Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Early Taisho Yakushi hall on Otakamori hill on Miyato Island, Matsushima, built with park works: a small pyramid-roofed hall in a revivalist style. Interior closed.

Mid-Meiji study hall and priests' quarters of Kofukuji, a Tendai temple in Tome, Miyagi, with a karahafu front and a reception room whose alcove uses coloured glass.

A 1930 earthen-walled sake shop in Kesennuma, Miyagi, registered in 2003, built on an irregular plot with parallelogram-cut timbers and rebuilt after the 2011 tsunami.

Farmhouse of the early Meiji period in Toyoma, Tome, Miyagi, with a natural slate roof, a raised ventilator and a tall upper floor for raising silkworms.

The Former Kannoya Kanbei Main House, a one-storey Meiji merchant home of c.1889 in Toyoma, Miyagi: four rooms in a row ending in a tokonoma room, open to a garden.

The Former Kannoya Kanbei Grain Storehouse, an earthen store of c.1899 in Toyoma, Miyagi: a torii-shaped upper window, plainer plaster walls, and a roof puzzle.

The Former Kannoya Kanbei Document Storehouse, an 1890 earthen store in Toyoma, Miyagi: a big canopy over the upper window, plastered eaves and namako-kabe tile.

A 1909 soy sauce brewery office in Toyoma, Tome City: a two-story corner townhouse with projecting eaves, board-clad upper floor and beams exposed on its gable.

A late-Meiji soy sauce storehouse in Toyoma, Tome City, with two raised ventilating roofs on its ridge, namako-tiled walls and a traditional roof frame inside.

A 1912 soy sauce storehouse in Toyoma, Tome City: a long single-story earthen building with a separate roof, heavy plaster band and an imitation Western roof frame.

The Former Second Higher School Main Gate on Tohoku University's Katahira Campus in Sendai is an ornamental brick gate designed in 1889 by Ministry of Education architects Yamaguchi Hanroku and Kuru Masamichi. Having survived multiple relocations and earthquake damage, the gate was lovingly restored by alumni to its original location and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2021.

Completed in 1930 on Tohoku University's Katahira campus, this scratch-tiled block served as the school gate: a vaulted passage runs through it under the SKK crest.

Built in 1910 among the timber halls of Sendai's Second Higher School, this three-storey brick stack kept books safe from fire. Its English-bond walls still stand.

This 1934 stable in Kurihara, Miyagi, is eleven metres long, with an earth floor, doorways widened for horses and deep segai-zukuri eaves beneath a thatched roof.

Built between 1830 and 1868 in Kurihara, Miyagi, this thatched farmhouse keeps a regular four-room plan, with an alcove and sao-buchi ceiling in its formal room.

Located in the quiet mountains of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, the Former Tsukidate Elementary School Building is a two-story wooden schoolhouse built in 1922 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. With its Stick Style exterior, Western-style truss roof, and rotating transom windows, it offers a rare and atmospheric glimpse into Taishō-era educational architecture.

Completed in 1930, this L-shaped classroom building gathers its arch, stone cladding, and rooftop tower at the center of a rare symmetrical facade.

This 1929 laboratory pairs brick tile and arched windows with a plainer upper floor, its central entrance crowned by stained glass, in Sendai's Katahira Campus.

Built in 1926, this granite-clad gate with pen-nib capitals spans 6.3 meters; its doors were lost to wartime requisition, yet the pillars still stand.

Built in 1926 by Tsuyoshi Ogura, this Romanesque former library reading room now houses the Tohoku University Archives, open free on weekdays in Sendai.