Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A shrine office of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. At 69 square metres it is the largest of the 6 buildings here, and its plan reads like a house.

A worship hall of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Open on all 4 sides, it shows its brackets, doubled rafters and latticed coffered ceiling.

A screen fence of about 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Only 3.3 metres long, it blocks the sightline along the approach, a form particular to Owari.

A Buddhist hall of 1865 beside a spring-fed pond in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. The oldest building here, with a pyramidal roof and a painted ceiling.

A one-bay sanctuary of 1917 in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. Just 5.2 square metres, it stacks a dormer gable over a cusped canopy and is carved throughout.

Completed in 1932 as the main building of the former Nanzan Junior High School, Reiners Hall was designed by Swiss architect Max Hinder. Featuring distinctive ochre terrazzo walls and unique triangular parapet cutouts, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 1998. Today it houses the Nanzan Archives, preserving the history of one of Japan's leading Catholic educational institutions.

Discover the Iwase Bunko Storehouse in Nishio, Aichi — a nationally registered tangible cultural property built around 1919. This striking brick archive once protected over 80,000 rare books and stands as a symbol of one philanthropist's devotion to public learning.

A registered cultural property in Nishio, Aichi, this small wooden hall opened around 1925 as the Iwase Bunko children's library, its windows set low for children.

Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Main House, a late-Meiji brewer's townhouse on the old Tokaido in Toyohashi registered in 2014: six-room plan, lattice, eaves.

Nishikomaya Tamura Family Residence Storehouse, a late-Meiji earthen-walled vault behind a brewer's house in Toyohashi, registered in 2014: plaster front, boarding.

Built in 1934 as the joint sales office of the Japan Ceramics Industry Federation, this reinforced concrete office building in Nagoya's Higashi Ward features lavish ceramic tile and travertine interiors with refined Art Deco detailing. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, it stands as a testament to Nagoya's historic role as Japan's largest ceramics export hub.

A 1958 Registered Tangible Cultural Property on Nagoya's Sakura-dori. The Yamashita office gave this modernist block ribbon windows, brown tile, and a curving stair.

Discover the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Okazaki Church in Aichi Prefecture, a 1953 wooden church designed by the Vories Architectural Office. Registered as a national tangible cultural property, this charming building features a distinctive red-tiled roof, white walls, and a cross-topped spire.

The Japan Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a wooden chapel designed by the Vories Architectural Office and completed in 1953. Rebuilt on Easter Sunday to replace a predecessor lost in wartime air raids, it is the only surviving Vories-designed building in Nagoya and was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2012. Its exposed scissors truss roof and iconic cruciform window exemplify the clear, dignified design that defines this architectural gem.

Nyoiji's 1826 four-legged gate in rural Toyota faces the main hall. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, its bracketing and frog-leg struts are pure late Edo.

Nyoiji Shoin in Toyota City, Aichi, began in the late Edo period as a temporary worship hall, later refashioned into a reception room with a raised upper floor.

A small Edo-period bell tower at a Pure Land temple east of Toyota, Nyoiji Shoro was built around 1755 and registered in 2013, with a fine mirror ceiling inside.

At Nyoiji, a Pure Land temple in Toyota, Aichi, a drum turret rises from a low hall with a drum hung inside, registered as a late-Edo cultural property in 2013.

The Main Hall of Nyoi-ji Temple in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, is a grand Jōdo Shinshū worship hall built around 1823. With its seven-bay facade, hip-and-gable tiled roof, ornate double rainbow beam gable decoration, and raised coffered ceiling in the inner sanctuary, it represents the fully matured form of Shin Buddhist temple architecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.

The Nogi Warehouse, an early Meiji brick powder magazine inside Nagoya Castle, was registered in 1997. In 1945 it sheltered 1,047 palace paintings from the air raid.