Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Former Nagasaki City Mayor's Residence is a two-story timber Western-style house designed by architect Suehiro Heisaku and completed in 1922. With its mansard roof, terracotta-clad walls, and Vienna Secession motifs in the entrance hall, it embodies Taishō-era modernism and was registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2009. Located a short walk from Suwa Shrine and the Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture, it is an essential stop on any tour of Nagasaki's modern architecture.

Discover Komaneki Bridge, a graceful 1903 stone arch bridge on the campus of Nagasaki University. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the last surviving structure of the former Nagasaki Higher Commercial School.

Completed in 1926 beneath the historic Himi Pass in Nagasaki, this 642-meter road tunnel was the largest in Japan at the time of its construction. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property for its distinguished Taisho-era portal design and significance in road engineering history, the Himi Tunnel invites visitors to explore the layers of transportation heritage along the legendary Nagasaki Kaido highway.

Discover Magome Church (Church of Archangel Michael), a striking white Gothic church on Iojima Island in Nagasaki. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1931 by Hidden Christian descendants, featuring rib-vault ceilings and ocean views.

Standing proudly along a national highway in central Shimabara, Nagasaki, the Maruichi Funeral Hall is a three-story dozō-zukuri storehouse with an extraordinary biography. Built as a Kobayashi family sake brewery in the late Meiji era, it was later relocated and reused successively as a silk mill, a railway property, an incense factory, and finally a funeral hall. With a ridge height of 14 meters and a footprint of 580 square meters, it is among the largest surviving Meiji-era timber storehouses in Kyushu, and was added to Japan's Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in 2014 for its remarkable scale, layered history, and well-preserved late-Meiji character.

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki Shipyard Hammerhead Crane, also known as the Giant Cantilever Crane, is a 62-meter-tall, 150-ton-capacity electric crane imported from Scotland in 1909. The first hammerhead crane installed in Japan, it is internationally recognized as the world's oldest hammerhead crane still in active operation. It was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003 and inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage component of Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution in 2015. Visitors can admire its towering silhouette from Nagasaki Mizube no Mori Park and harbor cruises.

The Yumiharidake Observatory, perched atop Mount Yumihari in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, was built in 1965 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Saikai National Park. Designed by renowned structural engineer Tsuboi Yoshikatsu using HP shell construction and adorned with a relief by sculptor Hongō Shin, it was registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2025. Visitors enjoy panoramic views of the Kujukushima islands, Sasebo Port, and the city skyline, along with nightscapes recognized among Japan's Top 100 Night Views.

Discover Ryotei Harumi, a Meiji-era ryotei in Nagasaki City registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, where elegant shoin-style architecture meets the historic shippoku cuisine born from Japan's 400 years of cross-cultural exchange.

Discover the Ashizawa No. 3 Stone Masonry Check Dam in Omi Village, Nagano Prefecture — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1887 using traditional dry stone masonry techniques, still protecting the valley after over 135 years.

Visit the Iwadare Family Residence Main Building in Shiojiri, Nagano — a registered cultural property built in 1836, with a special upper-level reception room added in 1861 for attendants of Princess Kazunomiya's historic Nakasendō procession to Edo.

The Ueda Sanshu Cooperative Office Building in Nagano is a registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1917. This elegant timber-framed office, with its symmetrical facade and pediment windows, stands as a proud symbol of Uedas golden age as Japans foremost silkworm-egg producing city.

The Ueda St. Michael and All Angels Church in Ueda City, Nagano Prefecture, is a wooden Christian chapel built in 1932 in the style of a Japanese Buddhist temple. With its distinctive tiled hip-and-gable roof crowned by a cross and a three-aisle interior crafted from Kiso cypress, the church was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2021 — one of only two temple-style churches in Japan.

A Meiji-era stone masonry erosion control dam built on the Ai-shimizu-zawa tributary of the Ushibuse River in Matsumoto, Nagano. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2021, this 7.8-meter-tall, 17.5-meter-long structure features an elegantly curved spillway and is a still-functioning relic of the Meiji-era Ministry of Home Affairs sabō (erosion control) project.

The Emyoji Temple Sanmon Gate in Matsushiro, Nagano, is a wooden gateway built in 1677 by Sanada Yukimichi, the third lord of the Matsushiro domain. As the sole structure to survive a devastating fire in 1825, this Edo-period gate features distinctive architectural elements and period-appropriate ornamentation, earning its registration as a National Tangible Cultural Property.

The Emyoji Bell Tower in Matsushiro, Nagano City, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property rebuilt in 1833 by Sanada Yukitsura, the eighth lord of Matsushiro Domain. Standing within the precincts of an Ōbaku Zen temple founded in 1677 by the third lord Sanada Yukimichi, this Edo-period structure reflects Chinese-influenced architecture and the deep ties between the Sanada clan and Zen Buddhism. The temple is also renowned as the resting place of Toyohime, the legendary Apricot Princess.

Discover Emyoji Temple Main Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Matsushiro, Nagano. Founded in 1677 by the Sanada clan, this Obaku Zen temple features a striking dragon ceiling painting, Chinese-influenced architecture, and the grave of Princess Toyo.

In Matsumoto's Hofukuji post town the Ozawa family kept the honjin inn. Their gable-fronted main house, rebuilt in 1913, rises around a skylit three-storey atrium.

The oldest of the four Ozawa buildings, this late-Edo storehouse in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town turns its gable to the old road, its base clad in namako-kabe tiling.

East of the Ozawa main house in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this early-Showa annex sets stained glass and coved plaster below tatami rooms, listed as a model of design.

On the west edge of the Ozawa compound in Matsumoto's Hofukuji town, this 1908 storehouse shows rafter shapes through its eave plaster, its plan shaped wholly by storage.