Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Berry Hall of Aoyama Gakuin in Shibuya, Tokyo, built in 1931 on the central rotary, is a Neo-Gothic hall with a chapel wing, buttresses and pointed arches.
A late Edo document storehouse in Chofu, Tokyo, joined to the main house by a small room, with earthen walls, a gabled roof and plastered shutters. Registered 2014.
A mid-Meiji silkworm rearing house in Chofu, Tokyo, ringed by glazed doors over clapboard. Converted after the war, it keeps its first roof frame. Registered 2014.
A late Edo farmhouse in Irumacho, Chofu, Tokyo, with a hipped thatched roof under sheet metal, an earth-floored doma and five raised rooms. Registered in 2014.
An early Showa house in Shinjuku, Tokyo, with a Japanese wing of rare woods and a Western wing of French tiles, rustication and scratch tile. Registered in 2013.
A mid-Meiji grain storehouse in Chofu, Tokyo, facing the main house across the yard, with washed mortar walls and the family house name on a gable. Registered 2014.
A mid-Meiji garden gate and board fence in Chofu, Tokyo, dividing front yard from main garden. The gate is 1.5 m wide and the wall 8.5 m long. Registered 2014.
The Igusa Kindergarten Building in Suginami, Tokyo, is a 1933 timber schoolhouse with an L-shaped plan around its hall. Registered in 2017, it is still in daily use.
The Ikegami Family Residence in Setagaya, Tokyo, is a 1932 Western-style house with Spanish tiles, a sunroom and Art Deco rooms. Registered in 2006; a private home.
Built around 1915 in Bunkyo Ward and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2025, this timber house pairs Japanese rooms with a Western wing. Not open.
Registered in 2018, Isago Family Nagaya is a five-unit timber row house of c.1932 on the Kishimojin approach in Zoshigaya, Tokyo, with an ochre metal-banded front.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Zatsugura in Fussa, Tokyo: a c.1898 former rice store on the street with a floating tiled roof, its upper floor a free brewing history museum.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Shingura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1898 two-storey earthen storehouse 35 meters long on the street, with a floating metal roof, now used to age sake.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Nagayamon Gate in Fussa, Tokyo: a late Edo timber gatehouse with rooms beside the passage, a copper roof and bracketed eaves on the front only.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Bunkogura in Fussa, Tokyo: a small 1863 storehouse dated by ink on its stairs, a former treasure store registered for its fine plaster work.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Hongura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1880 two-storey earthen brewing hall, 32 by 23 meters, gabled at one end and hipped at the other, still brewing.
Ishikawa Sake Brewery Mukaigura in Fussa, Tokyo: an earthen storehouse built as a coal shed in 1896, with torii-shaped window frames, now housing a beer brewery.
A small dozo tool store beside the Isego rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Mortar render scored into stone-like joints gives it weight.
An early Meiji rice shop in Sengoku, Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, registered in 2003. Low dashigeta eaves and lattice windows survive, and the family still sells rice here.
Registered in 2010, Iseya Shop and Residence is a small 1927 timber shop-house in Nihonzutsumi, Tokyo, still a tempura shop, its gable facing a vanished embankment.
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