Important Cultural Property of Kagawa

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.

Hipped-roof main hall of 1677 at Kannonji, Temple 69 of the Shikoku pilgrimage in Kanonji, Kagawa, which shares its precinct with Temple 68 in a unique pairing.

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.

Twelve buildings atop Kotohira Shrine's 785 steps, rebuilt in plain cypress after the Shinto-Buddhist separation of the 1870s and designated in 2024: dates, details.

Kotohira Shrine's Asahi no Yashiro, the former Golden Hall at step 628, raised in 1837 with carved clouds and panels; an 18-year restoration began in 2024.

Kotohira Shrine's Okushoin, a 1717 residence hall with Itō Jakuchū's 201-flower room and Kishi Gantai's 1844 paintings, usually closed except for special openings.

Kotohira Shrine's Omoteshoin, a 1650s guest hall with Maruyama Ōkyo's tigers and waterfall, and its carved Four-Legged Gate: designation, rooms, hours and fees.

Timber officers' club of the army's 11th Division, completed in 1903 in Zentsuji, Kagawa; restored to its original Renaissance-style form and open free to visitors.

Early-Meiji stone lighthouse on Nabeshima, Sakaide, Kagawa, among the first built under Richard Henry Brunton; its grounds are open, with views of the Seto Ohashi.

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.

Granite lighthouse of 1895 at the tip of Ogijima in the Bisan Strait, walls left unpainted, made an Important Cultural Property in 2026 with two brick buildings.