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 Amida Hall of Daisenji on Mount Daisen, Tottori, rebuilt in 1552 after a landslide, is the oldest hall of the temple, a grand frame housing a 12th-century Amida.
The shrine cabinet in the main hall of Hasedera in Kurayoshi, Tottori, a late Muromachi Zen-style work for the eleven-headed Kannon, keeps its original roofing.
The Iwayado of Fudoin in Wakasa, Tottori, is a raised kakezukuri hall of the early Muromachi period (1333 to 1392), three bays square under a board roof.
The Yabe Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, a large thatched hip-and-gable farmhouse of the early Edo period (1615 to 1660), is one of the oldest in the prefecture.
Izumo Hinomisaki Lighthouse rises 43.65 metres, Japan's tallest stone tower. Built in 1903, its double wall pairs cut stone with brick. Important Cultural Property, 2022.
Unjuji Shikyakumon in Yasugi, Shimane, is an early Muromachi four-legged gate designated in 1904. It outlasted the 1820 fire that took most of the temple's halls.
Beside the National Treasure main hall of Kamosu Shrine in Matsue stands a rare two-bay shrine of 1583, built to hold Kifune and Inari under one shingled roof.
Kandenan and Kogetsutei in Matsue, Shimane, are tea rooms built around 1792 to daimyo Matsudaira Fumai's own drawing. A 42cm board keeps the one-mat room open.
Former Taisha Station in Izumo, Shimane, built in 1924, is one of only three station buildings holding Important Cultural Property status. It reopened in 2026.
The Main Hall of Kiyomizudera in Yasugi, Shimane, built in 1393, is the only building on Mount Zuiko to survive sixteenth-century warfare. Entry is free.
The main hall of Someha Amenoiwakatsu Shrine in Masuda, Shimane, built in 1583, is a three-bay nagare-style hall roofed in cypress bark, designated in 1929.
The halls of Takuhi Shrine on Nishinoshima in the Oki Islands, built 1673 to 1902 and set into the mountain rock, honour a guardian of sailors on the Sea of Japan.
A late Edo farmhouse in Yoshika, Shimane, 7.6 by 6.0 metres with a thatched hip-and-gable roof, showing the form of a small ordinary farmhouse. Designated in 1969.
An 18th-century farmhouse in Unnan, Shimane, and an Important Cultural Property. Its great hall is held open without posts by raised nobori-bari beams.
The main hall of Manpukuji in Masuda, Shimane, built in 1374, is a large hipped hall seven bays square at a temple with one of the two Sesshu gardens of Masuda.
The main hall of Mizuwakasu Shrine on Oki, Shimane, built in 1795, is a large thatched hall of the local Oki type, plain and strong, with full building records.
The main hall of Miho Shrine at Mihonoseki, Matsue, built in 1813, joins two taisha-style halls for Ebisu and Mihotsuhime, the largest and oldest of its kind.
Discover the Former Asakura House (Kyu Asakura House), an Important Cultural Property in Daikanyama, Tokyo. Built in 1919, this Taisho-era wooden mansion features elegant tatami rooms, detailed woodwork, and a stunning hillside strolling garden with stone lanterns and seasonal foliage.
Eitai Bridge over the Sumida in Tokyo, a steel tied-arch bridge of 1926 built after the Great Kanto Earthquake, had the longest steel arch span in Japan.
A late Muromachi Amida hall at Shiofune Kannonji in Ome, Tokyo, designated in 1946: a small sanctuary ringed by an aisle, never finished, copper-roofed since 1961.