Important cultural property

195 finds from the terminal-phase tombs of Tangotai in Hachinohe, Aomori, an Important Cultural Property since 2018, including a unique sword pommel and warabite swords.

Built in 1628 as the main gate of Hodai-in, a Tokugawa mortuary temple in Sunpu, this vermilion gate moved to Oshokyoin in 1918 and is now under restoration.

Lit in 1874 on Cape Omaezaki in Shizuoka, this brick tower carried Japan's first rotating first-order lens. Designated in 2021, it remains open to climb.

Built in 1874 beside the tower at Omaezaki, Shizuoka, this brick house held keepers for 125 years. Designated in 2021, it now displays a rediscovered machine.

Kakegawa Castle Goten, rebuilt from 1855 to 1861, is one of just four daimyo palaces left on castle grounds in Japan, with halls, quarters and offices nearly intact.

The Hotokusha public hall in Kakegawa, built in 1903 for the Hotoku movement, is Japanese below and Western above, with galleries round an 81-mat hall.

Rebuilt in bare zelkova after the 1854 Tokai earthquake and carved by the Izu Ozawa school, the linked halls of Mishima Taisha are an Important Cultural Property.

A vermilion three-story pagoda on a wooded slope at Yusan-ji, Fukuroi. Built from 1574 to 1611, it blends Japanese and continental styles, a noted Momoyama pagoda.

Yusanji's gate was raised in 1659 at Kakegawa Castle and moved here in 1873. Listed as castle architecture, it is the only castle gate of its era left in Shizuoka.

A gilded miniature shrine in Yusan-ji's hillside Yakushi hall, this Important Cultural Property of about 1588 holds a hidden Medicine Buddha opened once a century.

Rinzai-ji's main hall in Shizuoka, a Zen abbot's hall 22.7 meters wide, became an Important Cultural Property in 1983 and once taught the young Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Reizan-ji Niōmon, a thatched 1516 gate on Mount Ōuchi above Shimizu, is the prefecture's second-oldest building. Its Niō statues returned in 2026 after restoration.

1,064 Kofun-period clay figures and objects from the Myogashima tombs in Iwata, Shizuoka, an Important Cultural Property since 2013, showing the rites of the time.

Discover the Cross and Manji Karakusa Mother-of-Pearl Inlay Box, an Important Cultural Property of Japan housed at the MOA Museum of Art in Atami, Shizuoka. This Momoyama-era black-lacquer box fuses Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Christian, and Nanban motifs in a single dazzling raden composition.

Held by the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, this Important Cultural Property is a fragment of an annual tax register prepared in 732 CE for Otagi District in Yamashiro Province, the area of present-day northern Kyoto. Preserving fifty-nine lines of original Nara-period writing, it is the most substantial keichō document surviving outside the Shōsōin treasury — a precious primary source for understanding ancient Japanese administration and society.

Held at Hie Shrine in Numazu, Shizuoka, the Sannō Reigenki is a Kamakura-period illustrated handscroll dated 1288. Designated an Important Cultural Property, it is the oldest surviving work in its tradition, recording the shrine's founding legend and the spread of Sannō belief.

The Choryutei of Enuma Shrine in Kaga, Ishikawa, built in 1709 as a riverside rest house of the Daishoji lords, is a shingled hall where they took tea.

Built in 1643 by a Kaga lord for his great-grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, this vermilion shrine in Kanazawa is the earliest surviving Tōshō-gū with separated halls.

One of three Edo-period buildings to survive the 1881 fire at Kanazawa Castle, this 48-metre lead-tiled turret became an Important Cultural Property in 1957.

The Former Ishikawa Second Middle School in Kanazawa, built in 1899 with spires and pediments, is an Important Cultural Property and now a museum of local life.