Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Temizusho, a purification pavilion of about 1928 in Oyamazaki, has the only tiled roof of the six registered buildings, on round posts.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Worship Hall, built in 1928 in Oyamazaki, pairs a karahafu porch with stout timbers, boat-shaped brackets and a coved coffered ceiling.

Rikyu Hachimangu Shrine Main Hall, built in 1928 in Oyamazaki, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with three plank doors, registered for its medieval design.

Standing along Kyoto's celebrated Philosopher's Path near Ginkaku-ji, Restaurant Noa Noa occupies the former Western-style annex of the residence of Hashimoto Kansetsu (1883–1945), one of the leading Japanese-style painters of the Taisho and early Showa eras. Designed by Kansetsu himself and built around 1929 within his sprawling Hakusasonso estate, the modest two-storey reinforced-concrete building was conceived as a place to display his collection of Western antiquities. Its Spanish-style façade — graced with subtly Japanese rafter-shaped detailing on the entrance eaves — embodies a distinctive current of early-Showa residential design, and the property was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2005. Now serving European cuisine in the painter's original interiors and a leafy garden setting, Noa Noa offers visitors a uniquely atmospheric way to encounter a registered cultural property in the heart of eastern Kyoto.

Standing at the eastern foot of Shijo-ohashi Bridge, directly across from the historic Minamiza kabuki theater, Restaurant Kikusui has been a pioneer of Western cuisine in Kyoto since 1916. Its striking 1926 reinforced-concrete building, designed in an Expressionist style with Art Deco and Spanish accents and crowned by an iconic parabolic elevator tower, was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 1997 and remains a beloved Taisho-era landmark of Gion.

A late Edo yakuimon gate at Renjoji in Miyama, Kyoto, 2.3 meters wide, with a plain front of rectangular posts and large carved kaerumata braces on its sides.

A small late Edo belfry at Renjoji in Miyama, Kyoto, with inward-leaning posts tied by two tiers of beams, boarded sides and a curved beam carrying the bell.

Renjoji's Banshin Hall of 1828 in Miyama, Kyoto, sets five Shinto god shelves behind a Buddhist altar, giving form to the Nichiren cult of Thirty Guardian Deities.

Built in 1799, this thatched hip-and-gable hall at Renjoji in Miyama joins a six-room worship hall to the priest's quarters, with a memorial-tablet hall at the rear.

Waka-no-yu, founded in 1903 and rebuilt in 1923 in West Maizuru's Hiranoya arcade, is a Western-style public bathhouse registered in 2018 as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Soak in soft water drawn from the same source as Manai-no-shimizu (one of Japan's Heisei 100 Famous Waters), heated by firewood, while admiring hand-painted Mount Fuji murals by one of the country's last sento muralists.

On Shinmachi-dōri south of Nishi Hongan-ji, this Meiji-era machiya pairs three lattice patterns on its façade with an inner courtyard. Registered in 2008.

Behind the Raku potters' main house in Kyoto, a tiny sukiya building pairs a 3-mat tea room with a family altar room on round-log posts. Registered 2007; private.

Discover the 2,653-piece archive at Kyoto University's Katsura Campus — a living witness to how Japan first learned to teach architecture. Curated by Takeda Goichi, the 'father of Kansai architecture,' this Registered Tangible Cultural Property includes a plaster model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Imperial Hotel, scale models of ancient temples, and the renowned Josiah Conder drawings.

The front entrance of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji structure whose formal shikidai genkan links the older main house to the later detached sitting room.

Rebuilt in 1815 after a fire, the main house of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa is the commanding home of the Takahama headmen who founded the local porcelain kiln.

The main gate of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji four-legged gate with a tiled roof and wicket door, at the front of an estate built on Takahama porcelain.

The detached sitting room of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a refined Meiji guest wing where the poets Yosano Tekkan and Akiko are said to have stayed in 1932.

Built in 1920 as the record store of the Misumi court, this 45-square-metre brick building above Misumi West Port joined Japan's cultural property register in 2007.

This single-storey timber wing of 1920 held the waiting rooms of the Misumi court, linked to the courtroom block by a covered passage, and was registered in 2007.

The 1920 main building of the former Misumi Summary Court stands on a hill above the UNESCO-listed Misumi West Port. A rare surviving example of a regional courthouse built in pure Japanese style by the Ministry of Justice's works section, it is now open free to the public as the House of Law.