Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Sixth Storehouse ends the row, its only single-story warehouse. Built in 1900 of stone over timber, with sliding doors front and back. Registered in 2006.

Rising along the Sosei River in central Sapporo, the Sapporo Church of the United Church of Christ in Japan (formerly Sapporo Methodist Episcopal Church) is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1904. Built of local Sapporo soft stone over a wooden frame, its charming octagonal bell tower blends Romanesque and Gothic elements. This guide traces the church's origins in the Meiji era, when students inspired by William S. Clark founded Hokkaido's first Methodist community, and introduces its architectural highlights and nearby attractions.

Built in 1918 as the Hakodate sales office of Asano Cement, led by the legendary industrialist Asano Soichiro known as Japan's Cement King, this Western-style wooden building features an elegant European-inspired facade with tower-like projections, a fanlight entrance, and a balcony. Constructed by master carpenter Muraki Jinzaburo, who also built the Old Hakodate Ward Public Hall, the building was faithfully restored from a single historical photograph after years of abandonment, earning registration as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Built in 1950, the Hakodate Park Kodomo no Kuni Aerial Ferris Wheel is Japan's oldest operating Ferris wheel, designated as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019. Standing 10 meters tall with an octagonal wheel and open-air bench-style gondolas, it offers views of the Tsugaru Strait and Mount Hakodate. Experience the nostalgic charm of the Showa era at this beloved retro amusement park within historic Hakodate Park.

Discover the Hakodate Chinese Memorial Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the only remaining late Qing Dynasty-style building in Japan. Built in 1910 by overseas Chinese merchants, this brick Guandi temple features exquisite nail-free construction and lavish interiors.

The Hakodate YWCA Hall in Shōin-chō, Hakodate, Hokkaido, is a wooden residence built around 1926 in the upscale 'Bunka-mura' (Culture Village) district. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2016, it features a distinctive asymmetrical façade with half-timbered green gable decorations and pale pink clapboard walls, crowned by a porch that blends Japanese karahafu curves with Western Doric columns. Still actively used as the Hakodate YWCA headquarters, it offers a café, community programs, and a window into early Showa-era suburban life.

Discover the Hinoki Shinyaku Rusutsu Mountain Lodge, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hokkaido designed by legendary architect Seiichi Shirai in 1972, featuring distinctive brickwork and sculptural interiors at the foot of Mount Shiribetsu.

Discover Prairie House (Former Sada Residence), a 1928 Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hakodate's Motomachi district. Designed by Tanoue Yoshiya, a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright, this Wrightian residence features striking geometric windows and deep horizontal eaves.

Built in 1901 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this former Sapporo college classroom sets a pilastered, pedimented front against plain hipped wings.

Built in 1902 to Chujo Seiichiro's design, this compact two-story brick library stack rewards a close look at its clinker base and stepped gable coping.

Built in 1902 by Chujo Seiichiro, this T-shaped timber reading hall wears two rooftop lanterns and windows crowned by alternating triangular and segmental pediments.

By Mankei Pond below Mount Soranuma, this 1928 log lodge was designed by Swiss architect Max Hinder at Prince Chichibu's wish. It sleeps up to thirty in Alpine style.

Inside the Hokkaido University Botanic Garden stands the former home of John Batchelor, the Ainu-studies missionary: a trim clapboard house of 1898, moved here in 1905.

In Hokkaido University's Tomakomai forest, this 1935 former specimen store joins a buttressed, chapel-like block to a barn-like wing with a gambrel roof and dormers.

The office of Hokkaido University's Botanic Garden is the east wing of the old zoology-botany hall of 1901, moved here in 1942, its entrance crowned by a pediment.

Furukawa Memorial Hall of 1909 was the forestry classroom of Tohoku Imperial University's agriculture college: a Renaissance timber hall with a mansard roof and turret.

In Nibutani, Biratori, the former Munro Residence was the anthropologist's own home and clinic, a three-story mansard-roofed clapboard house, now a research base.

The Izumi Family Residence Zashiki in Hirogawa Town, Wakayama Prefecture, is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1904. Built by the eighth-generation head of the Izumi maritime merchant family, this elegant guest hall features exceptional craftsmanship and high-quality materials, with its white plastered gable walls contributing to the historic Hiro district townscape. It is a constituent cultural property of the Japan Heritage site 'Hyakusei no Ando.'

Discover the Itani Family Residence Incense Waterwheel Shed in Susami, Wakayama Prefecture—a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property preserving the vanishing tradition of waterwheel-powered incense production in Japan's Kii Peninsula.

The Ueda family's main house, built around 1929 on the Kinokawa's south bank in Hashimoto, Wakayama, pairs a traditional hipped roof with a quietly modernised plan.