, dates from 1814 and joined Japan's register in 2005. A Zen hall on an abbot's six-room plan, with a hidden upper floor.

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 thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.

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 Catholic Chikara-machi Church Believers' Hall in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a colonial-style two-story wooden Western building constructed around 1889–1892 as the rectory for French missionary Father Tulpin. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the history of early Catholic evangelization and Meiji-era Western architecture in Nagoya.

This Meiji-era brick wall at Nagoya's oldest Catholic church stretches 29 meters along Chikara-machi Street, featuring English-bond brickwork atop a cut-stone base. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, it contributes to the historic streetscape of the Shirakabe–Chikara–Shumoku Preservation District along Nagoya's Cultural Path.

A brick downdraft kiln of 1921 and the black timber shed built around it in Tokoname, Aichi. Registered in 1997, and visitors walk into the firing chamber itself.

A brick chimney of 1921 rising 21 meters over Tokoname, Aichi, tapering from a 2.2-meter square base. Built to vent a drainpipe kiln, it was registered in 1997.

The Kamiya Family Residence Well House in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji well shelter with four inward-leaning posts, a cut-stone curb and a surviving bucket pulley.

The Kamiya Family Residence Inner Room in Anjo, Aichi, is a late Meiji reception wing of 147 square metres, four rooms in a grid finished in the sukiya manner.

The Kamiya Family Residence Rear Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji two-storey mud-walled kura with a sheltered porch, used daily for household tools.

The Kamiya Family Residence Kettle House and Storage Shed in Anjo, Aichi, is a 14-metre strip of building, 1.8 metres deep, whose black wall reads as a fence.

The Kamiya Family Residence Koan Teahouse in Nagoya is a late Edo tea room of 10 square metres, moved here in 1911, with timber said to come from Nagoya Castle.

The Kamiya Family Residence Waiting Arbor in Nagoya is a 1923 tea garden bench of 1.3 square metres, with a half-moon window cut only on the principal guest's side.

The Kamiya Family Rice Storehouse in Anjo, Aichi, is a mid-Meiji kura of 80 square metres, its 7.3-metre span crossed by beams trebled up in the roof frame.

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