Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A single-storey timber wing of the middle Meiji era in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. It runs south from the townhouse passage and holds the bath and lavatory.

Built in 1795 on an island in a Toyohashi park pond, the Minato Chikushima Benten Shrine is a three-bay tiled hall listed in 2008 with a painted coffered ceiling.

An early Meiji merchant house on the old Seto highway in Owariasahi, the Miyake Family Residence Main House hides a six-room farmhouse plan behind a townhouse face.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse behind the Miyake family's Meiji-era merchant house on the old Seto Kaido, registered in 2022 for the streetscape it preserves.

In Owariasahi, Aichi, the Miyake family's roofed gate and tiled wall front the old Seto highway, marking an early-Meiji dyeing and brewing estate registered in 2022.

The Miyata Residence well house in Inuyama is a late-Meiji Registered Tangible Cultural Property, a small tiled shelter with a pulley hung from its ridge beam.

In Inuyama's castle town, the Miyataké family's 1931 earthen-walled storehouse, registered in 2006, keeps hand-laid cobble footings and a heavy vault-like iron door.

In Inuyama's castle town, this 1930s sukiya house turns on a faithful copy of the famed Kyoto tearoom Yūin. A Registered Cultural Property, it stays a private home.

A 48-meter timber-and-tile wall wraps a residence in Inuyama's castle town. Built in 1931, it is a Registered Cultural Property valued for the historic streetscape.

Built in 1921, this brick storehouse in Gamagōri, Aichi, is a rare survivor, often called Japan's only brick float storehouse, holding the Sangaigasa parade float.

The lower storey of a tahōtō pagoda at Myōgen-in near Nagoya, whose upper level was lost to the 1891 Nōbi earthquake. It now serves as a hall for Dainichi Nyorai.

On the Sakai River in Obu, Aichi, this 1916 stone sluice gate stops floodwater backing up the Myojin River. Built in artificial stone, it was registered in 2021.

The Myojin Sluice Gate in Obu, Aichi, a 1901 registered property, carries a canal beneath a river through twin stone arches built in rare Meiji artificial stone.

At Meiji Mura near Inuyama stands a sentry box from the gate of Tokyo's Akasaka Palace, a National Treasure. Built in 1908, it is a Registered Cultural Property.

Built around 1887 in Kobe, now at Meiji-mura, this registered property pairs a stone-look Western front with a Japanese gabled porch and still serves beef hotpot.

Built in 1909 on the Gakushūin grounds in Tokyo and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this registered property links a private Japanese wing to a Western office wing.

Built in 1907, Kanazawa Prison ranged five cell blocks around an octagonal guardhouse so a warder watched every wing. A timber wing survives at Museum Meiji-mura.

Built in 1907 for Kanazawa Prison and rebuilt at Museum Meiji Mura in 1977, this red-brick gate by Yamashita Keijiro survives from the Five Great Meiji Prisons.

An octagonal guardhouse from Kanazawa Prison, one of Meiji's Five Great Prisons. Five cell wings once radiated from this watch point, now preserved at Meiji Mura.

Just the front-left corner of this 1927 Tokyo bank survives at Meiji-mura: granite, Doric columns and Corinthian pilasters, with a viewing level over Iruka Pond.

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