Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Mie

The detached wing of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, dates from early Taisho. Its alcove, shelving and writing bay show how a samurai house changed after 1868.

The front storehouse of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, measures three metres square. Small as it is, it anchors the street frontage of a late Edo warrior plot.

The gate and earthen wall of the Nakamori Residence in Iga, Mie, form its street face. A one-bay bracket-arm gate, 1.8 m wide, marks a sub-vassal's modest rank.

Located before the gate of Izawa-no-Miya, a branch shrine of Ise Grand Shrine in Shima City, Mie Prefecture, the Nakaroku Store is a two-story wooden building constructed in 1929 and registered as a national tangible cultural property in 2011 — the first such designation in Shima City. With its elegant L-shaped irimoya roof, it now operates as a celebrated eel restaurant.

In Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, an earthen shop storehouse joins a timber kuramae whose upper floor holds a sukiya tea room, giving a watchtower profile. Registered 2013.

A wooden single-storey house in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, grown in three Meiji phases. Its west gable is plain, its east end hipped-and-gabled. Registered in 2013.

The smallest of four registered buildings in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie, at 8.5 square metres. A cobble base, board and plaster band shape its corner view. Listed 2013.

A late Meiji timber reception room with an attached earthen storehouse in Karasu, Tsu City, Mie. It ends a five-building frontage of plaster and board. Listed 2013.

Built about 1937 for one of Mie's top rice dealers, this four-post gate in Yokkaichi has egg-yellow Otsu plaster and a transom of buried wood. Registered 2019.

Discover Fukuoka Shōyu-ten, a soy sauce brewery in Iga City, Mie Prefecture, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Explore its century-old cedar vats, rare Kirin-style press, and traditional artisan brewing since 1895.

Discover the Furusato Pedestrian Tunnel (Former Unno Tunnel), a registered tangible cultural property in Kihoku, Mie Prefecture. Built in 1914 as part of the Kumano Kaido road modernization, this 208-meter brick tunnel features elegant portal design and rare gas lamp niches.

Discover the Matsusaka City Cultural Property Center, a nationally registered tangible cultural property housed in a stunning 1923 red brick warehouse. Explore Taisho-era industrial heritage, National Treasure haniwa clay figures, and the rich history of Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture.

Discover the Mie Local History Museum in Yokkaichi, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1916 as a village office archive. This black-plastered earthen storehouse connects visitors to the origins of Mie Prefecture's name.

Discover Mie University's Sansui Kaikan, a 1936 wooden Western-style alumni hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Learn about its history as the sole surviving building from the Mie Higher Agricultural and Forestry School, its distinctive architectural features, and how to visit this hidden gem on the Tsu City campus.

Built in 1910 by a local forestry magnate in Kihoku Town, Mie Prefecture, the Koueikan is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcasing refined Meiji-era Western-style architecture. Its symmetrical facade, weatherboard siding, sash windows, and ornamental carvings illustrate how Western building styles reached rural Japan. Located near the UNESCO World Heritage Kumano Kodo trail and the crystal-clear Choshi River.

Discover Myokaji Temple Main Hall, an 1857 Edo-period Jodo Shinshu Takada-ha temple registered as a national tangible cultural property in Hisai, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. Explore its distinctive shikoro-buki roof, ornate worship canopy, and samurai-era heritage.

Barely 19 square meters, Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji storehouse is a copper-clad dozo whose board skirting and sea-cucumber plaster join it to the street wall.

Ryokan Kunrakuso's late-Meiji main building, in old Kuwamachi, Iga-Ueno, holds eleven tatami guest rooms with tokonoma, carved transoms and a gazebo-style hall ceiling.

Ryokan Kunrakuso's gate and wall form the street face of a late-Meiji Iga-Ueno inn: a 12-meter wall, 3.3 meters high, a tiled gate, and a black-plastered upper line.

Built in 1929 at Yunoyama Onsen, this inn annexe has a copper roof against frost, ogee windows sized from Ishiyamadera and rare Colburn glass. Registered in 2008.