Important cultural property
重 要 文 化 財 一 覧Explore Japan’s Important Cultural Properties in one searchable list. Filter by prefecture, period, and category, read concise stories, and plan visits with maps and travel tips.
Rebuilt in 1509, the tahoto at Chiryu Shrine survived the Meiji separation of Buddhism and Shinto by posing as a library, a rare relic of combined worship.
The two-storey gate of Tsushima Shrine in Aichi, built around 1592 and said to be a gift of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, is a well-proportioned gate of cypress bark.
The main gate of Tenonji in Okazaki, Aichi, a late Muromachi yakuimon under a gabled shingle roof, is an Important Cultural Property before the Buddha hall.
The Buddha hall of Tenonji in Okazaki, Aichi, from the early Muromachi period, is an Important Cultural Property three bays square under cypress bark.
On Mt. Hōrai in Aichi, this shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu is tied to a legend of his birth. Its cypress-bark halls of 1651 are an Important Cultural Property.
A rare wooden three-storey townhouse, the former Tomatsu House traces a Nagoya family's shift from oil to banking; now at Meiji-mura, its stern face hides tea rooms.
Built in 1606, the main hall of Tobe Shrine is the only shrine building in Nagoya designated a national Important Cultural Property, rich in Momoyama-era carving.
The late-Muromachi main hall of Tomiyoshi-Takehaya Shrine in Kanie, a one-bay nagare-zukuri building designated in 1953, is famed for the UNESCO-listed Sunari rite.
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.