Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A small late-Edo gate at the former Okumura merchant house in Inuyama, Aichi: black-plastered front, white rear, just six square meters, registered in 1999.

The watari-ro of the Okumura Residence in Inuyama is a Meiji-era covered corridor doubling as a well-house, one of nine registered buildings now run as a restaurant.

Discover the Onoda Family Residence Nagayamon in Toyohashi, Aichi — a registered tangible cultural property built in 1849 by a village headman inspired by Edo samurai gate architecture. Explore its history, architectural significance, and visiting tips.

The Oriental Building Rooftop Ferris Wheel, located atop Nagoya Mitsukoshi Sakae department store, is the oldest surviving rooftop Ferris wheel in Japan. Built in 1956 and designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the memory of Japan's beloved postwar department store rooftop amusement parks.

The Main Hall of Kagaku-ji Temple in Nishio City, Aichi Prefecture, is a Rinzai Zen hōjō-style hall reconstructed in 1684 with funds from the family of Kira Yoshinaka — the historical figure at the center of Japan's legendary Forty-Seven Rōnin tale. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this remarkably preserved structure retains most of its original 17th-century timber. Discover the Kira clan's legacy, imperial treasures, and the rich historical landscape of the Kira district.

At Kakuo-ji, a Rinzai temple in Fuso, Aichi, the 1840 kuri is a Registered Cultural Property: a 24-meter temple kitchen with a roof smoke vent and a decorated gable.

Kakuoji's gate in Fuso, Aichi, is a one-bay zelkova yakui-mon built in 1902, among five temple buildings on Japan's register of tangible cultural properties.

In Fuso, Aichi, the 1934 belfry of Kakuo-ji is a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property: one bay square, packed with dense brackets and a painted ceiling.

Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.

Kakujoro Main Building, a 1936 restaurant-inn in the old port of Fukue on the Atsumi Peninsula, became Tahara's first Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2022.

A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property designed in 1930 by Swiss architect Max Hinder, this Western-style rectory stands within the grounds of Nagoya's oldest Catholic church, founded in 1887. Located in the Shirakabe-Chikara-Shuki Townscape Preservation District, it is a precious example of early Showa-era colonial-style architecture.

The Catholic Chikara-machi Church Believers' Hall in Nagoya's Higashi Ward is a colonial-style two-story wooden Western building constructed around 1889–1892 as the rectory for French missionary Father Tulpin. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the history of early Catholic evangelization and Meiji-era Western architecture in Nagoya.

This Meiji-era brick wall at Nagoya's oldest Catholic church stretches 29 meters along Chikara-machi Street, featuring English-bond brickwork atop a cut-stone base. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2011, it contributes to the historic streetscape of the Shirakabe–Chikara–Shumoku Preservation District along Nagoya's Cultural Path.

The 1928 main hall of Kijo Elementary School in Kariya, Aichi, is a reinforced-concrete building by Onaka Hajime on the old castle grounds, now a free local museum.

Along the west and south of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya runs a concrete retaining wall faced with coursed Oya stone, capped and crowned with a clipped hedge.

At the south edge of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 tiled wall steps down the slope in three stages to a recessed sliding-door gate with carved transoms.

At the cut northwest corner of the Kawarada Residence in Nagoya, a 1938 bracket-arm gate and tiled earthen wall form the formal street face of a Showa garden house.

The Former Head Office of Kankyo Mirin in Kanie, Aichi Prefecture, is a 1937 reinforced-concrete office building registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. As the first RC structure ever built in Kanie Town, this elegant Showa-era landmark features scratch-tile walls and terracotta entrance trim along the Kanie River.

Discover the Kankyō Mirin Factory in Kanie, Aichi—a registered cultural property since 2005. Built in 1877, this U-shaped earthen-walled brewery still produces traditional hon-mirin used by Japan's finest restaurants.