Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kochi

A late Meiji house of 206 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Farmhouse rooms to the west, formal zashiki to the east, registered in 2024 as a model of design.

A two storey plastered storehouse of 52 square metres in Konan City, Kochi. Projecting tile courses throw off the rain and the roof uses left handed pantiles.

A late Meiji boundary running 20 metres in Konan City, Kochi. Built on large undressed stones and roofed with tile, it ties three gates into a single frontage.

A small late Meiji gate 1.8 metres wide inside a compound in Konan City, Kochi. Copper roofed, it closes the dog-legged approach and opens on the eastern garden.

A plain late Meiji gate 2.0 metres wide in Konan City, Kochi. Boarded on one side, latticed slider on the other, it led the household to its own entrance.

Located in Akebono-cho, Kochi City, the Former Imperial Japanese Army 44th Infantry Regiment Auditorium is a single-storey wooden hall built around 1898-1900 and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2023. Together with a surviving ammunition depot, it preserves the physical memory of the regiment that sent generations of Kochi men to war for nearly half a century, with king-post trusses and lap-siding walls largely intact.

Located in the Asakura district of Kochi City, the Former Imperial Japanese Army Infantry 44th Regiment Ammunition Depot is a single-story brick building from the Meiji era, registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in February 2023. With its 50-centimeter-thick brick walls, iron-clad segmental-arch double doors, raised wooden floor for humidity control, and surviving earthen embankment, it stands as one of Japan's rarest surviving examples of late-19th-century military storage architecture. Together with the regiment's Lecture Hall, nearby Asakura Shrine, Asakura Castle ruins, and Kochi University campus, it forms a compelling half-day heritage walk for travelers interested in modern Japanese history.

A 1935 reinforced concrete bridge over the Niyodo River in Kochi, railless and built to be overtopped by floods, its 13-metre arch springing from bedrock.

Within the Kubo grounds in Yasuda, this Taisho river-stone wall staggers its vertical joints, keeps the horizontal courses level, and sets larger stones at its ends.

In the old Tosa town of Yasuda, this small Taisho-era storehouse of the Kubo merchant house wears lime-plaster walls and regional drip tiles above an iron-clad base.

The oldest of the Kubo property's registered parts, this late-Edo ishiguro wall in Yasuda uses Tosa river stones and a tiled cap, shaping the character of its lane.

Facing a back lane in Yasuda, this Taisho detached room of the Kubo house holds a six-mat guest chamber with an alcove, its iron-clad walls opening upstairs only.

On the south side of the Kubo shop-house in Yasuda, this modest 1.9-metre Taisho service gate, with a single mairado door, links the household to its garden and field.

A Taisho-era draper's shop and dwelling on a corner in Yasuda, Kochi, registered in 2007. Its vertically boarded gable end anchors the old coastal street.

At the southeast corner of a Tano plot in Kochi, a registered Taisho building puts a gate and a privy under one gabled roof, an arrangement rare in the district.

West of the main house in Tano, Kochi, this small two-storey storehouse dates from late Edo and is said to have been moved from the Oka Goten, a Tosa lord's lodging.

An early Taisho main house in Tano, Kochi, with a four-room grid plan, a formal shikidai step in the goshi tradition, and two courses of Tosa rain-shedding tiles.

The Main Hall of Kuwaze Shrine, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the early Meiji era, stands on a steep mountainside beside Tsubute Falls in Ino Town, Kochi Prefecture. Despite its compact 6.2 m² footprint, the hall features vivid polychrome carvings of dragons, baku, and phoenixes, showcasing remarkable craftsmanship cherished by the local community for generations.

Discover Keikisō, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kami City, Kochi. This charming thatched-roof hermitage was built in 1934 for the renowned poet Yoshii Isamu, lyricist of "Gondola no Uta," during his years of seclusion in the mountain hamlet of Inono.

Koyagauchi Bridge is a reinforced concrete submersible bridge built in 1953 over the Yusuhara River in Shimanto Town, Kochi Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008, the bridge is notable for its ingenious use of natural bedrock as foundations and its hydrodynamic design features that minimize flood damage. It stands as a testament to the harmonious coexistence between the people of the Shimanto River basin and the powerful forces of nature.

Kochi’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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