Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
登 録 有 形 文 化 財Browse Japan’s Registered Tangible Cultural Properties nationwide. Filter by prefecture, period, and category, with concise stories, maps, and practical travel tips.
In Narashino, Chiba, an eight-square-meter roof over a well holds a national cultural property listing, registered in 2003 within a grain wholesaler's compound.
Built in 1891 to hold grain, this two-story earthen kura survives from a Tsudanuma merchant's estate in Narashino, with battened siding and bold interior beams.
In Narashino, Chiba, the Hirose Family Residence Main House preserves a late-Edo grain merchant's rooms and Boso farmhouse details, built by a temple carpenter.
Near Tokyo in Narashino, the Hirose family's 1909 grain warehouse is a Registered Cultural Property built without earthen walls, using densely set, board-clad posts.
In Tateyama, Chiba, the Beniya Store residence sits beside a shop made from an earthquake-surviving storehouse. From about 1926, it is a registered property.
After the 1923 earthquake levelled his shop, a Tateyama hardware merchant rebuilt in 1924 from a relocated storehouse, now the area's last quake-era kura shop.
In Chonan, central Chiba, a small Meiji storehouse held the Hoshino pharmacy's dispensary. Registered with the shop and gate, it looks much as in 1895.
The Hoshino Family Pharmacy in Chōnan, Chiba, is a Meiji-era black-plastered earthen shop on a former post-town street, still selling medicine after a century.
A wooden 1866 gate fronting a pharmacy that has served Chonan's old post town for 300 years, its angled wing walls forming a forecourt to welcome travelers.
Built in 1871 by the Edo River, this Noda wharf merchant's house keeps three boat-inn rooms upstairs and a flood-gated brick wall—a rare relic of river trade.
On Noda's old Edo-River wharf, the Masuda family's early-Showa storehouse hides earthen walls behind mortar scored to mimic stone, a relic of lost river trade.
In Noda, a former Edo River shipping family kept a Fudo Myo-o shrine under a square meter, built with the carpentry of a real shrine hall. Exterior view only.
In Noda, Chiba, a brick wall once doubled as flood defense: grooves at its ends held boards to dam the Edo River, fronting a Meiji-era river merchant's home.
A small tiled gate at a river-wharf merchant's house on the Edogawa in Noda, surviving beside a brick flood wall as a rare trace of the river's lost boat trade.
At a Nagareyama temple stands the Matsugaoka Type 1 Street Lamp, a fluted concrete post residents built to light their 1950s estate, the last of its kind intact.
A former post-town hatago lodging house of about 1897 in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020, whose heavy frame and front shutters recall its original use.
A small but finely finished Meiji reception wing east of the former Maruya hatago in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020.
A small 1919 earthen storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, built for the family's belongings, with a grid of vents in the upper floor against damp.
A 1907 rice storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, now holding casks as a soy sauce store; its change of use records how the brewery grew.
The 1892 main house of a soy sauce brewing family in Futtsu, Chiba: a hipped-roof home with an alcove reception room, set among storehouses. Registered 2007.
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