Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Shimoda Residence Bunko-gura in Nishitokyo, Tokyo, is a small Meiji-era earthen storehouse kept by a family of hereditary village headmen and registered in 2019.

Janoyu Onsen Takaraso, a Registered Cultural Property in Hinohara, is Tokyo's only secluded hot-spring inn: a thatched late-Edo farmhouse with a kabuto-shaped roof.

In Tokyo's Shiba district by Zōjō-ji, Jōgyō-in's 1931 ossuary copies a wooden mausoleum's roof, cusped windows and carved porch in concrete. Registered in 2022.

The 1914 main hall of Jōgū-ji, a Pure Land temple in Hiroo, Tokyo, joined Japan's Tangible Cultural Property register in 2017. Its gabled front is the draw.

Jogu-ji's reception annex in Hiroo, Tokyo, dates to around 1914. Registered in 2017, its plain rooms and comb-shaped transom show restrained Taisho temple design.

The inner sanctum of Joshoin, a sub-temple of Zojoji in Shiba, Tokyo, is a fireproof prayer hall of 1769 that survived the war, with a black-lacquered ceiling.

Above Senzoku Pond in Ota, Tokyo, the main house of Shofuso is an early-Showa sukiya home with low eaves, a wide veranda and choice timber. Registered in 2003.

The Shofuso Machiai in Ota, Tokyo is a cedar-log waiting arbor, a registered property where tea guests paused before an early-Showa gathering near Senzoku Pond.

An early-Shōwa gate near Tokyo's Senzoku Pond, barely 1.7 m wide, with a rivet-studded door, a carved frog-leg strut, and reused timber from ancient Hōryū-ji.

The Showa Era Life Museum in Ota, Tokyo, is a 1951 family home built with a public housing loan within 18 tsubo, shown with its household goods as a museum.

Megumiso on the Shirayuri University campus in Chofu, Tokyo, is an early Meiji headman's farmhouse moved from Shuzenji in Izu, a large house now rare in Izu.

Shinkaiya in Sengoku, Bunkyo, Tokyo, an early Showa soba shop, keeps its earth-floored dining room and upstairs rooms behind a tall front of lattice and railings.

At the foot of Tokyo Tower stands the 1743 vermilion front gate of Shinkō-in, a branch of the Tokugawa temple Zōjō-ji, registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.

Below Tokyo Tower in Higashi-Azabu, Shinkoin's 1955 wooden main hall blends temple carpentry with modern touches, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

The 1959 book warehouse of Shinchosha near Kagurazaka, Tokyo, registered in 2025, built to hold five million volumes and matched in height to the main building.

The 1957 head office of Shinchosha near Kagurazaka, Tokyo, registered in 2025, with a dignified glazed-tile exterior and a lobby relief of the world's scripts.

Shintomicho Tekkinro Store in Chuo City, Tokyo, is a wooden restaurant of about 1949. Its black fence and stone gate wall hold the line of a lost geisha quarter.

This reinforced concrete house in Bunkyo Ward was begun as a home and law office and caught by the 1923 earthquake mid-build. Nationally registered in 1998.

Built in 1947 as an architect's own house and studio, this single-storey timber home in Yokoderacho, Shinjuku, pairs lattice doors with brick. Registered 2011.

Built in 1916 as a pawnshop vault, this Yanaka storehouse rises three storeys of clay-plaster construction on a span of just 3.6 metres. Registered in 2000.

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