Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover Kasamatsu Tunnel, a 362-meter brick-and-stone railway tunnel built in 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway. A registered tangible cultural property and the longest original Ashio Railway tunnel, it can be experienced from scenic trolley trains winding through the Watarase Valley gorge.

Clad in brown scratch tile, this 1928 schoolhouse on Aichi Gakuin University's Kusumoto campus in Nagoya was designed by a pupil of the architect Suzuki Teiji.

Two reinforced-concrete pillars built in 1938 still mark the entrance to Nagoya's Asahigaoka High School, a campus with roots in an 1870 school of Western studies.

Built of stone around 1903, this is Aichi's oldest school gate, and one of thirteen working prefectural school gates registered together in 2017, a first for Japan.

Cast in reinforced concrete around 1929, the gateposts of Nagoya's Ishin High School carry Secession-style ornament and were registered as cultural property in 2017.

Two granite gateposts have framed Okazaki's Iwazu High School since 1937, topped with a 54-centimetre stone hemisphere and registered as cultural property in 2017.

Granite gate pillars at Okazaki High School, Aichi, early Taisho. Western classical columns meet a Japanese rough stone finish, registered in 2017 and still in use.

Reinforced-concrete gate pillars raised around 1925 for a sericulture school in Nishio, Aichi. Their Secession-style geometry won national registration in 2017.

Kariya High School's 1923 gate in Aichi, its reinforced-concrete posts scored to mimic stone in the Secession style, registered as a cultural property in 2017.

Komaki High School's 1929 front gate: reinforced concrete dressed as stone with carved acanthus capitals, registered in 2017 among thirteen old-system school gates.

Built in 1924 at Nagoya's Zuiryo High School, Kankido is the city's oldest reinforced-concrete auditorium. Note the four roof gables and Secession-style trim.

In Nagoya stand Zuiryo High School's old gate pillars, built around 1924 in reinforced concrete for a former commercial school in a straight-lined Secession style.

The 1923 reinforced-concrete front gate of Tsushima High School in Aichi became a Registered Cultural Property in 2017, listed with twelve other school gates.

At the rear of the deep Inoue lot, beyond the garden, stands this small early-Meiji storehouse of about 31 square meters, its walls clad in boarding. Listed 2004.

On Honmachi-dori in Inuyama's castle town, this early-Meiji townhouse now houses a pickle shop and tearoom, so visitors can step right inside. Listed 2004.

The ōiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, built around 1856, encloses the older honden and is shaped like a full main hall with a carved canopy.

Built in 1909, the chūden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, is a rare middle hall between the worship and covering halls, carved with dragons and cranes.

Built in 1882, the haiden of Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, stands at the front of the central halls, richly carved, its roof re-tiled in 2024 to 2025.

At Ushida Hachiman Shrine in Chiryu, Aichi, a small Edo-period honden sits within a covering hall, anchoring a rare line of four halls registered in 2024.

On Honmachi-dori, which climbs to Inuyama Castle, this late-Edo townhouse is unusually broad at 11.8 meters, its face black plaster behind lattice. Listed 2004.