Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kochi

Discover Taisho Bridge, a registered tangible cultural property in Shimanto Town, Kochi. This 138-meter steel Warren truss bridge from 1928 spans the Yusuhara River with elegant geometric granite pillars.

Takaiwa Bridge in Ino Town, Kochi Prefecture, is a reinforced concrete girder bridge built in 1928 and registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Spanning the Kamiyakawa River in the Niyodo River system, it features distinctive pierced piers and a unified design that tells the story of modernization in Japan's mountainous heartland.

A late Meiji storehouse on Sakawa's sake-brewery street in Kochi, registered in 2018. Its plastered walls carry three tiers of Tosa water-shedding tiles.

Built about 1892 in Tosa City, Kochi, this single-storey house became a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019 and still works as a clinic.

This 1874 merchant house in Tano, Kochi, keeps the layered shopfront of a Tosa market town: a lattice screen, lean-to eaves and a lime-plastered half-storey.

Moved from Nahari to Tano in 1931, this late Edo wing shows two gables on its south face and holds seven rooms, including a formal alcove and writing bay.

Discover Chōhōji Main Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tano, Kochi Prefecture. Built in 1822, this Jōdo Shinshū temple showcases classic late Edo-period architecture in the Aki region of Shikoku.

Discover the gate of Chōhōji Temple, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Tano, Kochi. This Jodo Shinshu temple, built in the Edo period, features traditional architecture and a famous reclining dragon plum tree in Shikoku's smallest town.

Discover Tsutoya Store and Main Residence, a beautifully preserved 1933 machiya townhouse in Yasuda Town, Kochi Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcases early Showa-era commercial architecture with distinctive regional tile work and traditional craftsmanship.

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this two-storey earthen storehouse shows the Tosa manner: a boarded base, lime plaster, and two tiers of drip tiles. Registered 2005.

In Aki's Doi Kakuchu quarter, Kochi, this late-Meiji house was both doctor's home and clinic, its waiting and consulting rooms beside the family rooms. Registered 2005.

At the southwest corner of this Aki residence, Kochi, a nagayamon joins gate and building, with a passage at one end and four rooms alongside. Registered 2005.

Behind the main house of this Aki residence, Kochi, a small wing stands by the storehouse: an earthen floor, a raised floor, and eaves sheltering a well. Registered 2005.

Along the west edge of this Aki residence, Kochi, the wall joins a Tosa-plaster section and a neribei of river cobbles with old tiles at each end. Registered 2005.

A 39-square-metre Taisho storehouse in Kochi answering typhoon country with drip tiles, a ventilated set roof, and two-tone plaster. Registered in 2003 for design.

Built in 1890 and relocated around 1917, this 201-square-metre Kochi house wears a hipped tile roof stepped down at the eaves. Registered in 2003, now a guesthouse.

An 18-metre reinforced concrete garden wall of the early Showa era, pierced with curved diamonds and checkerboard voids. Registered in 2003 as not easy to reproduce.

Just 1.5 metres wide, this early Showa timber gate divides entrance from garden at Hyakunen-ya in Kochi. Registered in 2003 for the order it brings to the approach.

Built in 1924, the west wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is the shop half of a merchant house: earth floor toward the street, cooking range behind it.

The east wing of the Fukoe Residence in Tano, Kochi, is an early Meiji merchant house moved in 1924. Three tile bands shed rain from its plastered east gable.

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