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14,498 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Gamagori Classic Hotel Oshukutei (former Tokiwakan Annex Tea House)
Aichi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Gamagori Classic Hotel Oshukutei (former Tokiwakan Annex Tea House)

A single-storey timber tea house on a hill in Gamagori, Aichi, with a small tea room and an eight-mat guest room, built in the sukiya manner. Registered in 2022.

Gamagori Classic Hotel Main Building (former Gamagori Hotel Main Building)
Aichi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Gamagori Classic Hotel Main Building (former Gamagori Hotel Main Building)

A 1934 building on a hill above Mikawa Bay in Gamagori, Aichi. A hip-and-gable copper roof sits on a concrete frame, with wings of three and two storeys.

Gamagori Classic Hotel Ryotei Takeshima (former Tokiwakan Ume Annex)
Aichi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Gamagori Classic Hotel Ryotei Takeshima (former Tokiwakan Ume Annex)

A detached building of 1916 on a hill in Gamagori, Aichi. A room stepping out to the southeast carries snow-viewing screens over Mikawa Bay. Registered in 2022.

Gamagori Classic Hotel Rokkakudo (former Gamagori Hotel Shubido)
Aichi 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Gamagori Classic Hotel Rokkakudo (former Gamagori Hotel Shubido)

A single-storey timber building of 1936 in Gamagori, Aichi. Hexagonal, roofed in glazed blue tiles under a sacred jewel, it was a sales pavilion. Registered in 2022.

Meiji Mura: Main Building of the Museido Martial Arts Hall, Fourth Higher School
Aichi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Meiji Mura: Main Building of the Museido Martial Arts Hall, Fourth Higher School

A martial arts hall of 1917 at Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi, moved there from Kanazawa in 1970. A Western roof truss clears its floor of every column.

Kawabun: Main Building
Aichi 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kawabun: Main Building

A two-storey timber building of 1950 in Nagoya, Aichi. Its rooms are set apart by corridors and narrow interstitial spaces rather than placed side by side.

Auditorium of the Junior High School Attached to Ehime University (former Matsuyama Higher School Auditorium)
Ehime 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Auditorium of the Junior High School Attached to Ehime University (former Matsuyama Higher School Auditorium)

A timber auditorium of 1922 in Matsuyama, Ehime, built for a school run by the ministry. Its front carries a large porte-cochere of eight Tuscan columns.

Budo Hall (former Mizukaido Elementary School Indoor Gymnasium and Auditorium)
Ibaraki 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Budo Hall (former Mizukaido Elementary School Indoor Gymnasium and Auditorium)

A single-storey timber hall of 1932 in Joso, Ibaraki, 541 square metres. Built as a school gymnasium and auditorium, it now serves as a martial arts hall.

JR Tsuyama Line (formerly Chugoku Railway) Takebe Station
Okayama 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
JR Tsuyama Line (formerly Chugoku Railway) Takebe Station

A single-storey timber station of 1900 in Okayama, 84 square metres. Of its seven bays, two and a half at the south end serve as the waiting room today.

Zenkaku Inari Shrine Main Hall
Okayama 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Zenkaku Inari Shrine Main Hall

A shrine hall of 1919 in Maniwa, Okayama, just 12 square metres. Its walls are laid in two layers, with round posts outside and square ones set within.

Okinawa World Former Kamisato Family Residence Main Building
Okinawa 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Okinawa World Former Kamisato Family Residence Main Building

A single-storey timber house at Okinawa World in Nanjo, 127 square metres. Four rooms range along the front and three more lie behind them to the west.

Chojataki Bridge
Iwate 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Chojataki Bridge

A bridge of 1939 over the Iwai River in Ichinoseki, Iwate, 61 metres long. The Agency records it as a concrete bridge with bamboo used as reinforcement.

Asai Gun and Ammunition Store and Main Building
Gifu 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Asai Gun and Ammunition Store and Main Building

A shop and dwelling in Kamioka, Hida, Gifu, 270 square metres. Its townhouse front carries a Western reception room to the right, Western inside and out.

Suga Family Residence, North Storehouse
Gifu 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Suga Family Residence, North Storehouse

An earth-walled storehouse of 1892 in Gero, Gifu, just 21 square metres. A single line of black plaster crosses its white wall high up, sharpening it.

Hobo Family Main Building
Gifu 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Hobo Family Main Building

A single-storey timber house at the Okute post station in Mizunami, Gifu. A quatrefoil window sits in the low wall above its front eaves, with a crest beside it.

Yoshida Family Residence Main Building
Gifu 江戸 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yoshida Family Residence Main Building

A former lodging house at the Ota post station on the Nakasendo in Minokamo, Gifu. Plastered to the eaves, it still leaves its head rails and brackets in view.

Former Yamada Main Store (Yamakano Brewery) Former Brewing
Miyagi 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former Yamada Main Store (Yamakano Brewery) Former Brewing

A large Taisho-period storehouse in Tome, Miyagi, fifteen bays long. Its roof frame imitates a Western truss, bolted and strapped together with iron straps.

Imabayashi Family Residence Miso Storehouse
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Imabayashi Family Residence Miso Storehouse

An earth-walled storehouse of the Meiji period in Miyazu, Kyoto, just 17 square metres. Its rafters are set in a fan, as at three other stores on the plot.

Yoshida Family Residence Main Building
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Yoshida Family Residence Main Building

A Meiji townhouse on Shinmachi-dori in Kyoto, 180 square metres. Its ground-floor front divides in three: a doorway, a display board and a lattice bay.

Shimadai Liquor Store
Kyoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Shimadai Liquor Store

A shop of 1883 on Oike-dori in Kyoto, 80 square metres. Its plan wraps in an L around a storehouse that is itself registered quite separately from it.