Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Hiroshima

The brewery's smallest building, this 16-square-metre late-Meiji storehouse was moved whole by hikiya, its near-windowless walls edged with water-shedding tiles.

This large Taisho storehouse divides into East and Middle halves across a ground-floor passage, its white great-walls and red tile defining the Saijo brewery street.

Joining the passage on the west, this late-Taisho storehouse was refaced with namako-kabe under Shigemori Mirei's direction as the backdrop to the New Zashiki garden.

Discover Kanrankan, a nationally registered tangible cultural property on Shimokamagari Island in Kure, Hiroshima. This 1935 villa uniquely blends Chinese brick-style design with Japanese craftsmanship, standing along the scenic Seto Inland Sea coast.

Discover the Former Etajima Naval Petty Officers' Club (Kaiyusha), a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1907. This rare wooden Western-style building on Etajima Island preserves the legacy of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy with its original brick foundations, clapboard walls, and sash windows.

Explore Kaiyusha, a rare wooden Western-style building from 1905 on Etajima Island, Hiroshima. This Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property preserves the history of Japan's Imperial Naval Academy and offers visitors a unique glimpse into Meiji-era military architecture.

Discover the Former Ōkusa Elementary School Hōanden in Mihara, Hiroshima — a rare stone structure from 1936 blending Doric columns with Japanese design. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property, this unique monument offers a window into Japan's prewar educational history.

Discover the Former Onomichi City Hall Momoshima Branch Office, a 1954 wooden government building on Momoshima Island, now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and creative guesthouse run by NPO ART BASE Momoshima. Explore its kingpost truss architecture, island art scene, and serene Seto Inland Sea setting.

Discover the Former Katano Bakery, a 1934 wooden bakery registered as a national tangible cultural property in the white-walled Edo-era post town of Joge, Fuchu City, Hiroshima Prefecture. A hidden gem of early Showa architecture and local bread-making heritage.

The Former Hinomaru Photo Studio, a three-story wooden building constructed around 1932 near Takehara's historic preservation district in Hiroshima Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Discover the distinctive angular silhouette shaped by its trapezoidal lot, windows designed around photographic studio functions, and its fame as an anime pilgrimage site from the series Tamayura.

Discover Sakura Bridge (Sakurahashi), a registered tangible cultural property in Hiroshima Prefecture. This elegant 1937 steel arch bridge spans Lake Shinryu in Taishaku Gorge, offering stunning views of the gorge from the hiking trail and pleasure boats below.

This small early-Showa tea room off the annex covers just 10 square meters. Its two-mat space opens south and west to the garden, admitting light in a modern spirit.

This 1893 earthen storehouse pairs white plaster with a boarded base. Its projecting drip tiles, peaked at the gable ends, turn rain-shedding into crisp form.

Added in 1909, this reception wing opens to a pond garden. Its great room holds the finest carving on the site, including peonies with a lion cut from one Yakusugi board.

Built in 1891 by the Hozawa merchants, this is old Higashijo's largest town house, known for its layered yatsumune roof and black-plaster wall of flower windows.

This early-Showa gate and wall guard the site's east front. A single-bay armgate meets a 13-meter wall, both in fine zelkova, lending the boundary a quiet dignity.

Discover Jihou-tou, a 1922 Art Deco concrete bell tower in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property was built with an American-made bell donated by Japanese emigrants and still sounds a siren five times daily.

Discover Shōraitei, a nationally registered tangible cultural property on Shimokamagari Island in Kure, Hiroshima. Originally built in 1936 by sukiya master Hirata Masaya, this exquisite tea pavilion features handcrafted chestnut engawa and a refined three-tatami-daime tea room.

Registered in 2011, Shorinbo's 1934 Onari-no-ma housed honoured guests: three rooms, a shoin alcove suite, and a bath at the rear. Deliberately plainer than the Kyakuden.

Shorinbo's 1744 bell tower packs base blocks, tapered columns, two-stepped brackets and kaerumata struts into sixteen square metres. No walls, so the frame is on show.