Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kanagawa

Discover Sojiji Temple in Yokohama, home to 18 magnificent Registered Tangible Cultural Properties from the Taisho and early Showa periods. Explore authentic Zen architecture, the 152-meter Hyakken Corridor, and traditional training halls at one of Japan's two head temples of Soto Zen Buddhism, just 7 minutes from Tsurumi Station.

Explore the Hara Family Residence, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Hiratsuka City. This exceptional compound of four historic buildings—main house, tea room, storehouse, and Edo-period gatehouse—preserves the traditional lifestyle of prosperous Meiji-era farming families in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Discover the Former Yokohama Technical College Main Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcasing the elegant fusion of Renaissance and Modernist architecture from 1938. Located in Gumyoji, this historic school building represents Japan's prewar educational heritage.

The Former Main Building of the Convent of the Daughters of Jesus in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is an elegant Western-style villa built in 1914 as a seaside retreat for Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito. Designed by imperial architect Kigo Kozaburo, the building features distinctive white German-style weatherboard cladding and a commanding tower. As the sole surviving imperial family villa in Hayama and the only pre-Great Kanto Earthquake imperial residence in the Shonan region, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2017.

A 27-square-metre timber storehouse behind a Hadano shop, its mortar walls scored to read as coursed stone. Registered in 2017 as a Tangible Cultural Property.

Frontage of 1.2 metres, depth of 1.8 metres, and a national registration number. This mortar-sealed box behind a Hadano shop is among Japan's smallest listings.

Twin in size to the storehouse beside it, this Hadano warehouse carries a king post truss overhead, a Western technique the national record singles out.

The Iwamotoro Roman Bath is a Western-style bathhouse built around 1930 within the historic Iwamotoro Honkan ryokan on Enoshima Island, Kanagawa Prefecture. Featuring a horseshoe-shaped Roman thermae-style tub, a glass dome ceiling, terracotta ornaments by ceramicist Komori Shinobu, and irreplaceable Italian peacock stained glass by Beppu Shichirō, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2001.

The Main Hall of Oyamadera, perched on the slopes of Mount Oyama in Isehara, Kanagawa, is a majestic esoteric Buddhist hall rebuilt in 1885 through nationwide donations. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, it features impressive dragon carvings, a traditional five-bay layout, and over 1,200 years of pilgrimage history.

The Former Kaji Residence in Hayama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property designed in 1928 by Arata Endo, a devoted disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. This Prairie Style masterpiece, known as the 'Little Imperial Hotel' for its lavish use of Oya stone, now operates as an exclusive rental accommodation.

Built in 1936 beside the Daibutsuzaka Tunnel in Kamakura's Hase district, this scratch-tile-clad reinforced concrete pump station is the earliest surviving structure from Kanagawa Prefecture's public waterworks. Now a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it has been beautifully repurposed as MOKICHI KAMAKURA restaurant by Shonan's historic Kumazawa Brewery.

Discover the Former Kamakura Library in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture — a charming 1936 wooden library building featuring a unique blend of Western modern and Japanese architectural design, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024.

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.

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.