Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gunma

Discover the Water Museum in Kiryu, Gunma — a 1932 reinforced concrete office building with distinctive scratch tile walls. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcases Japan's early modern waterworks infrastructure and architectural design.

Discover Suidoyama Memorial Hall in Kiryu, Gunma — a 1932 wooden building with scratch tile walls and Spanish roof tiles, inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright. This nationally registered tangible cultural property offers free admission and panoramic city views.

Just a two-minute walk from JR Takasaki Station, surrounded by modern office towers, stands a two-story wooden inn from 1932 that is still in active use today. Founded in 1879 and famed during the war years as a station-front ryokan in the military city of Takasaki—and later as a favored retreat of novelist Shiba Ryotaro—Toyodaya Ryokan Main Building is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, prized for its irimoya roof, gable-entry plan, and graceful karahafu entrance.

Standing in Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture, the Niijima Gakuen Junior College Research Building is the only surviving circular schoolhouse in Gunma. Built in 1956 as the schoolhouse of Takasaki Municipal Girls' High School, this three-story reinforced concrete cylinder was designed by Kanao Sakamoto, the Japanese architect celebrated for his circular school designs. With a spiral staircase at its core and five fan-shaped classrooms arranged around the perimeter, the building was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018. Discover this remarkable survivor of Japan's 1950s architectural experimentation.

A 1920 wooden pastor's residence at Annaka Church in Gunma, whose 8- and 10-mat tatami rooms are said to be from a former Annaka domain retainer's mansion.

At Annaka Church in Gunma sits Gientei, a 1935 wooden study built for pastor Kashiwagi Gien, whose 459-issue monthly opposed Japan's wars and empire until 1936.

At Ōana Onsen in Minakami, Gunma, this bath sits deep in a tunnel hewn into the bedrock, where Moralogy's founder Hiroike Chikuro convalesced. It was listed in 2025.

At Ōana in Minakami, this changing room has a double cedar-bark roof and an exposed king-post truss. Hiroike Chikuro died at this site in 1938; it was listed in 2025.

At Tanigawa in Minakami stands a shrine of about 7.3 square metres enshrining Amaterasu, clad in cedar bark and built in 1936. It was listed in 2025.

At Tanigawa Onsen in Minakami stands Reitaku-kan, a single-storey retreat with a bath on its east end. Hiroike Chikuro stayed here in his final years; listed in 2025.

Discover the Hirosegawa Museum of Art in Maebashi, Gunma — a 1948 International Style artist's atelier turned museum. Japan's first postwar building registered as a national tangible cultural property, featuring Western-style paintings and vintage gramophone concerts by the scenic Hirose River.

The smallest of the eight Fujiu buildings in Kiryu, Gunma, this early-Meiji shelter guards an Edo-period Inari shrine. Private; not open to the public.

A two-story early-Meiji retirement house at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, joined to the main house across a garden. Private; not open to the public.

A two-story plastered kura at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, attached to the main house to shield stored goods from fire. Private; not open to the public.

An early-Meiji bracket gate at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, moved intact in 1973 when the road was widened. Private; not open to the public.

The oldest of the eight Fujiu buildings in Kiryu, Gunma, this late-Edo farmhouse carries a broad thatched irimoya roof. Private; not open to the public.

Early-Meiji working buildings at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma: a water mill and storehouse under one tiled roof. Private; not open to the public.

An early-Meiji roofed timber wall on a stone footing at the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma; about 24 meters survive. Private; not open to the public.

A small early-Meiji shoin-style tea room in the garden of the Fujiu residence in Kiryu, Gunma, with an open veranda. Private; not open to the public.

Discover Bunbuku Sake Brewery Shop (Kezuka Memorial Hall), a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Tatebayashi, Gunma. This beautifully preserved late Edo-period machiya showcases traditional Japanese merchant architecture and nearly 200 years of sake-brewing heritage.

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

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