Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kanagawa

Shinzanso (Former Fujiyama Raita Villa) is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built around 1921 in Hakone's Gora district as the mountain retreat of industrialist Fujiyama Raita. The villa blends Japanese thatched-roof sukiya rooms with a Western-style dining wing, skillfully utilizing the steep terrain to create a varied and inventive architectural composition. Located within the nationally designated scenic garden Shinsenkyō, it can be visited as part of the Hakone Museum of Art grounds.

A sixteen-meter garden wall at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura stacks earth and tile in nine courses on a cobble base, built with the tea room around 1956.

The machiai at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a tiny tea-ceremony waiting arbor of cedar logs and bark-faced walls, built around 1956 and now registered.

The gate at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a single-bay bracket of polished logs with a copper roof, a middle gate on the approach and now registered.

Reigenkaku in Hase, Kamakura, is a 1918 sukiya villa by Yamamoto Jotaro. Now a registered cultural property, it survived the 1923 earthquake and overlooks Yuigahama.

A 1932 house near Zushi Beach pairing a reformist corridor plan with older tatami rooms, still keeping the shed GHQ built when the property was requisitioned.

Discover the Sudo Family Residence Former Boiler Room in Zushi, a nationally registered tangible cultural property built by GHQ during the postwar occupation, preserving a unique chapter of Japan's history.

Discover Sunshodo Kura, the integrated earthen storehouse of a 1936 Kamakura-bori shop in Hase, blending temple, castle, and townhouse architecture into one of Kamakura’s most distinctive landmarks.

Standing at a corner in Sasamechō, Kamakura, the Sunshōdō Main Building is a wooden two-story shop-residence with a three-story tower, completed in 1936 by the local carpenter Nishii Kiichi for the Kamakura-bori carver Satō Sōgaku. The building fuses a Buddhist pagoda-style tower crowned with a sōrin finial, temple-style brackets and rafters, castle-style white plaster walls and warrior windows, and the layout of a townhouse merchant's shop. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006, it is also Kamakura City Important Landscape Building No. 4 and a constituent property of the Japan Heritage 'Iza, Kamakura,' and continues to operate as a venerable Kamakura-bori shop today.

Seikan-tei is a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, built around 1906 as the villa of Marquis Kuroda Nagashige. Perched on the Sannomaru outer earthworks of Odawara Castle, this sukiya-style residence offers panoramic views of Sagami Bay and features exquisite painted fusuma doors and wickerwork ceilings. Since 2024, it operates as a Japanese restaurant where visitors can dine within a historic masterpiece.

Discover the Nishizaki Family Residence in Yokosuka's Funakoshi-chō, a 1938 Registered Tangible Cultural Property that elegantly combines American Stick Style western architecture with traditional Japanese tatami rooms, perched on a hilltop overlooking Nagaura Bay.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1937, this wooden chapel uniquely blends Gothic arches, Jacob's Ladder window mullions, and a tatami-floored choir loft — a one-of-a-kind fusion of Western and Japanese ecclesiastical architecture on the historic Tokaido road in Oiso, Kanagawa.

Discover the Yokosuka Uemachi Church and its affiliated Megumi Kindergarten, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kanagawa Prefecture. Designed by Yokota Suekichi, a disciple of William Merrell Vories, this charming 1930s wooden church features pointed-arch windows, a gabled bell tower, and a rich history of faith and community since 1903.

The largest and latest of the five buildings, added around 1922 by second owner Hara Sankei. Its eastern part is built out over the sloping ground on tall posts.

The oldest of five thatched buildings in Hakone Gora Park, this farmhouse-style tea room by tea master Masuda Don’o has a sunken hearth and old salvaged timber.

The garden’s only non-tea building, a small bathhouse raised over a large natural boulder with a raw log frame, once the rock bath of the former mountain villa.

A grass-hut style tea room west of Hakuun-do, attributed to Ogi Rodo, with a tiny two-mat-plus-daime room and the unusual omission of a crawl-in door.

The waiting pavilion at the head of the garden path, its southeast corner cut away and spanned by a curved log with small rafters fanning into a decorative eave.

Built in 1918 as Baron Fujita Heitaro's villa and registered in 2001, Hakone Kowakien Kihinkan faces east so its glazed main room catches the moon over Myojogatake.

A village headman's silk-rearing farmhouse of 1875, moved to Hakone in 1953 and registered in 2001, Hakone Kowakien Geihinkan keeps its raised sericulture roofline.