Important Cultural Property of Hiroshima

Discover the Araki Family Residence, an Important Cultural Property in Shobara, Hiroshima. This 18th-century thatched-roof home of a hereditary Shinto priest showcases rare architectural features of the Chugoku region's mountain villages.

Discover Ankokuji Shakado, an Important Cultural Property in Tomonoura, Fukuyama. This Muromachi-period Zen-style hall houses precious Buddhist statues and a karesansui garden, set in one of Japan's most beautiful historic port towns.

Discover the Oku Family Residence (Oku-ke Jutaku) in Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture—a beautifully preserved 1788 farmhouse and storehouse designated as a national Important Cultural Property. Explore its five-layered beam structure, rare internal storehouse, and the heritage of a village headman family in rural Japan.

Katsurahama Shrine's main hall on Kurahashi Island, near Kure, dates to 1480 by its ridge tag, a Muromachi hall rare in the region for round eaves pillars.

Dated to 1665 by an inscribed ridge tile, the Former Kihara Family Residence in Hiroshima housed sake-brewing salt merchants and keeps a rare early townhouse plan.

Kibitsu Shrine's main hall in Fukuyama, an Important Cultural Property rebuilt in 1648 by lord Mizuno Katsunari, is nearly 18.5 m wide with a Buddhist-hall interior.

Discover the Komyobo Thirteen-Story Stone Pagoda, an Important Cultural Property built in 1294 on Ikuchijima Island along the Shimanami Kaido. This 8.5-meter granite tower reflects the artistry and Buddhist devotion of the Kamakura period.

Discover Shunpukan, the Important Cultural Property residence of Confucian scholar Rai Shunpu in Takehara, Hiroshima. Explore this elegant samurai-style townhouse connected to Rai Sanyo and Japan's Edo-period intellectual heritage.

Discover the World Peace Memorial Cathedral in Hiroshima, designed by Murano Togo in 1954. A symbol of peace built with global donations, it was the first postwar building designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan.

Discover the Hatayama Family Residence in Miyoshi, Hiroshima — a mid-18th century thatched-roof farmhouse designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan, featuring archaic construction techniques and a dramatic relocation story.

On Miyajima, this garden erosion-control works rebuilt a typhoon-hit valley as fieldstone dams and pools, Japan's first postwar civil-engineering cultural property.

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

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

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.