Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

Discover Seikō Lodging, a rare 1930s Western-style boarding house in Tokyo's Ogikubo neighborhood. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property features a distinctive copper dome roof and continues to operate as Ryokan Seikō, offering overnight stays in a living piece of Japanese history.

Discover Solfège School, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Mejiro, Tokyo, designed by renowned modernist architect Junzo Yoshimura in 1967 for his violinist wife. Explore its architectural beauty, musical heritage, and unique solfège education method.

Discover Tiger Building in Kuramae, Tokyo — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1934. This reinforced concrete apartment building survived the Tokyo air raids and stands as the oldest building in Taito Ward.

The Taiyo Building (Maruishi Building) in Kanda Kaji-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1931. Designed by Yamashita Toshiro—the architect behind Japan's first skyscraper, the Kasumigaseki Building—this rare Romanesque Revival office building features exquisite stone carvings, ornamental reliefs, and guardian lion statues.

Tsubame-yu, a working wooden bathhouse built in 1950 in Ueno, Taito Ward, Tokyo, became in 2008 the first public bathhouse in the city to be registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Famous for its early-morning soak from 6 a.m., its scalding water, and a striking rock formation made from real Mount Fuji lava, it offers an authentic encounter with postwar sento culture in the heart of Okachimachi.

Rising 62 meters above the Sekiguchi neighborhood of Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward, the Tokyo Cathedral Bell Tower is a masterwork of postwar modernist religious architecture by Tange Kenzo. With a footprint of just 12 square meters, four subtly twisted concrete faces, four German-cast bells suspended near the summit, and a cross-shaped pinnacle, the tower was designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025. This guide introduces its history, design, and how to visit.

Rising on a hilltop in Tokyo's Sekiguchi district, St. Mary's Cathedral was completed in 1964 to a design by Kenzo Tange and is celebrated as a masterwork of post-war modernism. Discover the eight stainless-steel shells that form a cross from above, the column-free sanctuary lit by a cross-shaped skylight, the bell tower, the Lourdes grotto, and how to plan your visit.

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.

Built in 1927 for the family of founder A. K. Reischauer, in the years when Raymond was moving out from under Wright. Its ground floor serves students now.

Built as the home of Yasui Tetsu, the university's first dean. At 111 sq m it is much the smallest of the seven registered buildings on this campus today.

Home to the university's foreign teaching staff, four units above and shared rooms below. Horizontal eaves and carved capitals show Raymond under Wright.

Completed in 1924 among the earliest buildings on this campus: an E-shaped plan, a hall projecting behind the entrance, and a Wrightian central section.

Built in 1931 as the university library, this white concrete hall closes the axis from the front gate. A Latin motto is cut into its wall, and Wright's echo lingers.

Built for the science classrooms and the largest of the seven at 1,453 sq m. Its south half came first, and triple steel sash windows face Building No. 7.

Discover the University of Tokyo Faculty of Law Building No. 3, a registered tangible cultural property designed by Yoshikazu Uchida in 1927. Explore its Gothic arches, scratch tile façade, and the historic Hongo campus.