Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

Explore Kojimaya Dozo, an 1836 Edo-period earthen storehouse in Higashihiroshima's sake brewing district. This registered cultural property features ingenious fire-resistant architecture and connects to the origins of Kamotsuru Sake Brewery. Learn about its history, architectural features, and how to visit this hidden gem in Japan's famous Saijo sake town.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence main house in Shiraichi, Higashihiroshima, is an 1871 ironcasters' townhouse. Metal fittings on its lattice recall the trade. Registered 2025.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence storehouse in Shiraichi is the town's only three-storey kura, built by an ironcasting family in the Taishō era. Registered 2025.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence detached wing in Shiraichi is a refined Meiji guest room and tea room, said to have lodged a prince. Registered 2025 as a design model.

The Ihara Sōjūrō Residence gate and wall edge an old street in Shiraichi. Its stone-stepped yakui-mon gate bears castle-style shachihoko ornaments. Registered 2025.

Explore the Iroha Maru Exhibition Hall in Tomonoura, Fukuyama. Housed in a Registered Tangible Cultural Property warehouse from the Edo period, this museum showcases artifacts from Sakamoto Ryoma's famous 1867 maritime incident and his secret hideout.

Discover Ono Community Hall in Jinsekikogen, Hiroshima — a 1929 wooden schoolhouse registered as a national tangible cultural property. Explore its history, architecture, and rural highland charm.

This small open well house at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima shelters a stone well and the medium-hard water used in every batch of its sake. Registered in 2020.

Rising about twelve metres at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima, this English-bond brick chimney with a banded top is a landmark from the brewery's era of modernising.

The oldest building at Kanemitsu Brewery, this early-Meiji dozo storehouse is where the acclaimed Kamokinshu sake, revived through hand brewing in 2003, is still made.

Running about 39 metres at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima, this long dozo storehouse holds the cold-kept tanks that guard the fresh, lightly sparkling Kamokinshu sake.

Linked by a covered corridor to the main house at Kanemitsu Brewery, this late-Taisho detached building shows the sukiya-refined domestic side of a sake-brewing family.

The Kanemitsu Sake Brewery Bottling House in Kurose-cho, Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property designated in 2020. Eight brewery structures including the bottling house, brewing storehouse, and chimney preserve the culture and history of traditional Japanese sake production since the brewery's founding in 1880. The still-active brewery produces the award-winning Kamo Kinshu sake and features an on-site direct sales shop.

Discover the Kanemitsu Sake Brewery Packaging Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima. Part of an award-winning sake brewery founded in 1880, this historic structure embodies Japan's traditional brewing heritage.

Discover the Gate and Wall of Kanemitsu Sake Brewery in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 2020. Explore the historic brewery compound, its award-winning sake brands Kamo Kinshu and Sakura Fubuki, and the rich sake-making tradition of the Kurose district.

The Nisshin Forestry Co., Ltd. Kake Branch Office in Akiota, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a wooden building originally constructed in 1921 as a bank branch and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Its ingenious design makes a single-story structure appear as a two-story machiya townhouse. Located near attractions such as Sandankyo Gorge and Yoshimizuen Garden, it offers a fascinating glimpse into Taisho-era rural architecture.

East of the storehouses stands this square Taisho brick chimney, about 17.7 metres tall and laid in English bond, kept as a landmark on the Saijo sake street.

Built around 1953 beside the main house, this timber wing wraps a broad veranda toward a garden by Shigemori Mirei, its sukiya rooms planned as one with the view.

This Taisho earthen-walled block links the main house with the storehouses and now works as a store, its masonry recording the layout of the young Kamoizumi brewery.

Facing Saijo's sake street, Kamoizumi Shuzo's late-Meiji main house sets a merchant's earthen passage beside a formal ten-mat guest room behind a latticed front.

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

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