Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Mishima Koyomishi no Yakata in Mishima, Shizuoka is a museum housed in the former residence of the Kawai family, who produced the Mishima Calendar—Japan's oldest printed kana-script calendar—for fifty generations. The building, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property reconstructed from a checkpoint station after the 1854 Ansei Earthquake, features exhibits of woodblock plates and calendar artifacts, plus a free hands-on printing experience.

Spanning the Ayuzawa River in Oyama Town, Shizuoka, Morimura Bridge is a 39-metre steel truss completed in 1906 as a private trolley bridge for the Fuji Spinning Company. Designed by the Japanese engineer Akimoto Shigematsu and built at the Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipyard, it is one of the earliest domestically designed truss bridges in Japan and the oldest of its kind in the Chubu region. Listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, its 2020 restoration won the prestigious Tanaka Prize.

Yomeikan is a two-story wooden villa built in 1939 in the sukiya architectural style, located in Momoyama-cho, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Originally commissioned as a private retreat by Takeji Tanabe, president of Honshu Paper Company, it features a tower-like second floor with ornamental railings and an elegant Japanese-Western hybrid design. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, Yomeikan offers sweeping views of Sagami Bay and preserves the refined craftsmanship of Atami's golden era of modern villa architecture.

Standing on the banks of the Matsukawa River in Ito, Shizuoka, Ryokan Inaba is a three-story wooden hot spring inn built in the late Taisho era and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 1998. Famous for its dome-shaped tower nicknamed the 'aburazashi,' polished zelkova floors, a 53-tatami great hall, and tanuki-shaped bath spouts, it now welcomes travelers as the heritage guesthouse K's House Ito Onsen.

Discover the Akakura Family Residence Main House, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the historic Uomachi fish merchant district of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture. Learn about its architectural heritage and the castle town legacy of the Noto Peninsula.

Discover Akatsukiya, a 1933 Kanazawa machiya townhouse designated as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and now operating as a charming guesthouse near Kenrokuen Garden.

The Asanaga Family Residence, a registered late-Edo farmhouse on the edge of old Kanazawa, keeps its earthen work floor and heavy timber frame. A private home.

On the edge of old Kanazawa near the Asano River, this late-Edo storehouse pairs a stone-look plastered base with white-plaster upper walls and a floating roof.

Discover Asanogawa Ohashi, a 1922 reinforced concrete arch bridge in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property links the Higashi and Kazuemachi tea districts with its elegant triple-arch silhouette.

The Asanogawa Ohashi-zume Fire Watchtower, standing at the northern foot of the Asanogawa Ohashi bridge in Kanazawa's Higashiyama district, is the oldest surviving fire watchtower in the city. Built in 1924 with a distinctive triangular steel-frame design reaching approximately 11 meters, it is designated as a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. The sole survivor of Kanazawa's historic Three Watchtowers, it preserves the memory of Taisho-era fire prevention at the gateway to the Higashi Chaya District.

Discover the Awazu Enbujo, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Komatsu, Ishikawa. Built in 1933, this beautifully restored theater in Awazu Onsen showcases traditional Japanese stage architecture and the cultural legacy of the Kaga hot spring region.

On Kanazawa's Kodatsuno plateau, a 1928 home for biochemist Suto Kenzo: a half-timbered front, Japanese sides under one red-tiled roof, a central-corridor plan.

A 57-metre wall in Kanazawa that grows a hedge between twin concrete runs, built in 1928 for a German-trained doctor and now a registered cultural property.

Built in 1931 and modeled on a Kyoto National Treasure, this cypress Noh stage was moved into Japan's first public Noh theater, beside Kenrokuen in Kanazawa.

Built in 1922 as an army commander's villa by Kenrokuen, this Kanazawa house shows a different face on each side and opens free beside a conservation studio.

In central Kanazawa, Ishiguro Shoten's store and house is a 1936 art dealer's machiya, red-ochre timber set against black plaster walls, registered in 2015.

North of Kanazawa Castle, the Izumi Residence is the rare late-Edo home of a lower-ranking samurai, its plaster-and-timber gable facade registered in 2004.

A two-story earthen storehouse built in late-Edo Kanazawa for a middle-rank samurai family. Plain but finely made, it was registered as a cultural property in 2004.

A registered Meiji folk house on Kanazawa's wooded northern edge, the Itō Residence raises an azumadachi gable of stacked beams and white-plastered ties above a vast 42-mat earthen hall.

Built in 1916 in Kanazawa's Ishibiki quarter, this small former clinic is a timber building disguised as Western stone, with a scored mortar front and pilasters.

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