Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Fukushima

Discover Koriyama City Public Hall, a stunning Neo-Renaissance building designed by Japan's National Diet Building architect. Built in 1924, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property features elegant stained glass and Renaissance ceilings, symbolizing the pioneering spirit of Fukushima Prefecture.

Tucked inside a historic high school campus in Iwaki, Fukushima, Sakuragaoka Kaikan is a 1938 wooden library building whose round windows and arched modernist details earned it Registered Tangible Cultural Property status — and gave the school its present name.

Standing in Tochikubo, Kashima Ward of Minamisoma City in Fukushima, the Otani Family Residence Middle Storehouse is a two-story earthen-walled storehouse from the early Showa period, registered as a national cultural property. Together with the East Storehouse and gate, it lines the historic Salt Road that linked the coastal Hamakaido with the inland Oshu-kaido, preserving refined details such as spiral-motif wall bands and namako-kabe checkered walls. Discover how sake, soy sauce, and the trading culture of old Soma shaped this landscape.

Standing along the historic Salt Road in Tochikubo, Minamisoma City, the Ogaike Family Residence East Storehouse is a late Meiji-period rice warehouse. This nationally registered tangible cultural property features namakokabe lattice walls, ornate plaster reliefs including a water-wheel crest, and together with its neighbouring Middle Storehouse and gate forms one of Fukushima's most intact merchant streetscapes.

The Ōtani Family Residence Gate in Tochikubo, Kashima-ku, Minamisoma, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. Built in the early Shōwa era in the traditional Kōrai-mon style, this wooden gate stands between two plaster storehouses along the historic Salt Road, preserving the atmosphere of a once-thriving merchant trading hub.

A tiny household guardian shrine at the Sasa Masamune sake brewery in Kitakata, Fukushima. Built in 1886, it was one of two buildings spared by the June 2026 fire.

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.

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.