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, Kanagawa, is a 1925 seaside villa designed by Endo Arata, Frank Lloyd Wright's most devoted Japanese protégé. Now a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this Taisho-era masterpiece blends Wrightian Prairie School horizontality with traditional Japanese living. Saved by a grassroots citizens' movement and relocated to the Fujisawa Civic Hall garden in 1981, it is open to the public free of charge.

Discover the Former Nagahama Quarantine Station Detention House No. 1 in Yokohama's Umi-no-Kōen Park—a Registered Tangible Cultural Property dating from 1895 with ties to Dr. Hideyo Noguchi, now relocated and preserved as a cultural landmark.

The Former Nankoin First Ward in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Meiji-era wooden building constructed in 1899 as the inaugural ward of Nankoin, a tuberculosis sanatorium once hailed as the greatest in East Asia. Now a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this historic structure connected to literary figures such as Kunikida Doppo can be viewed within the Nankoin Memorial Taiyo-no-Sato 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.

Built in 1931 as the headquarters of Showa Fertilizers (now Resonac Corporation), this two-story reinforced concrete office building is a representative example of early Showa factory architecture in the Keihin Industrial Zone. Constructed by Shimizu-gumi, it features a restrained exterior and elegant Western-style interior with stained glass and ornamental details. The site witnessed Japan's first successful ammonia synthesis using domestic technology, and was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1999 and certified as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization in 2007.

Standing near Yokohama Chinatown, these imposing Art Deco-style stone gate pillars were originally built in 1928 as bridge pillars for the Hanazono Bridge over the Ha-Ōoka River, part of the post-Great Kanto Earthquake reconstruction. Recognized as the largest bridge pillars among Yokohama's reconstruction-era bridges, they are registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property.