Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Kuniumi-no-Yakata, the former Mihara County Office, stands within Awaji Farm Park England Hill in Minamiawaji City, Hyogo Prefecture. Built in 1884 (Meiji 17), it is the oldest surviving county office building in Hyogo and the earliest pseudo-Western (gi-yofu) building on Awaji Island. The wooden two-story structure features a gabled tile roof, clapboard siding with imitation cornerstones, and a striking front porch with paired square and round columns supporting a relief-decorated pediment — all expressions of how Meiji-era Japanese carpenters reinterpreted Western architecture. Damaged in the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, the building was carefully reconstructed at its current site in 2007 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.

Discover the Kuroda Seiuemon Shoten Miso Storehouse, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Miki City, Hyogo. Part of an 11-building complex belonging to the oldest surviving hardware wholesaler in Japan's premier tool-making town, this mid-Meiji storehouse offers a rare window into traditional merchant life.

The First Flying Cage at the Oriental White Stork Conservation and Breeding Center in Toyooka, Hyogo—known as the 'Cage of Promise'—is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property where Japan's captive stork breeding program began in 1965. Discover the inspiring history of this facility and the remarkable success story that has brought over 500 storks back to Japan's skies.

Discover the Kobe Golf Club Clubhouse, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on Mt. Rokko designed by W.M. Vories in 1932. Explore the history of Japan's oldest golf course, its refined Western-style architecture, and the legacy of founder A.H. Groom.

Discover the Kobe Golf Club Chamber, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1924 on Mount Rokko. Originally the Thursday Club social hall for Osaka businessmen, this single-story wooden lodge preserves the heritage of Japan's oldest golf course.

Discover the Kobe University Martial Arts Hall, known as Kanteido. Built in 1935 as a dojo for the former Kobe University of Commerce, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property is the university campus’s only modern Japanese-style building and still serves today’s kendo, judo, and karate students.

Completed in 1932, the Kobe University Main Building (formerly Kobe University of Commerce Main Building) is a Romanesque-inspired reinforced concrete structure designed by the Ministry of Education Architecture Division. Featuring scratch-tile cladding and Lombardy band ornamentation, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003 and remains in active use as the home of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

Built in 1904 as the first chapel of Kwansei Gakuin, this red-brick Gothic Revival building designed by British architect M. Wignall has survived wartime bombing and a major earthquake to become a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Featuring a rare hammer-beam truss roof and grapevine-patterned windows, it now serves as a free-admission literature museum showcasing approximately 124 writers connected to Kobe.

Opened in 1963, Kobe Port Tower is the world's first observation tower built with a steel-pipe frame structure. Its graceful hyperboloid form, inspired by the traditional Japanese tsuzumi drum, earned registration as a tangible cultural property in 2014. Following a major 2024 renovation featuring a rooftop deck and rotating café, the tower continues to shine as the iconic symbol of port city Kobe.

Discover Gokurakuji Niomon, an early-Edo two-story temple gate built in 1728 in Taka Town, Hyogo. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring rare Daibutsu-yō details and a striking vase-shaped strut, set against quiet rural mountainsides.

Nestled at the inner edge of Kinosaki Onsen in Toyooka, Hyōgo, the Main Hall of Gokurakuji is a Taishō-era (1921) Zen temple building that blends a traditional six-room hōjō plan with modern glass-paned elements. Linked to the revered Zen master Takuan Sōhō, it was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2015. Visit it alongside the Seikantei karesansui garden, the Dokkosui sacred spring, and the famous seven public bathhouses of Kinosaki.

The north wall of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, runs about 30 metres. Its late-Meiji brick core has a scraped-mortar face and a tiled top.

The 1911 main house of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property with a broad tiled irimoya roof.

The sunagura storehouse of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a plastered two-storey dozo of about 1904, now a Registered Property.

The barn of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a long single-storey timber building of the late Meiji era, now a Registered Property.

The west stone wall of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, runs about 50 metres of late-Meiji granite, laid five courses high with capstones.

The gate of the Konishi Family Residence in Amagasaki, Hyogo, is a late-Meiji timber structure with a tiled gable roof, twin doors and a side wicket door.

Kobayashiya Ryokan is a historic wooden three-story inn along the Ōtani River in Kinosaki Onsen, Toyooka City, Hyōgo Prefecture. Rebuilt in the early Shōwa era and designated a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, it preserves the traditional ryokan layout that supported Kinosaki's communal bathhouse culture. A major 2023 renovation fused its heritage architecture with contemporary design.

Saishō-ji Main Hall in Kamisakabe, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture is a 1722 Jōdo Shinshū Hongan-ji-ha temple hall registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in March 2024. With its seven-by-seven bay irimoya hip-and-gable roof in formal hongawara tile and archaic square pillars at every bay, it stands as a fine example of a mid-sized Pure Land main hall and the historic heart of the old Kamisakabe village community.

Discover the Sanda Gakuen Junior High School Main Building, a beautifully preserved 1912 wooden schoolhouse in Hyogo Prefecture. Designed in Stick Style and modeled after England's Eton College, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property continues to function as an active school more than a century after its completion.