Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Hirano Family Residence Gate in Tokyo, built around 1922, pairs rendered brick posts with a curved tiled roof, a wicket door and brick walls. Seen from the road.

The Western-style annex of the Hirano Family Residence in Tokyo, built in 1922, has white tiles, half-timbering and its own entrance and stair. Interior private.

The Blue Box House in Setagaya, Tokyo, a 1971 house by Miyawaki Mayumi, is a blue box floating on the Kokubunji escarpment, lit through a glass stairwell.

Homeikan Honkan in Hongo, Tokyo, is a timber inn of the late 1890s registered in 2000. Built as a student boarding house, its rooms are named for their timber.

Hori Shoten in Shimbashi, Tokyo, is a reinforced concrete office block of 1932, registered in 1998. Scratch tile walls, banded windows, a cafe on the ground floor.

The Maeda Family outdoor privy on Niijima, Tokyo, is a mid-Taisho stone building registered in 2004. Walls and barrel vault are built wholly of island koga-ishi.

The Maki Family Residence Japanese Wing in Chofu, Tokyo, a single-storey house joined to its Western twin by a covered corridor, was registered in 2000.

The Maki Family Western-Style Residence in Chofu, Tokyo, built about 1910 at Shirokane for a navy vice admiral and moved here in 1937, was registered in 2000.

The Matsui Residence gate and wall in Nishikata, Bunkyo, Tokyo, date from about 1932 and were registered in 2024. A doubled tile roof meets a 20-metre concrete wall.

The Mayuyama Ryusendo store of 1960 in Kyobashi, Tokyo, designed by Tohata Kenzo for an art dealer, frames its black plaster walls in stone with antique art in mind.

The Kengyo no Ma in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is the 1948 study of koto master Miyagi Michio, a small hipped-roof building with deep eaves and a refined six-mat room.

Museum 1999 in Shibuya, Tokyo, the former Chiba residence of 1934, fronts its dormered concrete block with a conical hall, a rare early Showa mansion in the city.

A late Edo grain storehouse in Higashikurume with a detached roof, four courses of Oya stone at its base, white plaster walls and stepped plaster doors facing east.

An 1838 thatched farmhouse in Higashikurume: 23 m long under a hip-and-gable roof, with a stable at one end and a six-room plan and reception room at the other.

An 1895 tile-roofed storehouse in Higashikurume with a front room and a small tea room, heavy plaster shutters upstairs and a rustic lattice window below.

A late Taisho inner gate in Higashikurume, 1.5 m wide, built of zelkova on brackets with a lattice transom, dividing a farm estate's front garden from its inner one.

A late Edo storehouse in Higashikurume, 5.4 m long, with white plaster walls, a family crest on the east gable and an interior of close-set posts and iron bars.

A late Meiji reception wing in Higashikurume, moved here in the Taisho era, with a tatami guest room, a Western-style room and a transom carved by Shimamura Shunpyo.

An 1881 zelkova gate in Higashikurume, 2.6 m wide, with a copper gable roof on a vase-shaped strut, board fences and a wicket door, visible from the road.

Morita Family Residence Wooden Fence is an early Showa fence in Akiruno, Tokyo, running 19 metres from the gate, with black battened boards on a stone base.

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