Important Cultural Property of Hiroshima
広 島 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Hiroshima’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
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.
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