Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1916 on an irregular plot, Nakasada Shoten Daigo Storehouse has a trapezoidal plan and a low koji loft. Registered in 2016, it now holds a brewing museum.

A Meiji-period storehouse on the old Tokaido in Arimatsu, Nagoya. Registered in 2008, it shows black lime plaster, a washed plinth and fire-sealing doors upstairs.

An early Showa outbuilding in Arimatsu, Nagoya, running east of the main house. Its cobble footing, boarded wall and black plaster match the fence. Registered 2008.

An early Showa bracket-arm gate on the north edge of a dyer's property in Arimatsu, Nagoya, facing the Tekoshi River. Only 1.7 meters wide. Registered in 2008.

An 1843 farmhouse on the old Ina Kaido in Toyokawa, with a low tsushi attic, a pantiled gable roof and a sunken mulberry pit. Registered in 2022 and privately owned.

Discover Nakamura Park Memorial Hall, a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1910 in Nagoya. This elegant shoin-zukuri guest house once hosted the Crown Prince and stands as the oldest surviving Meiji-era public wooden building in the city.

An early Meiji tea house moved to Nakamura Park in 1957, Nakamura Park Hoshoken has a main room of four and a half mats plus a daime. Registered in 2017.

Discover the Nagoya Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (Catholic Nunoike Church), a nationally registered tangible cultural property featuring twin 50-meter spires, German and Italian stained glass, and striking exposed-concrete Gothic architecture designed by Yamashita Toshiro in 1962.

Discover the Nagoya Port Bascule Bridge (Nagoya-kō Haneage-bashi), Japan's oldest surviving drawbridge, built in 1927. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Modern Industrial Heritage site stands frozen in time with its span raised at 78 degrees in the heart of Nagoya's historic port district.

Built in 1930 in Tsuruma Park, Nagoya City Public Hall combines round-arched windows and crane-wing reliefs in early steel-framed concrete. Registered in 2020.

A Taisho-era villa in Mizuho Ward, Nagoya. Three wings step westward in echelon, holding a coffered reception room, stained glass and two tea rooms. Garden free.

The thatched front gate at the southeast corner of Tozanso in Nagoya. Knotted log posts, fan-splayed rafters, and a 32-meter wall of flattened bamboo.

A bracket gate inside Tozanso in Nagoya, parting the front garden from the inner one. A 1.2-meter opening under cedar bark, and a 19-meter two-faced wall.

Built in 1914 on the south edge of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this granite gate and 1930 tiled wall were listed in 2007. A new ward quotes its pillars.

At the southeast corner of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this late Taisho service gate carries 55 meters of glazed tile and terracotta. Listed in 2007.

On the south edge of Nagoya University's Tsurumai campus, this 1914 gate keeps two original granite posts under an arch, with a wall refaced in 1930. Listed in 2007.

Completed in 1960 at Nagoya University's Higashiyama campus, this exposed-concrete hall by Maki Fumihiko was listed in 2011, and its clock tower glows blue at night.

Discover Nagoya Ceramic Hall, a 1932 Expressionist landmark registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Explore export ceramics, Art Deco interiors, and Nagoya's ceramic trade history.

The Main Hall of Shichisho Shrine in Nagoya's Minami Ward was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2018. Originally founded in the Heian period with seven deities from Atsuta Shrine, the Taisho-era hall features rare nagare-zukuri architecture with a hinoki-bark roof — a combination that survived WWII bombings and is now extremely rare in Nagoya. Visitors can also enjoy a 1,000-year-old sacred camphor tree and beautiful seasonal goshuin stamps.

Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, is an ancient Shikinaisha listed in the Heian-era Engishiki shrine register. Its Saimon-den, a ceremonial prayer hall built around 1917, features a distinctive intersecting roofline that defines the shrine's sacred frontage. Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2024, this Taisho-era hall is part of a remarkable ensemble of six registered buildings including an exquisitely carved main hall and a charming Benten hall beside a spring-fed pond.