Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover the Ōgo Station Lightning Rod Tower, a 1928 Warren truss steel tower registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Part of the historic Jōmō Electric Railway complex in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture.

Discover the Jomo Electric Railway Ōgo Station Substation, a 1928 reinforced concrete building registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Explore this rare surviving example of early Showa-era railway infrastructure in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture.

Discover the Jomo Electric Railway Kasukawa Bridge, a 1928 steel plate girder railway bridge registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in Gunma Prefecture. Learn about its history, Typhoon Kathleen repairs, and how to visit.

Discover Nishi-Kiryu Station in Kiryu, Gunma — a registered tangible cultural property featuring rare Mansard-roof Western-style architecture from 1928. Explore this living heritage of Japan's silk-weaving capital.

Discover the Nishi-Kiryu Station Platform Canopy, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kiryu, Gunma. Built in 1928 by Jomo Electric Railway, this rare wooden truss-structure canopy preserves early Shōwa-era railway architecture in a historic textile town.

The Jomo Electric Railway Watarase River Bridge in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, is a 157-meter railway bridge that has been in continuous service since 1928. Featuring eight steel plate girder spans and distinctive diamond-shaped concrete piers, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2007. With the Jomo Line's Cycle Train service and IC transit card support, this early Showa-era engineering landmark is easily accessible for international visitors.

Discover Shiraiya, a registered tangible cultural property in Nakanojo, Gunma Prefecture. This Meiji-era wooden inn features distinctive segai-zukuri architecture and preserves the atmosphere of a traditional Japanese hatago along the Mikuni Kaidō route.

Discover Suikintei, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture. Designed by master sukiya architect Ōgi Rodō in 1935, this exquisite tea house features the Jiseian tearoom named by industrialist Matsunaga Yasuzaemon, and a suikinkutsu water chime selected as one of Japan's 100 Soundscapes.

Discover the Water Museum in Kiryu, Gunma — a 1932 reinforced concrete office building with distinctive scratch tile walls. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcases Japan's early modern waterworks infrastructure and architectural design.

Discover Suidoyama Memorial Hall in Kiryu, Gunma — a 1932 wooden building with scratch tile walls and Spanish roof tiles, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. This nationally registered tangible cultural property offers free admission and panoramic city views.

Just a two-minute walk from JR Takasaki Station, surrounded by modern office towers, stands a two-story wooden inn from 1932 that is still in active use today. Founded in 1879 and famed during the war years as a station-front ryokan in the military city of Takasaki—and later as a favored retreat of novelist Shiba Ryotaro—Toyodaya Ryokan Main Building is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, prized for its irimoya roof, gable-entry plan, and graceful karahafu entrance.

Standing in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, the Niijima Gakuen Junior College Research Building is the only surviving circular schoolhouse in Gunma. Built in 1956 as the schoolhouse of Takasaki Municipal Girls' High School, this three-story reinforced concrete cylinder was designed by Kanao Sakamoto, the Japanese architect celebrated for his circular school designs. With a spiral staircase at its core and five fan-shaped classrooms arranged around the perimeter, the building was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018. Discover this remarkable survivor of Japan's 1950s architectural experimentation.

A 1920 wooden pastor's residence at Annaka Church in Gunma, whose 8- and 10-mat tatami rooms are said to be from a former Annaka domain retainer's mansion.

At Annaka Church in Gunma sits Gientei, a 1935 wooden study built for pastor Kashiwagi Gien, whose 459-issue monthly opposed Japan's wars and empire until 1936.

At Ōana Onsen in Minakami, Gunma, this bath sits deep in a tunnel hewn into the bedrock, where Moralogy's founder Hiroike Chikuro convalesced. It was listed in 2025.

At Ōana in Minakami, this changing room has a double cedar-bark roof and an exposed king-post truss. Hiroike Chikuro died at this site in 1938; it was listed in 2025.

At Tanigawa in Minakami stands a shrine of about 7.3 square metres enshrining Amaterasu, clad in cedar bark and built in 1936. It was listed in 2025.

At Tanigawa Onsen in Minakami stands Reitaku-kan, a single-storey retreat with a bath on its east end. Hiroike Chikuro stayed here in his final years; listed in 2025.

Discover the Hirosegawa Museum of Art in Maebashi, Gunma — a 1948 International Style artist's atelier turned museum. Japan's first postwar building registered as a national tangible cultural property, featuring Western-style paintings and vintage gramophone concerts by the scenic Hirose River.

The smallest of the eight Fujiu buildings in Kiryu, Gunma, this early-Meiji shelter guards an Edo-period Inari shrine. Private; not open to the public.

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UNESCO-inscribed cultural and natural sites across the archipelago.