Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

On Nagoya's Horikawa canal, the Former Kato Shokai Building is a 1931 office built by a Siam trader and consul, once the Siam consulate, now a Thai restaurant.

A 1920 timber farmhouse beside the moat of fortified Honsho-ji temple in Anjo, its raised altar room and sermon-ready plan earning national registration in 2024.

In Inuyama, Aichi, this late-Meiji giyofu building once housed a village bank. A dragon ridge tile, a phoenix gable, and a tall hall remain as a registered property.

Behind a Taisho mansion on Nagoya's Cultural Path stands the storehouse of actress Kawakami Sadayakko's former home, a registered reinforced-concrete kura.

A Taisho mansion built for actress Kawakami Sadayakko, restored on Nagoya's Cultural Path with stained glass and period rooms that recall her remarkable life.

An iron turntable of 1927 at Taketoyo Town in Aichi, only 7.5 metres across. Two tracks cross it at right angles, a freight-yard type that survives nowhere else.

A townhouse of 1923 at the eastern edge of the Inuyama castle town in Aichi. Nine rooms fill its upper floor, which began as a low half storey called banko-nikai.

A brick culvert of 1900 beneath the embankment of the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, where a nine-metre shaft and an eleven-metre bore drain a valley.

A 76-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a pilastered portal and a memorial to its builders at the mouth.

A 75-metre brick railway tunnel of 1900 on the abandoned Chuo Line at Kasugai, Aichi, with a stone coping above its portal and a stretcher-bond brick lining.

A 1918 reinforced concrete arch over the Tsuge River in Shinshiro City, Aichi. Its 30.3 metre span was then Japan's longest, and lattice columns carry the deck.

Built in 1929 as a Nagoya Bank branch, the Former Tsushima Shinkin Bank Head Office is an all-concrete provincial bank, registered in 2006 and now free to enter.

Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete block gate in Tokoname, Aichi. Iron lattice leaves slide across a 5.0 meter opening below punched-out lettering.

Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete hall in Tokoname, Aichi: purple tile, triangular roof lanterns, a silver gallery. Registered 2023. Free entry.

Alone in Toyokawa farmland, the Former Toyokawa Telephone Loading Coil Tower is a six-metre concrete relic of the 1928 Tokyo to Kobe line, Japan's first long cable.

An earthen-walled cotton warehouse of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, sharing a continuous covered forespace with its neighbour and lit only from the north.

A packing workshop joined to a two-storey workers' dormitory, built about 1914 in Okada, Chita, and the largest of the six registered structures on the site.

The 1914 head office of a cotton company in Okada, Chita, finished in costly black plaster, crowned with crest tiles and moved to its present site in 1945.

A gate range of about 1914 wrapping two sides of a cotton company's grounds in Okada, Chita, holding storage sheds, a dining room, a bathroom and a kitchen.

A timber boundary wall of about 1914 in Okada, Chita, just 6.2 metres long, its tiled ridge stepping down in three stages to follow the falling ground.