Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Kawachi Photo Studio in Nabari, Mie, built in 1921 on a corner, has a triangular gable and turret ornaments; its first studio room was under a glass roof.

Built in 1888 as Ueno's police station and a model for police offices across Mie, this registered timber building in Iga reopened in 2026 as a free ceramics gallery.

A 44-metre dry-stone boundary wall of the late Edo period at Komagano in Watarai, Mie. Undressed local stone, a clipped maki hedge above, registered in 2016.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of the late Edo period at Komagano in Watarai, Mie. Boarded walls, a white plaster band, an okiyane roof; registered in 2016.

An 1889 merchant house on Nabari's Hase highway, with a 15.8-metre frontage, plastered loft and lattice window. Registered in 2013, it fronts the Jikon brewery.

A 1916 timber village hall in Geino, Tsu, with weatherboarding, sash windows and a corner porch. Saved from demolition, repaired in 2017, open free at weekends.

A two-storey reinforced concrete post office of 1932 on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie. Built as the Kakino Post Office, it was registered in 2011.

A single-storey timber post office of 1931 in Tsu, Mie. Its L-shaped plan sets the working space east and the night duty rooms west. Registered in 2019.

A Meiji-era two-storey villa wing in Yokkaichi, Mie, built for spinning magnate Ito Denshichi X. Its east-facing carriage porch survives; registered in 2010.

A detached tatami parlour of around 1955 at the Former Ito Denshichi Villa in Yokkaichi, Mie. Ten and six mat rooms, alcove joinery; registered in 2010.

Built in 1934 above Ago Bay for a retired insurance manager, this Shima City house sets formal Japanese reception rooms beside a lacquered coffered-ceiling study.

A 1932 detached guest wing of a Nabari restaurant inn: four tatami rooms and a Western room, each with its own front door, under split-bamboo and colored clay walls.

A 1936 banquet block of a Nabari restaurant inn: a Western dance hall with Chinese details below, a 44-tatami hall with a coved coffered ceiling above it.

A 1923 yakuimon gate of a Nabari restaurant inn, 2.6 meters wide, framed in knotty logs under a hip-and-gable tile roof. Visible from the road; grounds are private.

A 1936 tea room of 12 square meters at a Nabari restaurant inn: four mats, no hearth, a wide alcove with a curved bark-on post and a split wicker and bamboo ceiling.

The 1936 family house of a Nabari restaurant inn: copper-edged eaves, a kozama-shaped lattice window, curved cut-outs in the corridor walls, and a Western room.

The 1923 core of a Nabari restaurant inn: two storeys, a gabled tile roof, kitchen and guest rooms below, tatami rooms upstairs behind a river-side wall of glass.

The 1923 bath and toilet block of a Nabari restaurant inn: a hipped and gabled tile roof, post-free corridors of log rafters, and an artificial stone basin.

Early Meiji farmhouse moved to Hattaino, Tsu, in 1897–1906: an east earth floor, a staggered six-room plan and a fine guest room and altar room on the west side.

A c.1905 long house in Tsu, 19 m long and first used to raise silkworms: four rooms off an earth-floored passage and two levels inside, moved here around 1955.

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