Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokushima

Tucked away in Tokushima City's historic Kokufu district, the Zoshu-in Tea Room is a refined late-Edo sukiya building registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2021. Its five rooms—two tea rooms, a mizuya, a waiting room, and a formal upper room—showcase a remarkable variety of prized timbers and carefully varied designs. Set within a ninth-century temple and steps from four Shikoku Pilgrimage sites, it offers a rare, crowd-free glimpse into provincial Edo architectural refinement.

Discover Zoushuin Maikomi-izumi in Tokushima, a nationally registered Edo-period spiral well of a type rarely seen in western Japan. Explore its history, stone craftsmanship, and the rich heritage landscape of Kokufu-cho.

The Takahara Building in Tokushima City is a reinforced concrete Western-style building completed in 1932. Designed by Suzuki Teiji, the renowned architect known as 'the architect who built Nagoya,' it features scratch-tile walls and Romanesque ornamentation. The building miraculously survived the devastating 1945 Tokushima Air Raid thanks to its German-made fireproof windows and was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1997.

Discover Takeyashiki-dō, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima. This Taishō-period pilgrimage hall serves as the 35th station of the Hata-Shikoku 88 Sacred Sites route, featuring traditional hōgyō-zukuri architecture amid the mountains of western Tokushima.

The Tahoto (multi-treasure pagoda) at Tatsue-ji, the 19th temple of the Shikoku 88 Temple Pilgrimage in Komatsushima City, Tokushima Prefecture. Built in 1923 during the Taishō era, this elegant wooden two-story pagoda faithfully inherits the traditional tahoto form while incorporating exquisite carvings and a raised coffered ceiling characteristic of modern craftsmanship. It was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2024.

Chiiori, meaning 'House of the Flute,' is an approximately 300-year-old thatched-roof farmhouse nestled in the remote Iya Valley of Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this Edo-period minka was purchased and restored by American Japanologist Alex Kerr in 1973. Today it operates as an exclusive whole-house rental, offering guests an immersive experience in Japan's vanishing rural heritage.

The Main Hall of Tsubaki Hachiman Shrine in Anan City, Tokushima Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1856. Despite its compact 4.7 m² footprint, this late Edo-period shrine showcases remarkably sophisticated craftsmanship including elaborate bracket complexes with diagonal tail rafters, double rainbow-beam gable ornamentation, and dense sculptural decoration. Located in a tranquil coastal village near Gamoda Cape, the easternmost point of Shikoku.

Built in 1862 and only nineteen square metres, Tsurui Yakushido is a three-bay hall above the Iya River, registered in 2019 for its place in the landscape.

Rebuilt in 1833, Tofukuji Main Hall in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, puts a Shingon worship hall and the priests' quarters under one tiled hipped roof, eight rooms deep.

A rare purpose-built puppet playhouse on a Tokushima high-school campus, built in 1965 with a two-tier stage and box seats, home to a living Awa puppet-theater tradition.

Completed in 1926, this brick-and-granite well-house of barely 21 square metres held the intake of Tokushima's first modern water supply, matching the plant's design.

Completed in 1926, this is the only round building of the Sako plant's three registered structures, a cylindrical brick-and-granite well-house about 5.1 metres high.

Completed in 1926 for Tokushima's first modern water supply, this English-bond red-brick pump station became the prefecture's first registered cultural property.

An 1897 hall in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima, marking station 28 of the Habashikoku pilgrimage. Open on all four sides, it was registered in 2017 with nine others.

A middle Meiji timber workshop at the rear of a tobacco merchant's lot in Ikeda, Tokushima. Its earth and plank floors record how the shredding work was zoned.

An 1891 merchant house in Ikeda, Tokushima, built on the shredded tobacco trade: a 15.9-metre frontage, tiled fire-break walls at each end, a Western parlour.

A Taisho era thatched farmhouse at Kubo in Miyoshi City, standing on an Iya valley slope and registered in 2019 as part of the mountain village landscape.

Built around 1926, this 9.4-metre brick chimney in Ikeda, Tokushima vents the steaming room of a working sake brewery. Laid in English bond, visible from the street.

The Nakawa Shoten Shikomi-gura in Ikeda, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture, is a Meiji-era fermentation storehouse registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Part of a brewery founded in 1802, this wooden structure features a distinctive log-frame roof creating a vast interior space. Home to the award-winning sake brand Imakomachi, the site offers brewery tours and serves as a gateway to Shikoku's scenic Iya Valley and Oboke Gorge.

Facing Sugio-dori in Ikeda, Tokushima, this late Taisho timber building pairs a Western office with a Japanese residence, its street front clad in scratch tile.

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

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