Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Otani Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Toyokawa, Aichi is a remarkable two-story reinforced concrete granary built in 1928. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, this compact 23m² structure features a distinctive vault ceiling and reflects the modernization of rural Japanese agricultural architecture during the early Showa era.

Standing at the western foot of sacred Mt. Hongu in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Main Building is a stately wooden home completed in 1916 (Taisho 5). It features remarkably thick structural timbers cut from the family's own mountain holdings, a formal shikidai entrance organizing reception rooms and a Buddhist altar room to the north and living quarters to the south through a central corridor, and an early reinforced concrete basement. Together with its earthen storehouse, rice storehouse, and connecting corridor, the residence was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in October 2017.

Tucked into the foothills of Mount Hongū in Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture, the Otani Family Residence Earthen Storehouse is a small two-story dozō-zukuri building completed in 1916 to commemorate the enthronement of Emperor Taishō. Owned by the Otani family — once headmen of Ashiyamada village in the Edo period — it was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2017 alongside the main hall, rice storehouse, and connecting passageway. Its clapboard skirting, lattice-patterned namako-kabe façade, and butterfly-motif door stops embody the refined craftsmanship of early-Taishō rural architecture in Mikawa.

The Otani Family Residence Corridor in Toyokawa, Aichi, covers 2.5 square meters. Built around 1916 and registered in 2017, it links a house and a storehouse.

Ome Shrine sits on a wooded hill in Seto City's Akazu district, listed in Japan's tenth-century shrine register and home to a Main Hall built in 1805 by local master carpenters. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in March 2024, this elegant sanken-sha nagare-zukuri sanctuary stands beside a seventh-century burial mound in the heart of Akazu—one of Japan's six ancient pottery centers.

Discover the Okazaki Shinkin Bank Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Okazaki, Aichi. Built in 1917, this stunning Renaissance-style brick building was designed by Suzuki Teiji, a protégé of Tokyo Station architect Tatsuno Kingo.

A tiny Meiji strongroom beside the Okumura main house in Inuyama. Just 14 square metres, yet its tiled canopies and black plaster answer the view from the west.

A late-Edo grain store in Inuyama facing the inner gate across the compound. Five and a half ken long and 51 square metres, the largest store on the Okumura plot.

A late-Edo merchant house on Inuyama's old highway, rebuilt after the 1842 fire. Seven ken wide, plaster-clad, with a low tsushi upper floor. Registered 1999.

A Meiji storehouse west of the Okumura rice store in Inuyama. Three ken square, taller than its neighbour, and finished with ridge-end tiles that mark a higher rank.

A Meiji outbuilding in Inuyama sharing two walls with a storehouse and a boundary wall, forming a narrow alley-like space against the compound's covered passage.

A Taisho sukiya-style room built hard against a storehouse wall in Inuyama, with an eight-mat room and a slatted moon-viewing deck projecting on its north side.

The East Takabei is a 17.4-meter plastered wall of a merchant compound in Inuyama, braced by buttress posts and listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

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.

Rebuilt in Inuyama after an 1842 fire by the tile makers who revived Inuyama ware, the Ozeki Family Main House keeps a vast earthen work hall. Registered 1999.

The Ozeki Family Storehouse in Inuyama is a two storey earthen walled kura of about 1842. A pent roof shelters its east front and its ground floor is a gallery.

The Onoda Family Residence Main Building in Toyohashi, Aichi, dates from 1886, with a wing added in 1920 and an 1849 gatehouse nearby. Registered in 2013.

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.

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