Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shizuoka

The Former MacKenzie Residence in Shizuoka City is a Spanish Colonial-style villa designed by architect William Merrell Vories. Completed in 1940 as the home of tea merchant Duncan MacKenzie and philanthropist Emily MacKenzie, it is registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Featuring a striking red tile roof, white stucco walls, and a watchtower with views of Mount Fuji, it reopened in March 2026 as HOMAM Former MacKenzie Mansion.

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 Kyozo (sutra repository) at Genmyoji Temple in Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a reinforced concrete scripture storehouse built in 1934. Featuring artificial stone walls with pilaster forms and cornice moldings that create a stone-like appearance, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2014 as an excellent example of prewar fireproof concrete temple architecture.

The Sagisaka Family Residence Inkyo-beya is a refined Taisho-era retirement quarters built in 1923 for a miso and soy sauce brewing family in the historic Mitsuke-juku post town, Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024, this two-story wooden building features elegant hira-shoin style rooms with shitaji-mado lattice windows, preserving the architectural heritage of the old Tokaido highway.

The Sagisaka Family Residence (Tsuruya Honten) Bunko-gura is a three-story earthen storehouse built in 1917 along the historic Tōkaidō highway in Mitsuke, Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Constructed for a prominent miso and soy sauce brewing family, it features an Izu stone foundation, white plaster walls, and fire-resistant kakego-nuri doors. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024.

Discover the Shimizu Port Telpher in Shizuoka—a 1928 steel crane that revolutionized lumber loading. Japan's only surviving telpher crane, now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Mechanical Engineering Heritage, stands beside Mount Fuji views at Shimizu Marine 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.

Located in the Mariko district of Shizuoka City, the Chojiya Store is a historic teahouse founded in 1596, famously depicted in Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e print series Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2022, the thatched-roof building was relocated by the 12th-generation owner to recreate the landscape portrayed in Hiroshige's art. For over four centuries, Chojiya has served its celebrated tororo-jiru (grated yam soup), preserving the culinary and architectural heritage of the Tokaido post-station culture.

Discover Chōseikan Kōbaisō, a nationally registered tangible cultural property annex built in 1933 at Shida Onsen in Fujieda, Shizuoka. Featuring pink plaster walls with plum blossom motifs and pre-war craftsmanship.

Discover Choseikan Main Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property inn at Shida Onsen in Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture. Built in 1939, this two-story wooden ryokan features exquisite craftsmanship with curved and natural-form timbers.

The Tsurutani Family Residence Main House in Kaketsuka, Iwata City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a two-story wooden merchant dwelling built around 1884. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this former sake brewery preserves the architectural character of early Meiji-era Kaketsuka — a historic port town at the mouth of the Tenryu River once known as the Little Edo of Enshu.