Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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