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.

Built between 1883 and 1897 and spared by the great Omama fire of 1895, this timber merchant house in Midori City, Gunma, still trades as a soy sauce shop.

Raised in 1913 to keep a soy sauce brewer's account books safe from fire, this small plastered storehouse in Midori City, Gunma, was registered in 2013.

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.

A late-Edo headman's house in Naganohara, Gunma, which served as a rest house for daimyo on the Shinshu Kaido. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.

A brick gate of 1916 on the Kiryu campus of Gunma University, listed in 1998 for its design. Gothic canopies crown all four faces of each pier, with lamps above.

Built in 1930 and registered in 2006, the only surviving station of the Kusakaru Electric Railway keeps Hosei University's initial worked into its entrance transom.

A two-storey wooden village hall of 1958, registered in 2020 and open free as Takasaki's folk museum, with its clerical floor and assembly chamber little altered.

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

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