Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

Built in 1928 in a Setagaya garden, this Ōya stone basin runs 1.2 by 4.1 metres, its corner blocks pushing the edging outward into a cross in plan. Registered 2007.

This 1928 stone gate in Setagaya opens 1.8 metres wide, its posts stacked seven courses of Ōya stone under a capstone, with steps, paving and a stone flower bed.

Built in 1934 by Diet member Tsukumo Kunitoshi in Ome, western Tokyo, this timber guest wing has a tea room, salvaged brewery beams and a hall above the Tama River.

A 28-metre reinforced concrete wall of around 1934 in Ome, western Tokyo, scored with joints imitating timber boarding and roofed in pantiles above high stone banks.

A timber gate of around 1934 in Ome, western Tokyo, its posts and roof frame built from polished cedar logs with the knots left showing, under a gabled pantile roof.

Built in 1932 in Shoan, Suginami Ward, this Tokyo house sets a flat-roofed Western parlour against a tiled irimoya gable. Registered nationally in January 2010.

Tsubameyu in Ueno, Tokyo, a public bath of 1950, has a hip-and-gable shoe porch, a bath hall with steam vents and a tall concrete chimney that marks it as a sento.

In Yanaka, Taito City, this late-Meiji timber shop became a signboard building. Registered in 2023, it still bakes rice crackers over a sunken charcoal kiln.

This 1953 timber house in Midori, Sumida City, groups a formal wing with a tea room and drawing room. Registered in 2008, it opens only for rare guided viewings.

The bell tower of Tokyo Cathedral in Sekiguchi, built in 1964 to Kenzo Tange's design, is a 62-metre concrete tower tapering to a cross, with four bells.

Saint Mary's Cathedral in Sekiguchi, Tokyo, built in 1964 to Kenzo Tange's design, is formed of eight leaning concrete shells under a cross-shaped skylight.

Built in 1931 as a chemistry lab needing its own ventilation, West Building 1 was the first permanent building on Tokyo Tech's Ookayama campus, in Romanesque dress.

Funded wholly by alumni donations after the war and designed by Taniguchi Yoshiro, this hall sinks its seating into a slope so it reads as one storey from the gate.

Built in 1934 after fire destroyed the old campus, Tokyo Tech's Main Building in Meguro runs 127.4 metres, its clock tower anchoring a long pale scratch-tile facade.

Rebuilt in 1932 after the Great Kanto Earthquake, this reinforced-concrete building on the Etchujima campus wears scratch tile and a great semicircular arch.

Built in 1903, this small brick observatory has an octagonal ground floor, a circular upper floor and a rotating dome that once held an equatorial telescope.

Built in 1903, this single-story brick observatory has an octagonal plan and a pyramidal roof, and once held a meridian instrument for keeping precise time.

Built in 1932 as the campus library alongside Building 1, this scratch-tile structure carries a rounded, ship-like projection at its rear on the Etchujima campus.

Built in 1933 as the main building of the Fisheries Training Institute, this symmetrical scratch-tile structure centers on four vertical pilasters.

Raymond's last prewar work here, finished in 1938 under Sugiyama Masanori. A concrete tower, precast tracery, geometric stained glass, a fan-shaped hall.