Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Imao Family Residence Yakushido in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, is a Buddhist hall dedicated to the Medicine Buddha, located within the compound of a family that served as official physicians to the Tsubouchi feudal lords. Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2007, it uniquely embodies the harmony between medical practice and spiritual devotion in traditional Japanese culture.

Standing on Ichinomachi Street in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Sake Brewery Main Building was rebuilt in 1906 after a great fire by relocating an older Wada family townhouse from a nearby village. Its eleven-ken-long lattice facade anchors one of central Japan's most beautiful historic streetscapes, and it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. The building still serves as the working shop and residence of the Kaba Sake Brewery, founded in 1704.

Standing along Ichinomachi-dōri in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu Prefecture, the Kaba Shuzōjō Sodegura is a two-story Meiji-era sake warehouse built in 1906. Part of the Kaba family's brewery (founded in 1704), this white-plastered dozō with its vertical wood lap-siding is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2007 and a defining element of one of Japan's most beloved traditional townscapes.

The Uedaya main house faces the old Nakasendo in Ochiai-juku. Its early-Meiji upper floor, thrust out on beams above latticed windows, marks a post-town official's home.

This 1904 dozo storehouse stands beside the Uedaya main house on the old Nakasendo, its street wall finished in sea-cucumber tiling below and black lime plaster above.

Behind the Uedaya shopfront in Ochiai-juku, this early-Meiji detached wing faces the garden, its raised parlor framing the view above a thick-walled miso cellar below.

The shamusho of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine sits on a former Kiso River island in Gifu. This early-Showa office shows fine carpentry and joined the register in 2007.

A steeply arched stone drum bridge of 1936 crosses the pond before the worship hall at Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine. Carved railings render timber forms in stone.

The purification pavilion at Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine fills seven square metres, packing chamfered posts and carved beam-ends into one bay. An early-Showa work.

The great torii of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine rises 8.2 metres, its timber frame sheathed in copper. Raised in 1935, it carries the plain Shinmei form at rare scale.

A banpei screens the worship hall, a feature of old Owari shrines. This rare stone example of 1937, carved with dragons and lions, recalls Kawashima's Owari past.

The Heiden (offering hall) of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine in Kakamigahara, Gifu Prefecture, was completed in 1929 (Showa 4). This single-story wooden structure with copper-plate roofing measures three bays square in an irimoya-zukuri tsumairi style and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. Together with the surrounding shrine buildings from the same period, it stands as a valuable example of early Showa rural shrine architecture marked by restrained yet dignified craftsmanship.

The Main Hall of Kaminoshima Shinmei Shrine in Kakamigahara City, Gifu Prefecture, is a finely crafted wooden sanctuary built in 1928 in the hamaen-tsuki ichigensha nagare-zukuri style. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007, it showcases superb carvings of auspicious dragons and clouds that exemplify early Showa shrine architecture.

North wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, an early-Showa addition to the main house holding the kitchen, topped by a gabled roof vent, part of the estate core.

North storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, an early-Showa wooden building said by tradition to have housed the household staff, in exposed-pillar work.

Single-story main house of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, built late Taisho by tile maker and first mayor Sato Teiji, with veranda and moon-viewing platform.

Two-story clay-walled storehouse of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, on a three-course granite base, namako plaster below, black plaster above, hinged gable doors.

Small west outbuilding of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a late-Taisho wooden building said to have been a live-in study, its entrance finished to echo the annex.

East wing of the Kamiyama Residence in Tajimi, a Japanese-style annex by the main house, its tiled bay-windowed room answering the estate's landmark Western annex.

The Former Suda Dental Clinic, located along the Enako River in Takayama's Sakura-machi district, is a two-story wooden building from the late Taisho period (1919–1926). Featuring Western-style design on the ground floor and Japanese-style rooms above, with distinctive clapboard siding and tall windows, it stands as a rare example of Taisho-era Western architecture amid Takayama's traditional townhouses. It was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2021.

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.

UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.