Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Mie

Dated to 1839 by its ridge tag, Jakushoji Konpira Hall in Ise packs full temple carpentry into seventeen square metres. A dragon covers its mirror ceiling.

Jakushoji Gate in Ise was raised around 1797 by Gessen, the painter-monk who gave his fees to the poor. Its zelkova frame carries almost no carving at all.

Built around 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie, this 16-square-metre concrete hall sets a vaulted roof above a Japanese cusped gable carried on fluted columns.

A one-bay concrete bell tower of about 1935 at Juryoji temple in Kuwana, Mie. Arches span its posts below a pyramidal roof, and washed aggregate patterns its faces.

The North Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 1954 timber wing joined to its twin by three corridors across a courtyard. Registered 2009.

Registered in 2009, the 1954 South Building of Shirakawa Elementary School in Kameyama, Mie, is a 58-metre timber wing whose dormer gable fronts a working school.

Explore Japan's first private museum, the Jingu Chokokan, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ise. Admire Renaissance-style Meiji architecture by Katayama Tokuma, and discover sacred treasures from Ise Grand Shrine's 1,300-year-old Shikinen Sengu ceremony.

Jingu Nogyokan at Ise opened in 1891 as Japan's first industrial museum. Its 1905 hall, echoing the Byodoin Phoenix Hall, is a rare timber work by Katayama Tokuma.

Discover Daiosaki Lighthouse, a 1927 registered tangible cultural property on the Shima Peninsula in Mie Prefecture. Climb one of Japan's 16 open lighthouses, enjoy 360° Pacific Ocean panoramas, explore the Lighthouse Museum, and stroll through the charming "Painter's Town" of Daio.

Discover the Daiozaki Lighthouse Gate Pillars and Wall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Shima City, Mie Prefecture. Built in 1927, this reinforced concrete structure stretches 105 meters along the dramatic Kumano-nada coastline and complements one of Japan's most iconic lighthouses.

Discover Chitose Bunko, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. Built in 1930 by renowned ceramist and industrialist Kawakita Handeishi, this four-story reinforced concrete archive was designed by architect Maeda Kenjiro and preserves approximately 30,000 artworks and books from the prestigious Kawakita family collection.

A two-story Meiji-period building at Nagatani-en, once a rice granary. Its plaster walls reveal the timber frame as ornament, and its height brings variation to the lane.

A Meiji-period building at Nagatani-en facing Exhibition Room 1, with an earthen-floor interior. Said to have begun as a stable, it serves as a gallery on the grounds.

At the Nagatani-en works in Iga, a multi-chamber climbing kiln runs 34 meters up a south-facing slope. Built in the late Edo period, it fired Iga ware into the 1970s.

A Meiji-period guest wing at Nagatani-en, joined to the main house by a roofed corridor and doubling as the passage to the villa. Two rooms open to a garden veranda.

At the west edge of the Nagatani-en grounds in Iga stands a two-story Taisho retreat, once a retirement home. Japanese rooms sit beside a Western wing with a bay window.

The gates and walls framing the Nagatani-en estate in Iga: a four-legged front gate, a bracket-arm west gate, a courtyard gate, and a 106-meter earthen wall.

The well shelter and board fence of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, shelter a stone-curbed well and divide the inner court from the garden. Late Edo; closed.

The storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, rises two storeys against a wall on the line of Ueno Castle's lost outer moat. Late Edo; registered in 2014.

The main house of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, is a late Edo home built for sub-vassals of the Todo Shinshichiro house. Registered 2014; closed to visitors.