Important cultural property

The 1913 Church of St. Matthew at Toyohashi is a wooden Orthodox sanctuary attributed to Kawamura Izo, Aichi's oldest, named an Important Cultural Property in 2008.

Built in 1911 as a merchant family's villa in Handa, Aichi, this half-timbered house attributed to Suzuki Teiji became an Important Cultural Property in 1976.

Completed in 1922, this Nagoya courthouse is Japan's oldest surviving court of appeals. Free entry to its Neo-Baroque stairwell and restored 1922 conference room.

Nagoya City Hall, finished in 1933 and still in daily use, sets tiled Japanese roofs on a Western frame. Its marble atrium and 100-metre corridor are free to walk.

Built in 1936 and reopened in 2021 after eight years of repair, this Nagoya glasshouse is Japan's oldest public conservatory and an early all-welded building.

Only four buildings at Nagoya Castle carry Important Cultural Property status. A guide to the three corner turrets and the Omote Ninomon gate, with visiting details.

Two Important Cultural Property gates at Nagoya Castle, built around 1612 in the defensive korai-mon style. Both survived the 1945 air raids that razed the keep.

Completed in 1954 and designated in 2022, Nagoya TV Tower was Japan's first shared broadcast tower. On Naito Tachu's engineering, its seismic retrofit and visiting.

Built on Kyoto's Kawaramachi in 1907 and rebuilt at Meiji Mura in 1964, this Anglican church pairs a brick ground floor with a timber hall under bamboo ceilings.

Hazu Shrine in Nishio City, Aichi, has three Important Cultural Property halls in a row above Mikawa Bay: a main hall of 1580 and two early Edo subsidiary halls.

The 1477 main hall of Hachimangu in Toyokawa is a three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine with a cypress-bark roof, the official Hachiman shrine of old Mikawa province.

Hasshokan, a Nagoya ryotei grown from an 1880s timber merchant's villa, had nine buildings designated in 2020, centered on Horiguchi Sutemi's imperial Miyuki-no-ma.

The Tahōtō Pagoda at Higashi Kannonji Temple in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property built around 1528. This three-bay pagoda masterfully blends Chinese Zen and Japanese architectural styles. Having survived the devastating Hōei tsunami of 1707, it stands as a rare and precious example of late Muromachi-period Buddhist architecture, featuring a distinctive white-plastered kamebara and elegant shingled roof.

Discover the Horaiji Niomon Gate, an Important Cultural Property built by Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1651. Explore intricate carvings, 1,425 stone steps, and the spiritual beauty of Mt. Horaiji in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture.

The Former Hotta Family Residence in Tsushima, Aichi, is an Owari merchant townhouse of 1765 and 1770, designated in 1978. Three storehouses and a tea room survive.

Discover Mandara-ji Shoin, an Important Cultural Property in Konan, Aichi. This Muromachi-style shoin reception hall served as a war council site before the Battle of Sekigahara and hosted shogunal inspectors during the Edo period. Visit during the famous Wisteria Festival.

Discover Mandaraji Temple's Main Hall (Shodo), an Important Cultural Property in Konan City, Aichi. Built in 1632 with a design inspired by the Imperial Shishinden, this Jodo sect temple also offers spectacular wisteria gardens each spring.

Discover the Tahoto (multi-storied pagoda) at Mantokuji Temple in Inazawa, Aichi — an Important Cultural Property from the Muromachi period, featuring elegant cypress bark roofing and classic Japanese architectural beauty.

Tucked into the grounds of Mantokuji—Aichi's famed Peony Temple in Inazawa City—stands the Chinjudo, a small shrine built in 1530 in the single-bay Nagare-zukuri style with a cypress-bark roof. This nationally designated Important Cultural Property preserves the refined craftsmanship of late Muromachi-period architecture, just an 8-minute walk from JR Inazawa Station.

Step inside Japan's only surviving early-Meiji prefectural office, a 54-meter pseudo-Western masterpiece of 1879 that hosted Emperor Meiji and now stands relocated at Meiji Mura in Inuyama, Aichi.