Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover the Seto Eisen Church Chapel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1900 in Seto City, Aichi. This charming wooden chapel blends Western and Japanese architectural techniques and remains an active place of worship today.

A late Edo reception wing at Zengyoji in Nagoya, registered in 2018. Its shikidai porch, lattice gable and cusped windows mark a temple that received guests of rank.

Zengyoji Temple Main Gate in Nagoya is a four-legged gate of 1755, dated by a surviving ridge tablet naming its carpenter. Stacked arched beams; registered in 2018.

Built around 1896 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Bell Tower packs Zen-style bracketing and fan rafters into 7.6 square metres on a rough stone base. Registered 2018.

Late Edo in date, Zengyoji Temple Drum Tower carries a pyramidal turret off-centre on a gabled roof and began life as a storehouse below. Registered in 2018.

The smallest of six registered buildings at Zengyoji in Nagoya, this pavilion shelters a stone basin inscribed 1743, older than its Showa roof by two centuries.

Built in 1706 in Nagoya, Zengyoji Temple Main Hall omits the columns of its outer worship area beneath a latticed coffered ceiling. Registered in 2018.

Built in 1689, Sennenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Inuyama, Aichi, is a 21-meter gable-entry kuri with formal rooms west, family rooms east. Registered 2007.

Sennenji Temple Main Hall in Inuyama, Aichi, was built in 1673. Its Jodo-sect plan of veranda, outer and inner sanctuaries survives, and it was registered in 2007.

Zenryuji Temple Entrance Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, was built in 1898. Three rooms in a row, a curved gable at the centre, one coffered ceiling for the formal room.

Zenryuji Temple Main Gate in Okazaki, Aichi, is an early Meiji koraimon. It spans 3.2 metres, with a low roofline and copper-faced doors below a heavy lattice.

Zenryuji Temple Shichimen Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, is a late Edo hall to the deity Shichimen. Narrow and deep, it carries bracketed, polychrome work at the sanctuary.

Zenryuji Temple Main Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, dates from 1734. This 184-square-metre Nichiren hall holds a Zen-style altar platform, and was registered in 2015.

Sogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nagoya, built in 1866 by master carpenter Ito Heizaemon VIII, has a columnless outer sanctuary and full coffered ceiling. Visiting tips.

Standing on the mid-slope of historic Mount Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, Sōsuikan is a refined single-story wooden zashiki hall built in 1888 as a guest reception facility and later owned by the Owari Tokugawa family. Restored to its original 1888 appearance in 2022 and registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025, the hipped-roof, tile-roofed building with its formal shikidai entrance offers visitors a graceful encounter with Meiji-era hospitality architecture.

Hidden within the lush grounds of Tokugawa Garden in Nagoya stands Sosanso, a graceful single-story wooden villa built in 1937 as a guesthouse for the Pan-Pacific Peace Exposition and relocated to the garden the same year. Lavishly constructed with the finest Kiso cypress timber, it miraculously survived World War II, served as a wedding hall, and now welcomes visitors as a tea room. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2014.

A two-story earthen storehouse of the early Taisho era behind a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with white plaster walls and black doors, registered in 2004.

A sake merchant's townhouse of 1913 on Honmachi Street in Inuyama, with a lattice front and a plastered upper story, registered as a cultural property in 2004.

A tea room of the early Taisho era in the back garden of a sake merchant's house in Inuyama, with polished log posts and lath windows, registered in 2004.

The Taki Gakuen Auditorium, completed in 1933 and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2001, stands on the active campus of Taki Junior and Senior High School in Konan City, Aichi Prefecture. Designed by Murase Kuninosuke for the school's founder Taki Shinshiro and built by the Ando-gumi firm of Nagoya, this reinforced-concrete hall combines an austere, near-modernist exterior with the symbolic dignity of a triple-arched entrance and a pediment-shaped gable. Carefully renovated in 2023, it remains in daily ceremonial use and can be visited by advance reservation.