Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Umebijin Sake Brewery Office in Yawatahama, Ehime, is a tiled 1931 shop-office registered in 2004. Granite rustication, sash windows, a parapet, and how to visit.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Residence Main House in Yawatahama, Ehime, dates from 1916. Its south gable is mortar scored to imitate stone for the passing street.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Brewing House in Yawatahama, Ehime, dates from 1916. Two halls meet in a T: a koji room upstairs, a pressing room below the corner.

Built in 1884 as a police station, moved in 1953 to serve as a town hall and returned in 1992, this Uwajima museum was the first building listed in Ehime.

The Ehime Prefectural Education Hall in Matsuyama City is a three-story wooden building constructed in 1937, designed by prefectural architect Asaka Ryōsuke. Blending Western architectural styles with traditional Japanese decorative elements, it exemplifies early Shōwa-period design and was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2003.

Completed in 1929, the Ehime Prefectural Office Main Building is a Western-style reinforced concrete structure designed by architect Kigo Shichirō. Featuring a distinctive H-shaped plan crowned with a domed tower, marble interiors, and elegant chandeliers, it is the third-oldest prefectural office still in active use by a governor in Japan. It was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2021.

A late Meiji rendered timber office in Kawanoishi, Yawatahama, its door set into a chamfered corner, listed in 1999 and still used by the silkworm egg firm.

Built in 1919 at Kawanoishi in Yawatahama, this three-storey timber hall reared silkworms under a king-post truss, its street wall all board doors and glass above.

This two-storey hall of 1919 stands a full storey above its neighbour on the Kawanoishi slope, divided from it by a brick firewall that breaks the tiled roofline.

Located in Kanou-cho, Shikokuchuo City, Ehime Prefecture, the Onishi Internal Medicine Clinic Examination Building is a single-story wooden medical building constructed in the early Taisho period (1912-1925). Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2001, it exemplifies the giyofu (pseudo-Western) architectural style with its traditional irimoya tiled roof above Western-style clapboard walls. Decorative blind fanlights and a covered carriage entrance reflect the unique character of provincial modern medical architecture in Japan.

Located in Sugata-machi, Ozu City, Ehime Prefecture, the Ono Family Residence Nagayamon Gate is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built before 1857. Distinguished by its asymmetric roof combining hip-and-gable and gable forms, a raised monitor roof, and a finely composed lattice façade, it stands as one of southern Ehime's most impressive surviving long-house gates.

Built in 1927 as a retirement house, the Ochi Family Residence Sukiya in Saijo, Ehime was registered in 2002 for its exemplary design, coffered and woven ceilings.

The Ochi Family Residence Tea House in Saijo, Ehime, called Shoin, is a 15-square-metre tea room of 1927, registered in 2002 for its exacting small-room design.

The Ochi Family Residence Shop and Dwelling in Saijo, Ehime is a late Edo merchant house registered in 2002. Its omoteya-zukuri front faces the old port road.

Spanning the Kojoro River gorge in Niihama City, Ehime Prefecture, Otoshi Bridge is one of Japan's oldest surviving steel arch bridges. Built in 1905 with German Burbach steel as a combined road bridge and drainage channel for the legendary Besshi Copper Mine, this 48-metre spandrel-braced single-arch structure is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Standing silently in a deep mountain gorge, it remains a vivid witness to the industrial heritage that powered Japan's modernization.

Tucked into a quiet ravine along the Koyabu River in Ozu City, Ehime Prefecture, Koyabu Onsen Honkan is a rare three-story wooden hot spring inn from the Taisho era. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2000, this irimoya-roofed tower-style ryokan is still a working inn, offering silky alkaline waters renowned as a beautifying bath and a vivid glimpse of Japan's traditional toji-ba bathing culture.

Quietly standing within the precincts of Chōraku-ji Temple in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, the Kagiya Kana Shōkōdō (Kagiya Kana Memorial Hall) was built in 1929 to honor the achievements of Kagiya Kana, a woman who created Iyo-kasuri, one of Japan's three great kasuri textiles. Designed by the renowned architect Kigo Shichirō, who also created the famous Bansui-sō and the Ehime Prefectural Government Main Building, this distinctive reinforced-concrete octagonal hall is supported by eight entasis columns and traditional bracket sets, beautifully fusing Eastern and Western architectural sensibilities. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2001.

Built in 1917 on the western shore of Yuge Island in Kamijima Town, Ehime Prefecture, this two-story wooden home is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. With its iri-moya tiled roof and tsushi-nikai second floor, it inherits the architectural traditions of folk dwellings of the Seto Inland Sea islands. Together with the property's storehouse and gate, it preserves the historic streetscape of an island port town.

Discover the Kami-Yuge Tasaka Family Residence Storehouse on Yuge Island, Ehime—a 1917 dozō-style earthen-walled warehouse and Registered Tangible Cultural Property that preserves the traditional townhouse landscape of a Seto Inland Sea port settlement.

Built in 1917 in the port settlement of Kami-Yuge on Yuge Island in the Seto Inland Sea, this gabled tile-roofed gate and earthen wall preserve the streetscape of an early 20th-century island town. Together with the residence's main house and storehouse, they were registered as Tangible Cultural Properties in 2019.

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