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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Former Koyama Family Residence Garden Gate and Fence (Tamuraya Hotaruan)
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Koyama Family Residence Garden Gate and Fence (Tamuraya Hotaruan)

The garden gate and cedar-bark fence of the Former Koyama Family Residence in Miyama enclose the garden before the main reception room. Registered in 2008.

Former Takeda Family Residence Main Building
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Takeda Family Residence Main Building

An early Meiji machiya on Takatsuji-dori in Kyoto, once a dye merchant's house. Two winding staircases by Tango carpenters survive inside. Registered in 2014.

Former Omuro Main House
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Omuro Main House

The main house of Kyutei Omuro, a 1937 sukiya villa on Narabigaoka's slope in Kyoto. A Mount Fuji transom crowns rooms whose karin table mirrors the garden.

Former Omuro Teahouse Soan
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Omuro Teahouse Soan

Soan, the freestanding tea house of Kyutei Omuro near Narabigaoka in Kyoto. This four-and-a-half-mat room opens its north wall to frame the town and the hills.

Former Omuro Storehouse
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Omuro Storehouse

The storehouse of Kyutei Omuro stands at the northwest corner of this 1937 Kyoto villa, a plastered kura registered for how it shapes the historic scene.

Former Omuro Waiting Area
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Omuro Waiting Area

West of the tea house in Kyutei Omuro's garden stands the machiai, a waiting arbor of just 4.8 m², packed with design from copper roof to round window.

Former Residence Omuromon Gate and Wall
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Residence Omuromon Gate and Wall

A tiled wall traces the edges of Kyutei Omuro, a gabled gate set into it. The adzed door and boat-shaped brackets carry the villa's refinement to its boundary.

Former Terae Family Residence, Store and Main House
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Terae Family Residence, Store and Main House

A 1935 Kyoto merchant house registered in 2021. It keeps the omoya-zukuri plan but gives the shopfront a Western face, with an earth floor and a corridor behind.

Former Terae Family Residence Annex
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Terae Family Residence Annex

Registered in 2021, this 28-square-metre building of 1935 stands at the back of a Kyoto dyer's plot, with a goods store below and a staff rest room above.

Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Kiln
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Kiln

The smallest of three registered buildings at Namikawa Yasuyuki's Kyoto residence, this 18 square metre kiln house kept its shuttered windows and plastered ceiling.

Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Workshop
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Workshop

The single-storey workshop where Namikawa Yasuyuki's wired cloisonne was made around 1902, its two small rooms lined with shelving and now open as a museum gallery.

Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Main Building
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Yasuyuki Namikawa Residence Main Building

Built in 1893 by enameller Namikawa Yasuyuki, this Kyoto townhouse pairs a classic machiya front with tall lintels and glazed verandas made for foreign buyers.

Former Fukuchiyama Shinkin Bank Head Office
Kyoto 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fukuchiyama Shinkin Bank Head Office

A 1928 reinforced concrete bank in Fukuchiyama, registered in 2025. Its symmetrical front turns on a chamfered corner; today it sells Tanba azuki sweets.

Former Fujinomori-yu Bathhouse
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Fujinomori-yu Bathhouse

Bathhouse of 1930 on Kuramaguchi-dori in Kyoto, with a karahafu entrance and decorative tiles inside and out, now the café Sarasa Nishijin, its old layout intact.

Former Maizuru Naval District Class B Official Residence
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Maizuru Naval District Class B Official Residence

Navy residence of 1902 in Maizuru, Kyoto, a senior Class B house built to standard naval specifications, with guest rooms and living quarters clearly divided.

Kyoto Art Center North Building (former Meirin Elementary School North Wing)
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyoto Art Center North Building (former Meirin Elementary School North Wing)

North building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 north wing of Meirin school, with ramps in a quarter-round tower and window canopies; now studios and a gallery.

Kyoto Art Center Main Gate and Wall (former Meirin Elementary School Main Gate and Wall)
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyoto Art Center Main Gate and Wall (former Meirin Elementary School Main Gate and Wall)

Main gate and wall of 1931 at the Kyoto Art Center on Muromachi-dori: Secession-style octagonal piers with domed tops, matched by the side gates and wall posts.

Kyoto Art Center West Building (former Meirin Elementary School Main Building)
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyoto Art Center West Building (former Meirin Elementary School Main Building)

West building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 main block of Meirin school, with Spanish tiles, a balcony, a coffered 78-mat great hall and the old auditorium.

Kyoto Art Center South Building (former Meirin Elementary School South Wing)
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyoto Art Center South Building (former Meirin Elementary School South Wing)

South building of the Kyoto Art Center, the 1931 south wing of Meirin school, with an arched entrance, a tower, three round windows and a fourth-floor tea room.

Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art North Information Board
Kyoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art North Information Board

The north information board of the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, built in about 1933, has posts tiled like the main building under a small gabled copper roof.