Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Registered in 2013, the 1930s East Wing of Kumamoto's Hitoyoshi Ryokan keeps a fan-shaped alcove window and fine-timber rooms, rebuilt after the 2020 flood.

Built in 1925 to carry carts over the Koshi River, Himeibashi in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, is Japan's earliest surviving through-type reinforced concrete arch bridge.

The front gate of the Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishō-kan) in Tanoura, Kumamoto dates to about 1894. Sandstone pillars likely from Amakusa frame its board doors.

Discover the Yamaga Toro Folk Craft Museum, a registered tangible cultural property housed in a 1925 Romanesque bank building. Explore exquisite paper lanterns crafted entirely from washi and glue in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture.

Built in 1880, the Yoshioka Amida hall is a tiny 3.8-square-metre worship space enshrining Amida Nyorai behind latticed doors. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Said to have been moved from Kumamoto city, the Yoshioka Edo storehouse is a small two-storey plastered dozo, one of six family structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1885 in Kutami, Yamaga, the Yoshioka main house anchored a sericulture estate. Its hip-and-gable roof and six-room plan center a compound registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka fence runs 35 metres on a split-stone base, its bracing matching the gate along the street edge in Kutami. One of six registered in 2016.

Built around 1889, the Yoshioka Meiji storehouse doubled as a stable, with a cart passage and iron tethering fittings inside. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Discover the Ikaho Kanko Hotel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma. Built in 1929 as a Western-style hotel for foreign guests, this wooden three-story building with a five-tiered pagoda tower offers a window into early Showa hospitality and the resort town's international heritage.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

Built in 1913 as a Bank of Japan deputy governor's villa and moved twice to Mt. Akagi, this refined house pairs tatami rooms with a Western parlour. Registered in 2025.

Discover the Kanezen Building (Kanezen Biru) in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture — one of the oldest reinforced concrete structures in the prefecture, built around 1921 with Secessionist-style ornamentation. A nationally registered tangible cultural property that reflects Kiryu's golden age as Japan's silk textile capital.

Discover the Karasugawa Upstream Sabo Dam in Takasaki, Gunma — a 1951 gravity concrete dam registered as a national tangible cultural property. Built with US aid funding and advanced stonework, it creates a stunning waterfall-like landscape in a lush mountain gorge.

Perched at Torii Pass 1,390 m above sea level, this is the surviving summit terminus of a short-lived cable railway that ran for barely a decade in the late 1950s and 1960s. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, the reinforced-concrete station and its stub-end platform now host a panoramic café and railway museum operated year-round by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.