Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gunma

Discover Shigeta House in Tamamura, Gunma - a 300-year-old physician's estate with 7 nationally registered cultural properties. Experience Meiji-era architecture, traditional medicine history, and free doctor costume activities. Open Wed-Fri, free admission.

Discover the Ogiwara Family Residence, a nationally registered cultural property in Kiryu City, Gunma. This Meiji-era merchant home with its traditional storehouse, gate, and walls offers a rare glimpse into Japan's thriving silk textile industry history.

Discover the Ikaho Kanko Hotel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma. Built in 1929 as a Western-style hotel for foreign guests, this wooden three-story building with a five-tiered pagoda tower offers a window into early Showa hospitality and the resort town's international heritage.

A small early-Meiji pawn storehouse moved to Mt. Akagi, its plaster walls and layered doors marking careful work. Registered in 2025, it is now a Seiho Sanso guest room.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

One of the oldest brick warehouses by Maebashi Station, No. 3 dates to 1896. Cornices wrap its walls and arched windows run the long front. It once held silk and cocoons.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

Facing west at the east edge of the yard, No. 2 Brick Warehouse was built in 1896 like No. 3. Cornices and arched windows line its walls; once a silk and cocoon store.

Built in 1913 as a Bank of Japan deputy governor's villa and moved twice to Mt. Akagi, this refined house pairs tatami rooms with a Western parlour. Registered in 2025.

Discover the Kanezen Building (Kanezen Biru) in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture — one of the oldest reinforced concrete structures in the prefecture, built around 1921 with Secessionist-style ornamentation. A nationally registered tangible cultural property that reflects Kiryu's golden age as Japan's silk textile capital.

Discover the Karasugawa Upstream Sabo Dam in Takasaki, Gunma — a 1951 gravity concrete dam registered as a national tangible cultural property. Built with US aid funding and advanced stonework, it creates a stunning waterfall-like landscape in a lush mountain gorge.

Perched at Torii Pass 1,390 m above sea level, this is the surviving summit terminus of a short-lived cable railway that ran for barely a decade in the late 1950s and 1960s. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, the reinforced-concrete station and its stub-end platform now host a panoramic café and railway museum operated year-round by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.

Standing in the heart of Maebashi's central district, the Former Otake Sake Brewery Brick Warehouse is a two-story brick structure built in 1923 during the Taisho era. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2016, it is the only remaining sake brewery building in downtown Maebashi. The building uniquely blends Western brick masonry with traditional Japanese timber-frame roof construction. Now operating as the Maebashi Arts and Culture Brick Warehouse, it serves as a vibrant multipurpose event hall where history and the arts coexist.

The Former Katsuyama-sha Brick Warehouse in Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, is a nationally registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1902. Originally constructed for the Katsuyama-sha textile company founded by silk merchant Katsuyama Sozaburo, this two-story brick storehouse features exquisite over-fired bricks in English bond pattern with traditional Japanese kura-style design elements. Discover this hidden gem of Japan's Meiji-era silk industry heritage.

Discover the Former Matsuoka Store Warehouse in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture — a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1935 that preserves the legacy of Japan's textile trading heritage in a charming two-story storehouse.

Discover the Former Matsuoka Shoten Office in Kiryu, Gunma Prefecture — a 1935 registered tangible cultural property that blends Western-style brick-tile facades with traditional Japanese craftsmanship, offering a window into Japan's thriving Showa-era textile industry.

Discover Kiryu Textile Hall Former Building (Kiryu Orimono Kaikan Kyukan), a 1934 Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Gunma Prefecture. This retro-modern scratch tile landmark tells the story of Kiryu's 1,300-year silk weaving tradition and now serves as a textile memorial hall with exhibitions and shopping.

The High-District Distribution Reservoir on Suidōyama in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, is a reinforced concrete waterworks facility built in 1932. Part of a remarkably complete network of early Shōwa-era water supply infrastructure — a rarity in Japan — it is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Explore this hidden heritage gem alongside panoramic views from Suidōyama Park and the Ōkawa Museum of Art, set against the backdrop of Kiryu's 1,300-year textile tradition.

Discover Gunma Kaikan in Maebashi, a 1930 Renaissance-style public hall designed by architect Koichi Sato. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this historic landmark features scratch-tile facades, art glass windows, and a beloved basement restaurant.

Discover the Gunma Prefectural Government Main Building, Japan's first prefectural government building registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Designed by architect Sato Koichi in 1928, this elegant Western-style building in Maebashi features scratch tile facades and Art Deco details.

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

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

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