Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shizuoka

The Former Futamata Town Hall in Hamamatsu, a scratch-tiled timber building of 1936, now houses the Honda Soichiro Monozukuri Museum, open free of charge.

The Former Mackenzie House in Shizuoka, built in 1940 to designs by William Merrell Vories for a tea trader and his wife, is a Spanish-style villa open free.

Built between 1926 and 1945 to hold thread and cloth in Iwata City, this registered warehouse lost its attic floor in 1997 and became the acoustic hall Dolce Souko.

Completed in 1930 and unharmed by the North Izu earthquake that November, this Mishima weather station was registered in 2007 for its design. Interior now closed.

The Rokusho family ran a Shingon temple below Mount Fuji until Meiji edicts closed it. Their wide three-bay gate and 43 metres of fence were registered in 2017.

Built in 1931 by the architect of the concrete main hall, the priests' quarters at Otowasan Kiyomizudera in Shizuoka join timber craft to modern temple life.

The 1919 bell tower at Otowasan Kiyomizudera in Shizuoka has bronze corner braces cast with lotus motifs. On New Year's Eve the first hundred people ring its bell.

The 1931 main hall of Otowasan Kiyomizudera in Shizuoka is reinforced concrete: seven bays on round columns, bracket sets over the centre, and a rare gabled roof.

Not a dam but a 70-metre dry-stone channel of around 1912, Kiwadagawa Channel Works No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, guides the stream into Dam No. 8 at the valley head.

The lowest dry-stone check dam in a group built around 1912 after an 1910 storm, Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 1 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is nicknamed the helmet dam.

Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 5 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, is a small dry-stone dam of around 1912 that fixes the streambed as a ground sill within a state-designated sabo project.

Kiwadagawa Sabo Dam No. 3 in Fujieda, Shizuoka, blends old dry stonework with a modern trapezoidal overflow. Built around 1912, it marks a turning point in sabo work.

The sutra repository of Genmyoji in Iwata, Shizuoka, a small concrete store of 1934 finished to look like stone, is a fine prewar example built to resist fire.

The gateposts and wall of Genmyoji in Iwata, Shizuoka, built in the early Showa period of hollow tamped-earth blocks, are a rare record of local plastering.

The retirement house of the Sagisaka family, miso and soy sauce makers in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, is a refined two-storey house of 1923.

The storehouse of the Sagisaka family in the old Mitsuke post town of Iwata, Shizuoka, a three-storey plastered store of 1917, stands on a base of Izu stone.

The Shimizu Port telpher in Shizuoka, built in 1928 to load timber onto trains, is a 110-metre U-shaped steel track for an electric hoist, now in a park.

The Takeyama Family Residence Main House in Tenno-cho, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a two-story wooden dwelling built in 1937 and designed by Takeyama Kenzaburō. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it is admired for its shikoro-buki-style roof, clapboard exterior, and refined interior featuring carefully selected premium timbers.

The Chojiya Store in Maruko, Shizuoka, is a 1971 thatched teahouse on the old Tokaido, built with reused farmhouse timbers and inspired by Hiroshige's print.

The Choseikan Kobaiso in Fujieda is a 1933 pondside reception pavilion with pale pink plaster walls and plum-blossom motifs, true to its name of fragrant plum.