Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

An 1893 tea room in Kanie, Aichi, built under the design guidance of Yoshida Shokei of Omotesenke. Four and a half mats, 35 square meters. Registered 2011, closed.

A single-storey timber shed in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1909 to hold a three-tier festival float. Its 7-metre eaves and 4.55-metre frontage follow the float.

A mid-Meiji machiya at the junction of two old highways in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2004. Its plot still follows a late Edo castle map showing a notice board.

The Yoshino Family Residence in Inuyama, Aichi, had five buildings listed in 2013, and all were struck from the register on 10 February 2026 after demolition.

Attached behind Ryusenji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 1931 annexe steps up from tablet hall to founder's hall. Carpenter Nakamura Keizo. Registered in 2013.

At Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, an 1822 hall holding thirty-three Kannon images shares its posts and wall with a 1935 room built for serving tea to worshippers.

Ryusenji's kuri in Shinshiro, Aichi, dates from 1843. Four rooms lie north of the great central pillar; the kitchen occupies what was once the earth-floored half.

Built in 1955 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this open bell tower of 6.7 square metres has inward-leaning chamfered posts, bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.

Built in 1820 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 124-square-metre hall keeps carved rainbow beams and transoms of cloud dragons and lions. Registered in 2013.

Built in 1878 as an exposition appraisal hall in Nagoya and used as Emperor Meiji's temporary seat, this timber hall moved to Atsuta Shrine in 1968. Registered 2001.

Kawabun's 1950 gate and 25 metres of roofed wall front Uonotana-dori in Nagoya, registered in 2005. Added eaves lend rank to a frame only 3.9 metres wide.

A detached room of 1950 to 1952 behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, registered in 2005. The 10-mat room covers 63 square metres, the corridor leading to it 52.

Built in 1937, registered in 2005: a 132-square-metre concrete kitchen behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, and the oldest of the compound's five listings.

Yoyotei at the Kawabun restaurant in Nagoya: a 21 square metre timber pavilion of 1950 to 1952, listed 2005. Round log posts, a kakekomi ceiling, and visiting.

Built in 1763 beside the main hall of Renkyo-ji in Nagoya, this priests' quarters keeps the plain look of a working Edo-period temple. Registered in 2017.

This 1812 four-legged gate before the main hall of Renkyo-ji in Nagoya is worked with carving, and a 23-metre plastered wall lines the approach. Registered in 2017.

Linked to Renkyo-ji's main hall in Nagoya, this 1812 shoin holds a raised guest room with a built-in desk and coffered ceiling. Registered in 2017 as a model of its type.

Standing on the quiet hilltop of Takabari in Meitō Ward, Nagoya, the Renkyō-ji Bell Tower is a small but exquisite wooden structure built in 1882. Featuring a hip-and-gable tile roof, splayed round columns, a deeply coffered ceiling, and charming turtle carvings on its gables, this Meiji-era treasure was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017. Set within the precincts of a temple whose history reaches back over a thousand years, it offers travellers a tranquil encounter with traditional Japanese craftsmanship.

Renkyō-ji Main Hall, set on a quiet wooded hill in eastern Nagoya's Meitō Ward, is the principal worship hall of a Shinshū Takada-ha temple founded by tradition over a thousand years ago. Built in 1758 with a hipped tile roof and a generous 5-by-5-bay plan, it features a distinctive drum-towered entrance and a textbook Pure Land Buddhist interior of outer sanctuary, inner sanctuary, side rooms, and rear hall. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2017 along with five other temple buildings, it preserves an unusually complete Edo-period Shin Buddhist precinct within modern Nagoya.

At the south-east corner of Renkei-ji in Agui, Aichi, this east-facing great gate of 1896 rests on unusually dense packed bracketry. Registered nationally in 2013.

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