Important Cultural Property of Kagawa
香 川 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Kagawa’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
Kenzo Tange completed this Takamatsu government office in 1958, recasting the columns and beams of Japanese tradition in concrete over an open civic piloti.
On a Kagawa hilltop that was once Nio Castle stands Kakujoin's two-storied bell tower, a Momoyama work with a flared hakamagoshi base, still rung each New Year.
Explore Kannon-ji Kondo, an Important Cultural Property in Kagawa Prefecture. This Edo-period main hall preserves Muromachi-era craftsmanship on Shikoku's 88 Temple Pilgrimage at the unique two-temple-in-one precinct.
An 18th-century farmhouse from southern Ehime, now at Shikoku Mura near Yashima. The whole raised floor is split bamboo, and a paper-mulberry kettle survives inside.
Built in the late Kamakura period on reused Nara lecture-hall foundations, Sanuki Kokubunji's main hall shelters a 5.2-meter Thousand-Armed Kannon, a hidden Buddha.
Built in 1878, the Batsujoden purification hall at Kotohira-gu became an Important Cultural Property in 2024, one of twelve shrine buildings on Mount Zozu in Kagawa.
Discover the Former Zentsuji Kaikosha, a Renaissance-style wooden building from 1903 in Kagawa Prefecture. Once an Imperial Japanese Army officers' club, this Important Cultural Property now welcomes visitors with free tours, a café, and elegant event spaces.
Discover Nabeshima Lighthouse, an Important Cultural Property on Nabeshima Island in Kagawa Prefecture. Designed by Richard Henry Brunton in 1872, this stone lighthouse is the oldest in the Seto Inland Sea and still guides ships through the Bisan Seto passage today.
Completed in 1917 for Count Matsudaira on the third bailey of Takamatsu Castle, this villa hides Western roof trusses above its 142-mat hall. Designated 2012.
Five arches on six buttresses, raised in 1929 by the Kagawa farmers who would drink the water. This concrete irrigation dam still works, and admission is free.
A mid-18th-century thatched farmhouse in Sanuki City, Kagawa, designated in 1971. Its earthen doza floor and bamboo-slat zashiki survive. Free entry, closed Mondays.
Completed in 1660 and designated in 1943, Marugame's keep is the smallest of Japan's twelve original towers, set on its tallest stonework. Open 9:00-16:30, 400 yen.
A Muromachi hall on Shodoshima, begun in 1522 and finished in 1533, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1907. Its 23 inscribed tiles are shown inside.
The mid-Muromachi gate of Motoyamaji, temple 70 on the Shikoku pilgrimage in Mitoyo. Protected nationally since 1904, it opens onto a National Treasure main hall.
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