Historic Sites, Places of Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monuments of Mie

The surviving buildings of a domain school founded in Iga in 1821 as a branch of the Tsu academy Yuzokan. Designated a Historic Site in 1930 and open to visitors.

A square burial mound of the early fifth century in Tsu, Mie, Akeai Kofun has platforms projecting from two opposite sides, a form seen at very few Japanese sites.

After the 1959 typhoon felled trees on Mt. Asama, Heian-era sutra cylinders and engraved mirrors came to light. Some forty mounds mark this burial site above Ise.

The Nara-period seat of Ise Province in Suzuka, Mie, a Historic Site since 2002, whose office platforms survive almost at their original height.

At Oike Shotaku marsh in Yokkaichi, cold-climate sweet gale meets warm-climate flora in one lowland wetland with carnivorous plants. A Natural Monument since 1952.

Off the Kihoku coast of Mie Prefecture, the uninhabited island of Ōshima is cloaked in warm-temperate evergreen forest, the northern limit of the bird's-nest fern.

The Onigajo fern colony, in the mountains of Minami-Ise, grows on shaded rock walls above a clear stream. Listed since 1928, it shelters ferns rare this far north.

Hidden deep in the mountains of Mie Prefecture, the Kitabatake Clan Residence Garden is a stroll-style pond garden created around 1530 by Hosokawa Takakuni, deputy of the Muromachi shogun. Designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site, it is celebrated as one of the Three Great Warrior Gardens of Japan alongside the Ichijodani Asakura Garden in Fukui and the former Shurin-ji Garden in Shiga. Features include the distinctive rice-character-shaped pond and the Confucius Stone of the dry landscape arrangement.

Designated a National Natural Monument in 1936, this rare wild iris colony in Meiwa Town, Mie Prefecture, blooms with around 3,000 deep-violet flowers each late May to mid-June. Once admired by Ise pilgrims and tied to the ancient land of the Saio imperial princesses, the site preserves the wild ancestor of the Japanese iris through dedicated community-led conservation.

About 1.1 km of the middle Nakamura River in Matsusaka, where the rare nekogigi catfish lives at high density among rocks, was made a Natural Monument in 2011.

This Yokkaichi site protects the inunashi, the most primitive wild pear in Japan, found by local teachers in 1902 and named by Makino Tomitaro. Designated 1922.

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

The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.

Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.