Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kanagawa

Built in 1933 as a railway tunnel was bored through the ridge beneath it, this Yokohama house hides a corridor-based modern plan behind a wholly Japanese exterior.

A 1912 wooden Western-style villa beside Ōiso Station, registered in 2012 and thought to be Japan's earliest two-by-four house. It now runs as a restaurant.

Built in 1933 as a Tokyo clinic's Fujisawa branch, this registered property moves air with a raised floor, double bay windows and three monitor roofs on the ridge.

The Former Kondo Residence in Fujisawa, a villa of 1925 by Endo Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, was moved from Tsujido and shows his horizontal style.

The 1895 first-class isolation lodge of the Nagahama Quarantine Station, registered in 2018 and relocated in 2025 to Umi-no-Koen in Yokohama.

The first ward of the Nankoin sanatorium in Chigasaki, Kanagawa, built in 1899, is a weatherboarded ward with pedimented sash windows, seen from a memorial garden.

Built in 1931, Shogenji Kuri is the priests' quarters of a Rinzai temple in Hakone. Registered in 2002, it keeps a central-corridor plan and a formal writing alcove.

Shogenji Hondo in Hakone began around 1904 as banker Imamura Shigezo's villa, was moved here in 1932, and became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2002.

Yugyo-ji's stone and mud walls turn at right angles from the main gate to enclose the forecourt. Its coursed andesite stone wall, about 1.9 metres high, is late Edo work.

Ugajinja, in the far north of the Yugyo-ji precinct, is a shrine of just 3.6 square metres yet dense with carving, the smallest of the temple's ten registered structures.

The Ekodo is a small memorial hall on a rise northwest of Yugyo-ji's Main Hall. Under its pyramidal copper roof sits a raised, finely latticed ceiling. Early Showa work.

Reached by a corridor behind the Obankata, Yugyo-ji's Small Shoin served official duties and guest receptions, its two rows of rooms ending in alcove-fitted inner rooms.

Yugyo-ji's Obankata is the formal reception building of the residential quarters. Its large carved irimoya porch served the head priest's departures. Built in 1913.

Yugyo-ji's bell tower stands on a raised stone base, an open bay of 1934 with inward-leaning octagonal posts. Its bell bears a 1356 inscription, a prefectural property.

Yugyo-ji's Somon is a large black gate about 7.2 metres tall, the local Kuromon, facing the old Tokaido at Fujisawa-juku. Registered with its walls for landscape value.

The pavilion before Yugyo-ji's Main Hall is a single open bay dense with carving, from openwork beam-ends to animals among the brackets. It is early Meiji work.

Yugyo-ji's Hundred-ken Corridor links the Main Hall to the reception quarters, rising and turning with the sloping precinct, its walls lined with pointed-arch windows.

Shojoko-ji's 1937 Main Hall, seat of the Ji-shu sect in Fujisawa, spans roughly 30 metres each way, its central sanctuary wrapped in outer bays under high ceilings.

Showa Denko Kawasaki Factory Head Office: a 1931 two-storey concrete office on reclaimed land in Kawasaki, built for an ammonia works and still in use today.

The gate of Minato Junior High School in Yokohama reuses the Art Deco stone pillars and lamps of Hanazono Bridge, built in 1928 after the Great Kanto Earthquake.

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