Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Mie

A two-storey reinforced concrete post office of 1932 on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie. Built as the Kakino Post Office, it was registered in 2011.

A single-storey timber post office of 1931 in Tsu, Mie. Its L-shaped plan sets the working space east and the night duty rooms west. Registered in 2019.

A Meiji-era two-storey villa wing in Yokkaichi, Mie, built for spinning magnate Ito Denshichi X. Its east-facing carriage porch survives; registered in 2010.

A detached tatami parlour of around 1955 at the Former Ito Denshichi Villa in Yokkaichi, Mie. Ten and six mat rooms, alcove joinery; registered in 2010.

Built in 1934 above Ago Bay for a retired insurance manager, this Shima City house sets formal Japanese reception rooms beside a lacquered coffered-ceiling study.

Discover the Former Taki County Office Hexagonal Hall in Taki Town, Mie Prefecture — a distinctive Taishō-period wooden building with an unusual hexagonal plan, coffered ceiling, and lion-topped ridge tiles inscribed "Kinenkan." Registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2015.

Discover the Former Toyobo Spinning Co. Tomida Factory Raw Cotton Warehouse in Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture. This registered tangible cultural property, built in 1917, features five connected brick warehouses now repurposed within a modern shopping mall, preserving Japan's textile industry legacy.

Discover the Former Funaki Bridge, a registered tangible cultural property spanning the pristine Miyagawa River gorge in Mie Prefecture. Built in 1905 with distinctive brick piers and later retrofitted with steel Warren trusses, this historic bridge showcases Japan's Meiji-era engineering heritage.

Selling the same pilgrim medicine since 1676, this early Meiji merchant house on Ise's Geku approach keeps its curved gable, ribbed boarding and latticed upper bay.

Attached to the main hall of a Suzuka temple, this small early Meiji shoin was named by the haiku poet Yamaguchi Seishi, who held verse gatherings in its four rooms.

An 1868 townhouse in Suzuka, Mie, where the poet Sasaki Nobutsuna was born in 1872. Registered in 2011, it keeps the through-passage plan of an Ishiyakushi machiya.

An 1875 plastered storehouse of 14 square metres behind Sasaki Nobutsuna's birthplace in Suzuka, Mie, registered in 2011 for its part in the old post-town scene.

This early Meiji retaining wall in Matsusaka, Mie, runs 48 metres in undressed river cobbles, with a recess collecting spring water. Registered in 2013.

Just 7.2 square metres, this early Showa tool store in Matsusaka, Mie, was registered in 2013 for the way it closes a former medicine dealer's walled compound.

An early Meiji house on the Wakayama Kaido in Matsusaka, Mie, this 172-square-metre home of a medicine dealer was listed as a Cultural Property in 2013.

Set on the cobble wall along the east edge of a Matsusaka compound in Mie, this Meiji plastered wall runs 16 metres, its ridge stepping down midway. Listed 2013.

Kasetsuen, the 1922 detached reception wing of the Shimozu Residence in Isshinden, Tsu, has a raised alcove platform and a four-mat tea room, En'an. Listed 2014.

The outer waiting arbour of the Shimozu Residence in Tsu, Mie, covers only 8 square metres, pairs a wall bench with a free one, and is framed in logs. Listed 2014.

The Shimozu gatehouse in Isshinden, Tsu, faces the street before Senjuji. Its lattices and slatted windows mark a late-Edo temple retainer's home. Listed 2014.

Registered in 2011, Jakushoji Kannon Hall in Ise buries its timber frame under thick storehouse plaster, and shelters a Kannon image tied to Senhime's memory.