Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

Discover the Shigeta Family Residence in Manno Town, Kagawa—a collection of six nationally registered cultural properties showcasing upper-class Meiji-era farming architecture. Explore the historic nagaya gate, main house, and connecting corridor along the ancient Hashikura pilgrimage road.

Discover the Awaya Okada Residence Gate Longhouse and Storage Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Sakate, Shodoshima. This Edo-period merchant estate offers a glimpse into the maritime trade heritage of the Seto Inland Sea.

Discover the Isono Family Residence in Zentsuji, Kagawa — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1930 that beautifully combines traditional Japanese residential design with a charming Western-style wing. Explore this architectural gem near the birthplace of Kobo Daishi.

Built in 1818 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 110 sq m hall sets four rooms in a grid and survives as a trace of the temple that once shared the precincts.

Built in mid-Meiji Japan at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 27 sq m two-storey earthen storehouse hides a Western roof truss behind tiled gables and plaster.

Built in 1931 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 162 sq m office takes a central-corridor house plan and carries a formal tiled entrance porch at one end.

Built in 1941 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 19 sq m hall for ritual food offerings pairs the simplest bracketing with a finely dressed cut-stone plinth.

Built in 1935 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 1.8 sq m sanctuary for the war dead keeps balustrade, veranda, stair and packed brackets at miniature scale.

Ubushina Shrine Main Hall in Utazu, Kagawa, was raised at Ise in 1953 as the Takanomiya sanctuary and moved here in 1976: a 22 sq m shinmei hall on buried posts.

Raised in 1874 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 37 sq m tiled hall omits bracketing across its body and gathers all carving, a wave motif, at the canopy.

Built in 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 67 sq m registered hall puts a gabled offering room behind the worship hall, dragon and phoenix at the door.

Built in 1934 in Utazu, Kagawa, this 6.2 sq m salt-deity sanctuary at Ubushina Shrine layers two gables over packed bracketing, and is listed as a model of design.

Built around 1934 at Ubushina Shrine in Utazu, Kagawa, this 9.6-metre earthen storehouse for festival palanquins sets black render below white plaster, tiled above.

Discover Okawa Sake Shop, a magnificent Meiji-era sake merchant's house in Zentsuji, Kagawa. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property features striking black plaster walls, ornamental kote-e reliefs, and a gently curved tile roof that evokes the prosperity of early 20th-century rural Japan.

Discover the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Koji Storehouse, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Taisho era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. Explore its unique double-wall construction designed for koji fermentation and the island's 400-year soy sauce brewing tradition.

Explore the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Fermenting Storehouse (Shikomi-gura), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Meiji era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa. Founded in 1844, this is the oldest soy sauce brewery on the island with over 180 years of brewing tradition.

Explore the Omori Soy Sauce Brewery Press Room and Operation Room, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Taisho era on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa. Discover the 180-year history of Yamatoichi soy sauce and the island's brewing heritage.

Ogijima Lighthouse, located at the northern tip of Ogijima Island in the Seto Inland Sea, Kagawa Prefecture, is a rare unpainted granite lighthouse built in 1895. Designated as a national Important Cultural Property in 2026, it is one of only three unpainted lighthouses in Japan. Discover this stunning Aji granite beacon, the adjacent museum, seasonal daffodil fields, and the art-filled island culture of Ogijima.

A curving Aji-granite wall, 78 meters long, holds the seaward edge of the 1895 Ogijima Lighthouse. Its sloped tanizumi masonry has withstood a century of Seto storms.

Built in 1919, the Ogijima Lighthouse gate and wall join concrete posts to andesite and brick some 82 meters long, capped in Aji granite. A plain, weighty entrance.