Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

Discover the Ginza Onoya Store and Main Residence, a precious wooden commercial building from 1951 that preserves the postwar streetscape of Ginza. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property is home to a traditional tabi shop with a unique pentagonal floor plan.

Discover the Ginza Lion Building, home to Japan's oldest surviving beer hall since 1934. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring stunning glass mosaic murals, Art Deco design, and the timeless spirit of Tokyo's Ginza district.

Discover the Kurosawa Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ueno, Tokyo. Built in 1930 as the Ogawa Eye Hospital, this Expressionist-style reinforced concrete building houses the final stained glass masterpieces of Ogawa Sanchi, Japan's pioneering stained glass artist.

Gengi Sanbo in Ogikubo, Suginami, Tokyo, is the former residence of Kadokawa Genyoshi, founder of KADOKAWA and renowned haiku poet. Designed by architect Kakurai Akio, this modern sukiya-style building is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Now open free as the Suginami Poetry Hall, visitors can explore the exhibition room, tea room, and a beautiful seasonal Japanese garden.

Built in 1925, the National Astronomical Observatory Main Gate has four concrete posts faced in irregular stone, fluted capitals and a lamp over the central opening.

Built in 1930 to hold the observatory's books, this two-storey concrete block at Mitaka in Tokyo shows scratch tile, slim continuous canopies and one round window.

Completed in 1924 at Mitaka in Tokyo, this half-round concrete room holds a French meridian circle of 1903 on a foundation isolated from the building itself.

Standing 100 metres south of the meridian circle at Mitaka in Tokyo, this 1925 concrete box of 7.3 square metres exists to hold a single reference mark.

Completed in 1921, the oldest observing building on the Mitaka campus holds a 20-centimetre Zeiss refractor on a weight-driven mounting under a hand-cranked dome.

Built in 1926 and 19.5 metres tall, this Mitaka dome holds Japan's largest refractor at 65 centimetres and an observing floor that once rose and fell like a lift.

Standing 100 metres north of the meridian circle at Mitaka in Tokyo, this 1925 concrete box of 7.2 square metres is the twin of the mark room to the south.

Completed in 1930 at Mitaka in Tokyo, the tower known as the Einstein Tower is itself the telescope tube, sending sunlight 20 metres down to a basement spectrograph.

Built in 1924, the National Astronomical Observatory Guard House is the only timber structure among the ten registered entries on the campus, with half-timbering.

Built in 1925 at Mitaka in Tokyo, this small concrete room has a gable roof on rails that slides open, and now displays the 1880 Repsold transit instrument.

Kosugiyu is a working public bathhouse in the Kōenji district of Tokyo, in continuous operation since 1933 and listed in 2020 as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. With its temple-style curved gable, 287-square-metre wooden frame, signature milk bath, well-fed cold pool, and painted Mount Fuji on the wall, this is one of only three sentō within Tokyo to receive such a designation — a rare chance to soak in genuine architectural heritage for the price of an ordinary bath ticket.

The Gotoh Museum Main Building, designed by master architect Yoshida Isoya and completed in 1960, stands as a remarkable reinterpretation of Heian-period palace architecture in reinforced concrete. Located in Kaminoge, Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, the building incorporates elements of shinden-zukuri court design — large round columns, shitomi-do shutters, wide verandas, and deep horizontal eaves — into a thoroughly modern structure. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, it houses a collection of about 5,000 works including five National Treasures such as the celebrated Tale of Genji Picture Scrolls, set within an expansive garden along the Kokubunji Cliff Line.

Hiroo Elementary School in Shibuya is a 1932 reinforced-concrete schoolhouse from Tokyo's post-earthquake rebuilding, still in use with a rooftop fire-watch tower.

A 1932 Western house in Tokyo's Sendagi by architect Yabe Matakichi: German-influenced design, stained glass of warships, and links to a beriberi doctor.

The Shimura Residence's registered gate and 57-meter Oya-stone wall in Seijo, Tokyo, built around 1939 and topped with a hedge, recall how the suburb was planned.

The Shimoda Residence in Nishitokyo housed Tanashi's hereditary headmen. A late-Edo, copper-roofed timber farmhouse, it is the city's oldest, registered in 2019.