Important cultural property

A late Muromachi eight-legged gate at Shiofune Kannonji in Ome, Tokyo, designated in 1946: gabled thatch, a Daihisan board and guardian kings once credited to Unkei.

A late Muromachi hall at Shiofune Kannonji in Ome, Tokyo, designated in 1946: a thatched esoteric hall and shrine cabinet with a hidden Kannon shown 4 times a year.

Completed in 1933 at Shirokanedai, Tokyo, the Former Residence of Prince Asaka was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2015. Lalique glass survives inside.

Completed in 1924 where the Arakawa splits from the Sumida, this concrete sluice by Aoyama Akira became an Important Cultural Property in 2024. Free to visit.

Soto-Sakuradamon holds the largest masugata court left at Edo Castle and the ground where Ii Naosuke fell in 1860. Free to pass, and lit nightly until 9 p.m.

Tayasumon in Kitanomaru Park is the oldest surviving building at Edo Castle, dated to 1636 by an inscription on its door fittings. Free to walk through at any hour.

The First Factory of the former Brewing Research Institute in Kita, Tokyo, built in 1904 by Tsumaki Yorinaka after German breweries, is a vaulted brick sake plant.

The Kiyosu Bridge of 1928 over the Sumida in Tokyo, a self-anchored chain suspension bridge of the post-earthquake rebuilding, was modelled on a bridge at Cologne.

The only building Le Corbusier designed in Japan, opened in 1959. Its pilotis, central hall and spiral ramp embody his concept of a Museum of Unlimited Growth.

The Gekkoden at Gokokuji in Bunkyo, Tokyo, a Momoyama reception hall from the Nikkoin of Miidera, was moved here in 1928 and greets visitors with a cusped gable.

The main hall of Gokokuji in Bunkyo, Tokyo, a seven-bay Kannon hall built in 1697 on the orders of the shogun Tsunayoshi, enshrines a hidden image of Kannon.

Built in 1910 as the Imperial Guards command office, this Kitanomaru Park landmark is a rare Meiji brick survivor and a scene of the 1945 surrender-night coup.

The Kobayashi Family Residence, a thatched farmhouse at 750 meters on a ridge in Hinohara, west Tokyo, was built in the early 1700s and is reached by monorail.

The Niomon Gate of Takahata Fudoson in Hino, Tokyo, a late Muromachi gate, was restored to its planned two-storey form in 1959 and houses Muromachi guardian kings.

The Fudo Hall of Takahata Fudoson in Hino, Tokyo, rebuilt at the foot of the hill in 1342 after a gale, is a five-bay hall the temple calls the oldest in Tokyo.

The Former Jurin-in Treasure House, now in the Tokyo National Museum grounds, is a small log-built storehouse of the early Kamakura period (1185 to 1274).

The former imperial rest house in Shinjuku Gyoen, Tokyo, a Western-style timber lodge of 1896 by the Imperial Household Ministry, is the only one of its kind left.

Denpoin, the head residence of Sensoji in Asakusa, keeps six buildings from 1776 to 1918, a rare survival of a great Edo temple residence beside its garden.

The Nitenmon Gate of Sensoji in Asakusa, Tokyo, built around 1649 as the gate of a lost Toshogu shrine, survived war and earthquake with its triple-ridge ceilings.

Built in 1632 as the outer gate of the second shogun's mausoleum at Zojoji, this gate is the only part still standing on its own ground after the 1945 air raid.