Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The main house of the Ogawa Family Residence, a late-Meiji villa in Miki with a formal porch and a raised guest chamber, built with fine timber and Kunikane joinery.

The plain maid's quarters of the Ogawa Family Residence, between the main house and storeroom. With a bath and privy, it is a rare late-Meiji record of staff space.

The outer wall enclosing the Ogawa Family Residence, broken on the north by the front gate. It defines the long north-south lot and screens the garden from the street.

The storehouse of the Ogawa Family Residence, a thick-walled dozo near the inner courtyard, built to guard household goods from fire and damp among the courtyard buildings.

The storeroom of the Ogawa Family Residence, on the west boundary beside the maid's quarters, part of the row of service buildings that kept this late-Meiji villa running.

Discover the Uchi-Ōkura, a registered tangible cultural property within the Kajihara estate in Ōshio, Himeji. This Edo-period earthen storehouse reflects the prosperity of salt industry landowners in Hyogo Prefecture.

Discover the Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse in Himeji's Oshio district, an Edo-period earthen storehouse registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Built in 1842 by a prominent salt-field owning family, it features elegant white plaster walls and fine decorative plasterwork.

Built in 1907 as the residence of American citizen M.J. Shea, Kitano Monogatarikan is a colonial-style wooden Western house in Kobe's historic Kitano district. After being devastated by the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, it was faithfully reconstructed and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Now home to the Starbucks Coffee Kobe Kitano Ijinkan Store — Japan's first Starbucks in a registered cultural property — it offers a unique experience blending Meiji-era heritage with modern café culture.

Built in 1927 as a social hall for the merchants of Hyogo-no-tsu, the Former Okakata Club is a nationally registered tangible cultural property that miraculously survived both the Kobe air raids of WWII and the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake of 1995. This Secessionist-style Western building preserves the memory of Hyogo-no-tsu's prosperity and will reopen as the Kobe City Historical Archives in June 2026.

Discover the Former Kaisaki Clinic, a Meiji-era Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Asago City, Hyogo. Explore this evocative medical building nestled within the historic Kuchiganaya silver mining townscape, part of Japan Heritage's Silver Horse Road, Mineral Road.

The Former Maya Kanko Hotel (Mayakan), nestled on the slopes of Mount Maya in Kobe, is an Art Deco reinforced concrete building completed in 1929. Known as the 'Queen of Ruins' for its graceful, curving silhouette enveloped by mountain forest, it became the first ruin in Japan to be registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2021. Discover the fascinating history and architectural beauty of this iconic heritage site.

Built in 1907 by industrialist Muto Sanji on the Maiko coast, this colonial-style Western residence was designed by Okuma Yoshikuni, the architect who later oversaw the construction of Japan's National Diet Building. Now open to the public within Maiko Park, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property features a distinctive circular balcony, natural slate roof, and original Meiji-era furnishings.

The Yagi family's household storehouse at Himeji, the only building on the site firmly dated to 1846, a two-story mud-walled store with a raised-beam roof.

Main house of the Yagi family, hereditary headmen on the Ibo River in Himeji, a large single-story farmhouse under a hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2021.

A two-story mud-walled storehouse in the Yagi compound at Himeji. Its west half is a shoin parlor for receiving domain officials, its east half a plain store.

The rice granary of the Yagi family, who held the annual tax rice at Himeji. This two-story mud-walled store sits by a former waterway for loading by boat.

The gatehouse of the Yagi compound at Himeji. Behind its formal tiled facade with a wicket door lay the estate's counting room to the west and a cattle shed.

Discover Former Yamatoya Ryokan, a 1927 wooden three-story inn on Kinosaki's Yu-no-Sato Street. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, it embodies the elegant post-earthquake reconstruction streetscape of Japan's beloved 1,300-year-old hot spring town.

Standing in Kobe's Suma Seaside Park, the Former Wadamisaki Lighthouse is Japan's oldest surviving iron lighthouse, built in 1884. Known affectionately as the 'Red Lighthouse of Suma,' this Registered Tangible Cultural Property tells the story of Japan's opening to the world and its early modernization.

Standing directly in front of the east exit of JR Ikuno Station, Kusaka Ryokan is a wooden two-story inn with a three-story wing, built in 1910 and expanded in 1921. As one of only a couple of wooden three-story buildings to have stood along the rail line between Himeji and Kinosaki, it is a remarkably rare survivor and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2004. Its sukiya-style tatami parlors and crane- and cloud-shaped openwork windows offer a vivid glimpse of refined Meiji- and Taisho-era inn architecture in Kuchiganaya, the historic silver mining town of Ikuno.