Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Shizuoka

Built in 1937 for a mill owner in Iwata's velveteen-weaving Fukude district, this timber house was registered in 2013 with a warehouse now serving as a concert hall.

The Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Ichinomiya River Bridge, located in Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a historic railway bridge built in 1935 as part of the former JNR Futamata Line. Spanning 40 meters with a combination of steel plate girders and reinforced concrete approach spans, it features steelwork by Yokogawa Bridge Works using Yawata Steel. As one of 36 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties along the Tenhama Line, this prewar bridge contributes to the region's historic landscape.

The Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Operation District Rest House at Tenryu Futamata Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a single-story wooden building constructed in 1940 alongside the opening of the JNR Futamata Line. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the heritage of an early Showa-era railway engine depot together with the turntable and fan-shaped engine shed.

The Tokaido Nanushi no Yakata (Koike Family Residence) in Yui, Shimizu Ward, Shizuoka City is the former home of the Koike family, who served as nanushi (village headmen) of Teraō village throughout the Edo period. Built in the Meiji era as a single-story wooden farmhouse, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 1998. Features such as namako-tile walls, a large door with a wicket gate, a den-no-ji four-room layout, and a massive central pillar preserve the dignity of a headman's residence and the spirit of the old Tokaido.

A small two-storey storehouse of just 17 square metres tucked into the Tōzansō villa complex in Atami, Shizuoka. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2016 as part of a prewar villa ensemble, this modest auxiliary building once safeguarded the art collection assembled by Okada Mokichi—the very collection that would later form the foundational holdings of the celebrated MOA Museum of Art.

The Tozanso Main Gate in Atami dates from 1933. It is 3.6 meters wide and gabled, with kiln-varied tiles laid in a straight line and polished log posts.

Yamashita Kamesaburo built the Tozanso Tea House in Atami in 1940. Its main room has two hearths, a rough exposed beam frame and a ceiling packed with round bamboo.

Built around 1935 for banker Ishii Kengo, the Tozanso Detached Wing in Atami holds one fifteen-mat room under a boat-bottom ceiling ringed by woven panels.

Yamashita Kamesaburo built the Tozanso Annex in Atami in 1940 to receive guests. Staggered tatami rooms face Sagami Bay, with a low alcove and a tiled veranda.

Built in 1933 for banker Ishii Kengo, the Tozanso Main Building in Atami is a two-story villa with slender sukiya timberwork and a glass wall facing Sagami Bay.

At 17 square meters, the Tozanso Storage Shed in Atami is the smallest of the villa's seven registered buildings, with a half-sunken store and a matted room above.

Registered in August 2024, five months after the house behind it, this concrete gate and 34-metre glazed-tile wall are the part of the property the street sees.

Completed in 1915 to enshrine an Amida once owned by Emperor Kokaku, this earthen-walled hall in Shizuoka carries plaster-relief guardians by Morita Kakudo.

Once the Meiji Emperor’s chamber at the Iida honjin of Arai-juku, this shoin moved to Hōkō-ji in 1885, with a 24-mat antechamber and a raised dais room. Registered 2019.

On the streamside approach, this three-bay two-story gate shows degumi brackets below and two-stepped brackets above, marking a head temple’s rank. Registered 2019.

Joined to the Main Hall, this station for the shika stands beside the Main Hall and Great Kuri, anchoring the central precinct. Built c.1915, registered 2019.

This worship hall faces the small Shichison Bosatsu-dō within its outer shelter. The shrine behind is a separate Important Cultural Property. Registered 2019.

Office of the head of the Hōkō-ji branch of Rinzai Zen, joined to the Great Kuri by a covered passage. With the Shika-ryō it forms the working quarters. Registered 2019.

Joined to the Founder’s Hall, this small copper-roofed votive hall honours the founder Mumon Gensen, with packed bracketing and carved beams. Registered 2019.

A one-bay-square, skirt-base bell tower east of the Main Hall plaza, set on a cobblestone platform, its open upper level held by two-stepped brackets. Registered in 2019.