Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway, a registered tangible cultural property dating from 1912. Explore its wooden station building, stone platform, peach blossoms, and the Train Restaurant Seiryu in Gunma Prefecture.

The Konakagawa Bridge on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori City, Gunma Prefecture, is a registered tangible cultural property built in 1912 to serve the Ashio Copper Mine. Featuring plate girders made with Dorman Long steel from England and elegant granite masonry piers, this century-old bridge still carries trains daily through one of Japan's most scenic mountain gorges.

Over the Kawaguchi River in Kiryu, Gunma, this 20-meter single-track deck plate girder of 1912 keeps its original form, with J-shaped stiffeners and no later bracing.

A straight 82-meter brick tunnel of 1912 in Kiryu, Gunma, its horseshoe cross-section closely following Japan's first standardized railway tunnel pattern.

The down-line platform at Sori Station in Midori, Gunma: a 99-meter stone platform of 1912 with a 1927 wooden shelter, open with glass doors and exposed roof framing.

The up-line platform at Sori Station in Midori, Gunma: a 79-meter stone platform of 1912 with ramped ends and a small 1929 gabled wooden shelter.

In Omama, Midori, Gunma, this 166-meter brick tunnel of 1912, refitted in 1974, is the longest on the line, its arch brick and its lower walls mixing brick and cut stone.

On a slope above Gunma's Watarase River, this curved 98-meter single-track tunnel was bored in 1912 for the Ashio copper-ore railway, with a rockfall shelter added later.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence main house in Shiraichi, Higashihiroshima, is an 1871 ironcasters' townhouse. Metal fittings on its lattice recall the trade. Registered 2025.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence storehouse in Shiraichi is the town's only three-storey kura, built by an ironcasting family in the Taishō era. Registered 2025.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence detached wing in Shiraichi is a refined Meiji guest room and tea room, said to have lodged a prince. Registered 2025 as a design model.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence gate and wall edge an old street in Shiraichi. Its stone-stepped yakui-mon gate bears castle-style shachihoko ornaments. Registered 2025.

Explore the Iroha Maru Exhibition Hall in Tomonoura, Fukuyama. Housed in a Registered Tangible Cultural Property warehouse from the Edo period, this museum showcases artifacts from Sakamoto Ryoma's famous 1867 maritime incident and his secret hideout.

Discover Ono Community Hall in Jinsekikogen, Hiroshima — a 1929 wooden schoolhouse registered as a national tangible cultural property. Explore its history, architecture, and rural highland charm.

This small open well house at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima shelters a stone well and the medium-hard water used in every batch of its sake. Registered in 2020.

Rising about twelve metres at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima, this English-bond brick chimney with a banded top is a landmark from the brewery's era of modernising.

The oldest building at Kanemitsu Brewery, this early-Meiji dozo storehouse is where the acclaimed Kamokinshu sake, revived through hand brewing in 2003, is still made.

Running about 39 metres at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima, this long dozo storehouse holds the cold-kept tanks that guard the fresh, lightly sparkling Kamokinshu sake.

Linked by a covered corridor to the main house at Kanemitsu Brewery, this late-Taisho detached building shows the sukiya-refined domestic side of a sake-brewing family.

The Kanemitsu Sake Brewery Bottling House in Kurose-cho, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property designated in 2020. Eight brewery structures including the bottling house, brewing storehouse, and chimney preserve the culture and history of traditional Japanese sake production since the brewery's founding in 1880. The still-active brewery produces the award-winning Kamo Kinshu sake and features an on-site direct sales shop.