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.
The Shinchokokuji Temple Daishi Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hipped-roof hall 17 m west of the main hall, designated in 1953, tied to the Shingon lineage.
The Shinchokokuji Temple Tutelary Deity Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi three-bay nagare-zukuri shrine inside a Buddhist temple, designated in 1953.
Rebuilt in 1460, the Shinchokokuji Temple Main Hall in Seki, Gifu, pairs Muromachi beams inside with a Momoyama porch of lion carvings. What to see, and the rules.
The Shinchokokuji Temple Yakushi Hall in Seki, Gifu, is a late Muromachi hipped-roof hall of 4 by 3 bays, designated in 1953. Its central post, ridge, pagoda view.
Village headman's farmhouse of 1809 moved to the Hida Folk Village in Takayama. Seven building ledgers survive, and it blends Hida and Mino styles. Open to visitors.
Shrine hall of 1564 in Ena, Gifu, enshrining the three Kamakura shoguns: a low hip-and-gable hall with deep eaves and Muromachi brackets, rare in eastern Mino.
Nangu Shrine in Tarui, Gifu, is the first shrine of Mino. Fifteen halls rebuilt for Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1642 and three stone structures are designated.
The late-Kamakura tahoto at Nichiryubuji stands on Mount Takasawa in Seki, traditionally linked to Hojo Masako. It is cypress-bark roofed and free to view.
Built in 1502 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1956, this Muromachi worship hall in Yamagata City, Gifu, keeps its cypress-bark roof. Free entry.
Rising 24.6 metres in the grounds of a Shinto shrine in Godo, Gifu, this late Muromachi pagoda was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1914. Grounds free.
Completed in 1916 across the Nagara River in Mino, Gifu, this 113-metre bridge is Japan's oldest surviving modern suspension bridge. Open to walkers and cyclists.
This late fifteenth-century hall in Yaotsu, Gifu, applies Zen-style building to a small three-bay plan under a thatched roof. An Important Cultural Property.
Known as Kokaya Yakushido, this square hall in Hida City, Gifu, was rebuilt in early Muromachi times from Kamakura-era timbers, as repair work in 1974 confirmed.
Rebuilt in 1907 and designated an Important Cultural Property in 1966, the Yoshijima Residence in Takayama is known for the beam lattice above its earth floor.
Discovered on the floor of Pit Dwelling No. 1 at the Nukatsuka Site in Katano-machi, Takayama, this pair of shallow bowl-shaped Jomon vessels was designated a National Important Cultural Property in 1988. Their flat disk forms, intricate impressed patterns, and rings of small holes preserve evidence of cultural exchange between the Hida highlands and eastern Japan some five thousand years ago. Encounter them at the Hida Takayama Museum of History and Art.
Standing in the precincts of Nagataki Hakusan Shrine in Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, this hexagonal stone lantern bears an inscription dating it to 1302, the late Kamakura period. Carved from andesite and rising over three metres tall, it is decorated with lotus petals, running lions, and a small seated Buddha figure. Designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan, it is one of the finest dated stone lanterns of medieval Japan and a rare surviving witness to the Mino-side centre of Hakusan mountain worship.
390 Momoyama to Edo-period pieces, chiefly Oribe wares, from the Motoyashiki kiln site in Toki, Gifu, an Important Cultural Property since 2013.
Preserved at Entoku-ji Temple in Gifu City, the Rakuichi-Rakuza Seisatsu is a set of four original wooden placards (with one attached) issued by Oda Nobunaga and the Ikeda lords between 1567 and 1584. Posted at the gate of the Kanō market just after Nobunaga renamed Inabayama Castle to Gifu, they survive in remarkable physical form. Designated a Nationally Important Cultural Property in 1993, they are a primary source at the heart of Japan's economic history.
Discover a life-sized early Kamakura-period bronze statue of Akasagarbha Bodhisattva — a nationally designated Important Cultural Property preserved with its original canopy and halo in the remote mountain village of Itoshiro, Gifu. Once the sacred body of Hakusan Chukyo Shrine, this masterpiece embodies the flourishing of Hakusan mountain faith.
A pair of stone komainu at Hiyoshi Shrine in Gōdo, Gifu, designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan. Donated in 1577 by the Sengoku warlord Fuwa Mitsuharu and carved from the famed blue-green Shakudani stone of Echizen, this slender, inscribed pair is a masterpiece of Momoyama-era sculpture.