Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This 1929 half-timbered house in Kamakura was built for Marquis Kacho Hironobu. Its French formal garden opens free all year; the interior opens twice a year.

The former Shonan Waterworks booster pump station in Kamakura, a concrete building of 1936 by the Daibutsu Tunnel, has scratch-tiled walls and a geometric stair.

A 1922 wooden villa above Isshiki beach, Hayama, built by constitution drafter Kaneko Kentaro after the imperial household took his seafront plot. Registered 2021.

A two-storey house of about 1940 beside Onshi Matsuso in Hayama, built by Kaneko Kentaro in his eighty-eighth year. Farmhouse below, tea-house above. Registered 2021.

Former Kamakura Library, Kanagawa: a 1936 timber library built by donation after the 1923 quake, with a large gabled roof, gegyo ornaments and green scratch tiles.

The Kamakura villa of film importer Kawakita Nagamasa, built about 1942 with an arched corner porch. Registered in 2021, it is private and closed to visitors.

Dated 1899 and moved in 1933, this 17-square-metre plastered storehouse is the oldest building on its Yokohama plot, kept when the main house was rebuilt.

A small tiled gate with a gently swelling roof stands above stone steps, while seventy metres of tuff laid in Yokohama's Bluff bond wraps this hillside plot.

Built in 1933 as a railway tunnel was bored through the ridge beneath it, this Yokohama house hides a corridor-based modern plan behind a wholly Japanese exterior.

A 1912 wooden Western-style villa beside Ōiso Station, registered in 2012 and thought to be Japan's earliest two-by-four house. It now runs as a restaurant.

Built in 1933 as a Tokyo clinic's Fujisawa branch, this registered property moves air with a raised floor, double bay windows and three monitor roofs on the ridge.

The Former Kondo Residence in Fujisawa, a villa of 1925 by Endo Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, was moved from Tsujido and shows his horizontal style.

The 1895 first-class isolation lodge of the Nagahama Quarantine Station, registered in 2018 and relocated in 2025 to Umi-no-Koen in Yokohama.

The first ward of the Nankoin sanatorium in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, built in 1899, is a weatherboarded ward with pedimented sash windows, seen from a memorial garden.

Built in 1931, Shogenji Kuri is the priests' quarters of a Rinzai temple in Hakone. Registered in 2002, it keeps a central-corridor plan and a formal writing alcove.

Shogenji Hondo in Hakone began around 1904 as banker Imamura Shigezo's villa, was moved here in 1932, and became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2002.

Yugyo-ji's stone and mud walls turn at right angles from the main gate to enclose the forecourt. Its coursed andesite stone wall, about 1.9 metres high, is late Edo work.

Ugajinja, in the far north of the Yugyo-ji precinct, is a shrine of just 3.6 square metres yet dense with carving, the smallest of the temple's ten registered structures.

The Ekodo is a small memorial hall on a rise northwest of Yugyo-ji's Main Hall. Under its pyramidal copper roof sits a raised, finely latticed ceiling. Early Showa work.

Reached by a corridor behind the Obankata, Yugyo-ji's Small Shoin served official duties and guest receptions, its two rows of rooms ending in alcove-fitted inner rooms.

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