Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Nara

The largest of seven storehouses at this Kashihara estate in Nara, the late Taisho rice store covers 115 square metres and leaves its frame visible inside.

Built around 1938 at the northwest corner of this Kashihara estate in Nara, the storehouse takes its name from inui, the old compass word for northwest.

This small 1887 storehouse at Kashihara in Nara kept the estate's tableware behind namako tiled walls, a raised tiled roof and a copper-hooded doorway.

Completed in 1933 and designed by master carpenter Nakagawa Kichijirō, the Former Ikoma Town Hall is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring traditional Japanese architectural elements including irimoya-hafu gables and refined woodwork. Now the Ikoma Furusato Museum, this beautifully restored building showcases the rich heritage of Ikoma City.

A bracket gate 2.0 metres wide on a stone plinth, lattice doors outside and folding doors within, plus 15 metres of plastered fence. Registered in 2025.

Registered in March 2025, this 174-square-metre Nara townhouse of 1940 sits back behind its own gate and keeps its half-storey, doma and cooking hearth.

Only 19 square metres, this Nara storehouse of about 1940 pairs a heavy hongawara gable with namako-kabe tilework on its courtyard face. Registered 2025.

Discover the Former Sixty-Eight Bank Yagi Branch in Kashihara, Nara — a 1928 Renaissance-inspired reinforced concrete landmark, now a French restaurant. Explore this Registered Tangible Cultural Property and its fascinating history.

Saho Kaikan, located on the campus of Nara Women's University, is an alumni hall built in 1928 to commemorate the wedding of Crown Prince Hirohito (later Emperor Shōwa). Designed by architect Iwasaki Heitarō, this two-story wooden building features a stately irimoya roof, a grand hall with a coffered ceiling, and refined tatami rooms with openwork transoms. It was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005.

Discover the Jokyoji Temple Bulletin Board Shelter (Keijibansya), a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Nara. This early Showa-era structure stands on Japan's oldest shopping street and is connected to Ernest Fenollosa's historic lecture on preserving Japanese art.

Discover the Sanmon Gate of Jōkyō-ji Temple in Nara, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the late Edo period. This elegant yakuimon gate features exquisite carvings and stands on the historic Sanjō-dōri, where Ernest Fenollosa delivered his landmark lecture on preserving Japan's cultural heritage.

Tamaya Hanare Zashiki is a detached guest room of a former Edo-period inn standing before Taima-dera in Katsuragi, Nara. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it offers visitors a chance to dine in a quiet, 170-year-old pilgrim's retreat surrounded by a courtyard garden.

This late Edo townhouse in Naramachi, Nara, keeps its projecting eaves, udatsu fire walls and a large lattice window. Registered in 2012, it still sells Yamato tea.

A small storehouse of about 1933 sits at the rear of a Naramachi plot, hard against the Gangoji boundary. Its trapezoid plan follows the awkward edges of the site.

Built in 1933 for a Nara timber wholesaler as house and office, this registered machiya faces the lane east of Gangoji. Fine figured wood lines its upstairs room.

At Chuguji in Ikaruga, Nara, this late Edo shoin hall has six rooms for receiving noble guests, one raised under a coffered ceiling. Registered 2006. Rarely open.

Completed in 1926, the Nanto Bank Head Office is a Greek Revival masterpiece designed by Nagano Uheiji, a disciple of Tatsuno Kingo. Featuring distinctive sheep carvings on its Ionic columns, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property — Nara Prefecture's first — stands as a testament to Taisho-era modernization in the ancient capital.

The Hamoto Family Residence Main House, a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, is an early Meiji-period merchant townhouse featuring refined degoshi lattice windows, mushiko-mado, and exquisite interior joinery crafted by the grandfather of the renowned sashimono master Kawasaki Yūgen.

Dated to 1855 by the wand set in its roof frame, the main house of Hirai Clinic in Gojo, Nara was registered in 2002. A smoke vent rides its long gabled ridge.

The 1855 storehouse behind Hirai Clinic in Gojo, Nara, carries a stepped ridge line: rice filled the eastern half of the building and raw cotton the western half.

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

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