Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

Just a fifteen-minute walk from Shibuya Station, Onko Gakkai Kaikan is a quietly remarkable reinforced-concrete building completed in 1927 and designated a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2000. Designed and built by Shimizu-gumi, today's Shimizu Construction, the hall safeguards over twenty thousand original Edo-period woodblocks for Gunsho Ruijū, the monumental classical anthology compiled by the blind scholar Hanawa Hokiichi. Now open to the public as the Hanawa Hokiichi Memorial Museum, it offers an unforgettable glimpse into Japan's literary heritage.

Mitake Shrine Suigyodo in Ota Ward, Tokyo, is a rare 1867 ablution hall used by Kiso Ontake mountain ascetics. Discover dragon carvings, a sacred well, and a quiet pocket of Edo-period faith just two minutes from Ontakesan Station.

Built in 1928 on the birthplace of Tokyo University, this SRC clubhouse by Toshikata Sano and Teitaro Takahashi served the alumni of Japan's seven former Imperial Universities. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2003 and a Tokyo Metropolitan designation since 2025, it is currently closed for redevelopment until around 2030.

A 1909 wooden library designed by Ministry of Education architect Kuru Masamichi for Gakushuin's Mejiro campus. Registered in 2009, the L-shaped building is rare for its American Stick Style cladding and brackets carved with the school's sakura crest.

Registered in 2020, Kajikaen Watari-Roka is a wooden corridor in Ome, Tokyo, linking four buildings of a former inn down a steep slope by two staircases and a ramp.

A 1930 wooden house in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, drawn by architect Yoji Kanazawa for his father and built by Shimizu-gumi. Registered in 1998 in the scholars' quarter.

A 1930 timber gate with a tiled roof and a 10.7-metre board fence in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. Fine kumiko latticework fills the transom above the tie beam of the gate.

A 29-square-metre weatherboarded studio of 1930 in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, its north-west wall and roof partly glazed. Yoji Kanazawa built it as his own design office.

Built in 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, this 104-square-metre wooden house sets three roof forms over a modern central-corridor plan. Registered in 2009.

A 50-square-metre annexe of 1932 at the rear of a Setagaya plot, holding a ten-mat room with alcove, shelves and writing bay, linked to the main house by a veranda.

A reinforced concrete gateway of 1932 in Umegaoka, Setagaya, with a 2.6-metre opening, pebble-washed surfaces and red panels between pilasters. Registered in 2009.

Standing at the gateway of Asakusa in Tokyo, the Main Building of Kamiya Bar is a six-story reinforced concrete commercial building completed in 1921. As Japan's first establishment to call itself a bar, it survived both the Great Kanto Earthquake and wartime destruction, and was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2011. Discover its iconic triple-arched windows and taste the legendary Denki Bran cocktail created by founder Kamiya Denbei.

The 1930 main house of the Kamei Residence in Setagaya, Tokyo, pairs a pantiled Japanese block with a French-tiled Western wing set beside the entrance.

The main house of the Kawai Residence in Tama City, Tokyo, is an 1885 thatched farmhouse carrying two tiers of silkworm rooms inside its high roof space.

The main house of the Kawahara Residence in Ota Ward, Tokyo, was assembled from an 1885 school building and carries that school's 1925 clock tower on top.

For two months in 1868 the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, confined himself in this modest shoin at Kan'eiji, the room where Tokugawa rule quietly ended.

Designed in 1927 by Okada Shin'ichiro, architect of the Kabukiza, this kuri at Gokokuin is a rare Japanese-style work by a modern master, and Kan'eiji's first sub-temple.

Kan'eiji's main hall was moved from Kita-in in Kawagoe in 1879, after the first burned in the 1868 Battle of Ueno. A seven-bay Tendai hall, it holds a hidden Yakushi.

Said to mark the seventeenth memorial of his first wife, this 1898 hall belongs to Shibusawa Eiichi, father of Japanese capitalism. Fine carvings fill its interior.

East of the main hall at Kanda Myojin sits a 19-square-metre offering house of 1934, built in concrete yet lacquered red-ochre like a sanctuary. Registered 2003.

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