Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1927 timber schoolhouse in the Aichi mountain hamlet of Damine, this Registered Cultural Property was preserved by a seismic retrofit and used until 2024.

On Ama City's old Kamakura Road stands the four-legged Zen-style gate of a Nichiren temple. Registered in 2005, this mid-Edo gate survived the 1891 Nobi earthquake.

Once a Shingon fire-ritual hall, now a Nichiren temple near Nagoya, this registered wooden hall keeps an old Nichiren-hall plan under a pyramidal tiled roof.

At Jissō-ji, a Rinzai temple in Nishio, Aichi, the kuri was kitchen and living hall. Rebuilt in the Genroku era, it frames a beam-spanned room over an earthen floor.

Jissō-ji's hōjō in Nishio is a large early-Edo Zen abbot's hall at the Kira family temple. Restored with a copper roof, it is now a Nishio City cultural property.

Shibata Family Residence Main House in Kiyosu, Aichi, is an 1896 candy merchant's townhouse on the Minoji road, registered in 2006. Crossed beams and annual opening.

Added in 1893 beside its older neighbour in the former Narumi post town of Nagoya, Naka Storehouse joins under a dropped roof and hides an iron tie in its frame.

Built in 1891 in the old Narumi post town of Nagoya, the black-plastered two-storey Momiji Storehouse of the Shimozato Chiyokura house was registered in 2024.

Standing at the entrance of Jakkō-in Temple on Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi, this elegant single-bay yakuimon-style gate was built in 1836 by Takenaka Izumi Masatoshi, an official master carpenter of the Owari domain. Adorned with a charming group-of-monkeys carving, dragon reliefs, and peony wing-supports, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. Set within Owari's celebrated 'Maple Temple,' the gate offers visitors a vivid encounter with late-Edo temple architecture.

Standing on the slopes of Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, the Zuigudō of Jakkō-in is an elegant Edo-period prayer hall built in 1805. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it preserves the rare features of a kagodō — a hall for sustained devotional practice — with residence-style shitomido shutters and a veranda wrapping all four sides. Dedicated to Daizuigu Bosatsu, the deity who responds to wishes, the hall sits within Owari's celebrated maple temple landscape.

Tucked into the mountainside grounds of Jakkō-in—the famed Maple Temple of Owari in Inuyama, Aichi—this miniature Bentendō is a hexagonal wooden hall built around 1820, with a footprint of just three square meters. Enshrining a Benzaiten venerated for forging bonds of love and good fortune, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005 and stands as a rare and beautifully crafted small-scale hall of late-Edo religious architecture.

Discover Jakkō-in Hondō, a registered cultural property in Inuyama, Aichi. Rebuilt in 1879, this graceful main hall sits on Mt. Tsugao surrounded by 1,000 maple trees, blending Buddhist tradition with stunning seasonal beauty.

Discover the Shujo Family Residence Stone-Built Embankment in Tokai City, Aichi — a 76-meter Taishō-era seawall built using Hattori Chōshichi's renowned 'artificial stone' (jinzōseki) technique. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this rare survivor preserves the engineering legacy of Meiji–Taishō Japan along the Ise Bay shoreline near Jurakuen Park and the Great Buddha.

The largest of Shunkoin's seven registered buildings, this 1933 kuri held the kitchen and priest's quarters, with a modern corridor plan and bold beamwork.

Built in 1830, the same year as the main hall, this single-bay yakui-mon faces north onto the old road. Bracketing and a carved gable strut give it character.

The most decorative of Shunkoin's seven buildings, this 1865 bell tower sits on a river-stone base, with bracketing, fan rafters, and a painted coffered ceiling.

The smallest of the seven, this late-Meiji tea room is barely four mats. Tradition credits it to local master Shimomura Mitsuyoshi, and bamboo runs throughout.

Built in 1936 and the only copper-roofed building of the seven, Furokaku hides a refined sukiya interior behind a plain shell, with polished-log posts.

This late-Edo entrance and shoin reflect a move: local accounts say the reception wing came in 1879 from the home of Takeda Shokuro, founder of Arimatsu shibori.

Rebuilt in 1830, Shunkoin's main hall takes the six-room hojo form under a hip-and-gable roof. It faces north, and its image is Tahonyorai, rare in Soto Zen.