Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Fukushima

The mash-preparation storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built around 1917 and registered in 2021, it was destroyed in the June 2026 fire.

The street frontage of the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima: a yakui-mon gate of about 1927 and a 35-meter wall, spared by the June 2026 fire.

The storage building at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1925, this two-story storehouse ran eighteen bays long. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

The shop-residence at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A timber house of the early Meiji era, it held the family's shop and home. Burned in June 2026.

The pressing house at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1917, this storehouse separated sake from lees. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

The document storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. A small 1917 storehouse, its gable bore the family trade name. Lost in June 2026.

The yeast-starter storehouse at the Sasa Masamune brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built around 1925, this building raised the seed mash. Lost in the June 2026 fire.

Built in 1873 in Fukushima City, this thatched farmhouse turns a stepped kabuto gable to the east and a hipped irimoya to the west. Registered nationally in 2013.

Added in 1932 as retirement quarters for the head of the Sato household in Fukushima City, this annexe holds an eight-mat room with a toko alcove and shoin window.

Raised in 1875 in Fukushima City, this two-storey earthen storehouse guarded the household's deeds and ledgers behind thick clay walls under white lime plaster.

The Jananohana Goten Kurazashiki in Motomiya City, Fukushima Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property renowned for its exceptionally lavish interior within a traditional Tohoku-style earthen storehouse. Built as part of a wealthy landowner's Meiji-era villa over a decade of meticulous construction, it features painted screens by Kano-school artists and rare timbers, standing as a unique architectural treasure within the scenic Ja no Hana Gardens.

Discover Totsuna Bridge, one of Japan's oldest steel arch bridges, standing gracefully over the Surikami River in the heart of Iizaka Onsen since 1915. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property with a crossing history spanning over 1,000 years.

Nakamuraya Ryokan Shinkan is a three-story dozō-zukuri (storehouse-style) inn built around 1896 in the Yuzawa district of Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima City. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this Meiji-era building features an open, airy design that contrasts beautifully with its Edo-period companion wing. Restored after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, it continues to welcome guests as a living piece of architectural heritage.

Nakamuraya Ryokan Main Building is a three-story kura-zukuri (storehouse-style) inn and nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the Yuzawa district of Iizaka Onsen, Fukushima City. Dating from the late Edo period with roots stretching back to 1688, this white-walled heritage inn offers a rare opportunity to stay within a living cultural treasure while enjoying natural hot spring waters at one of the Three Great Hot Springs of Oshu.

The Nippon Sei Ko Kai Koriyama St. Peter and St. Paul Church, standing on the Hayama hillside in Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture, is a reinforced concrete Gothic chapel completed in 1932. Designed by architect Uebayashi Keikichi, the church features refined buttress detailing, a Norman-style tower, an innovative scissors truss and arched beam roof structure, and stained glass made from Czechoslovakian glass. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it represents the culmination of prewar Anglican church architecture in Japan.

The United Church of Christ in Japan Wakamatsu Sakaemachi Church is a wooden Gothic-style church built in 1911 in Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima Prefecture. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, the church is celebrated for its elegant white clapboard exterior and pointed spire, and is renowned as the place where the world-famous bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi was baptized at the age of eighteen.

Discover the Noguchi Hideyo Birthplace Main House in Inawashiro, Fukushima — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1823. This thatched-roof Aizu farmhouse is where Japan's renowned bacteriologist was born and raised, now preserved within the Hideyo Noguchi Memorial Museum.

The Hayashi Family Residence in Zaimokucho, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1927. This grand dwelling of over 100 tsubo features rare yellow plaster walls with weatherboard cladding and a prestigious irimoya-style tiled roof with masterfully layered gables, creating an imposing presence. Also designated as Aizu-Wakamatsu Historical Landscape Building No. 18, it stands as a masterpiece of early Showa-period residential architecture.

A gravity concrete sabo dam in Fukushima City combining a 4.4m prefectural dam of 1951 with a 66m by 15m national enlargement of 1954, faced in nuno-zumi coursing.

Built in 1957 high on the Higashi-Karasu River in Fukushima City, this 67m by 12m sabo dam carries its downstream batter unbroken into its wings, faced in tani-zumi.

Fukushima’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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