Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The nagayamon gatehouse of the Manabe Family Residence spans the south front, eleven bays wide. Relocated around 1882, its plaster and namako base symbolize the estate.

The barn and wall of the Manabe Family Residence stand at the estate's north edge. Built around 1875 with a back gate, on a stone base beside a water channel.

The detached quarters of the Manabe Family Residence, its oldest surviving building, stand behind the main house. Built around 1875, remodeled in 1926.

The east gate of the Manabe Family Residence stands beside the nagayamon. Built in middle Meiji, it holds a three-mat menservants' room, its wall doubling as a barn.

Discover Miroku Sekketsu, a 189-meter tunnel hand-carved through solid rock in 1857 to bring water to Miroku Pond in Sanuki City, Kagawa. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcasing Edo-era engineering ingenuity.

In Mure, Takamatsu, a brick chimney about eighteen meters tall stands by the road to Yakuriji temple, its south face still bearing the Genji Masamune brewery name.

Once a store for the Yamada family's Genji Masamune sake, this plain late-Taisho timber storehouse near Yakuriji temple now serves as a dining room for a udon restaurant.

On the old approach to Yakuriji temple, a hall barely two square meters shelters two stone Jizo figures inscribed 1729 and 1765, marking devotion on the pilgrim path.

At the center of the Yamada estate near Yakuriji temple, this large timber house of former headmen turned sake brewers now serves as the Yamada-ya udon restaurant.

At the entrance to the Yamada estate, a three-meter stone lantern of the late Edo period once guided pilgrims toward Yakuriji temple, carved with its donor's name.

At the head of the estate drive, the Yamada nagayamon is a long late-Edo gatehouse fourteen bays wide, its openings aligned with the two entrances of the house behind.

Near the guest rooms of the Yamada house, a garden gate barely a meter wide is roofed with bold arched tiles, an early-Showa accent between the south and west gardens.

East of the gatehouse, the Yamada south storehouse shows its white-plastered gable to the road, a late-Taisho earthen storehouse built for sake, now a udon dining room.

The Nogi Shrine Temizusha (hand-washing pavilion) in Zentsuji City, Kagawa Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built around 1935 as part of a shrine complex dedicated to General Nogi Maresuke. Featuring a modernized Shinmei-zukuri architectural style inspired by Ise Grand Shrine, it was registered along with the main hall, worship hall, and torii gate in 2002. Located alongside the Kagawa Prefecture Gokoku Shrine and near the birthplace of Kobo Daishi, it offers visitors a unique window into Japan's early Showa-era shrine architecture and modern history.

Discover the Kinryo Fujii Family Residence Main Gate on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. Originally an Edo-period Buddhist temple gate (yakuimon), this Registered Tangible Cultural Property was relocated to a historic soy sauce brewery compound in the Hishio no Sato district.

A steel tower off Kochi: 64 spiral steps drop seven meters under Tatsukushi Bay to round windows on the reef. Built 1971, registered 2022, closed since May 2026.

In the old merchant town of Tano, Kochi, this small 1938 storehouse shows Tosa craft clearly: thick lime-plaster walls banded by four tiers of rain-cutting tiles.

In Tano, Shikoku's smallest town, this 1937 cultural property gave a coastal fishing master's home the formal entrance and gentry rooms of a samurai house.

Built in 1938 for the Arisawa, who owned Tano's fishing fleet, this timber annex keeps a beach-facing passage—a registered cultural property in old-town Tano, Kochi.

In the fishing town of Usa in Kochi, this around-1947 registered building holds four rooms set in the order dried bonito is made: boiling, smoking, mold, storage.

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