Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Completed in 1924 among the earliest buildings on this campus: an E-shaped plan, a hall projecting behind the entrance, and a Wrightian central section.

Built in 1931 as the university library, this white concrete hall closes the axis from the front gate. A Latin motto is cut into its wall, and Wright's echo lingers.

Built for the science classrooms and the largest of the seven at 1,453 sq m. Its south half came first, and triple steel sash windows face Building No. 7.

Built in 1909 as a fisheries training ship, Unyo Maru is the oldest surviving steel vessel made in Japan. Registered in 1998, her upper hull stands ashore in Tokyo.

Completed in 1933 at Komaba and registered in 2000, this clock tower was designed by Uchida Yoshikazu so the university and First Higher School would read as one.

A 1935 Uchida Gothic building on the site of the old College of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, registered in 1998, with a Gothic-arched approach and brick-tile walls.

The 1925 Reppinkan on the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, registered in 1998, the first building in the Uchida Gothic style that shaped the campus after the earthquake.

Built in 1929 at Komaba for the Aeronautical Research Institute and registered in 2000, Building 13 wraps nine horizontal bands around its mass, striped above.

The 1925 Great Hall of the University of Tokyo, designed by Uchida Yoshikazu in a vertical Gothic and Expressionist style, and the first registered cultural property in 1996.

A 1927 Uchida Gothic building just inside the main gate of the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, registered in 1998, with a Gothic arcade and vertically stressed east front.

A 1935 Uchida Gothic building on the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, registered in 1998, with a church-like Gothic arcade on its ground floor spanning a campus passage.

A 1938 Uchida Gothic building facing Law and Letters Building 1 on the University of Tokyo Hongo campus, registered in 1998, with a Gothic arcade and later rooftop vaults.

The 1912 main gate and guardhouses of the University of Tokyo, designed by Ito Chuta, blending a traditional crossbeam gate with Western technique, registered in 1998.

Completed in 1937 at Yayoi and registered in 2010, this was the first baseball facility in Japan to gain the status. A cantilevered arch carries the seating roof.

Tokyo Tower in Shiba Park, built in 1958, is a 333-metre steel broadcasting tower that outstripped the Eiffel Tower, loved as a symbol of post-war recovery.

Built around 1931 beside the Azumabashi crossing in Asakusa, this small concrete subway entrance carries curved eaves, round columns and a copper temple roof.

Completed in 1953 on the rim of the Kanda River gorge in Tokyo, this white concrete entrance to Ochanomizu Station wraps ribbon windows around a curved corner.

The Yotsuya Overpass of the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, a steel Gerber bridge of 1959, crosses the JR lines at 30 degrees to carry Yotsuya Station by the moat.

The Faculty of Agriculture main building of TUAT in Fuchu, Tokyo, built in 1934 for the Tokyo Higher School of Agriculture and Forestry, is crowned by a clock tower.

The Osakaya Sunaba store in Toranomon, Tokyo, a two-storey timber corner shop of 1923 with a cut corner and a small gable, is loved as a local landmark.

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