Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Tokyo

Discover Ohashi Saryo, a registered cultural property in Tokyo featuring five exquisite tea houses including a replica of National Treasure Joan. Experience authentic Japanese tea ceremonies in this urban oasis near Kamiyacho Station.

Discover ICU's Diffendorfer Memorial Hall, a registered tangible cultural property designed by Vories Architectural Office in 1958. Explore its modernist design, early aluminum sash windows, and rich heritage on the tranquil Mitaka campus.

Discover Mitsubishi Electric Takanawa-so, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Tokyo's prestigious Shirokanedai district. This historic estate features three early Showa-period buildings showcasing the finest Japanese-Western hybrid residential architecture of the 1930s.

Standing at the heart of Aoyama Gakuin University's campus in Shibuya, Tokyo, Berry Hall was completed in 1931 as the new School of Theology building, the final phase of recovery from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. This three-story reinforced concrete Neo-Gothic structure honors Dean Arthur D. Berry, who led the American fundraising campaign for its construction. Inside, the Charles Oscar Miller Memorial Chapel houses a 1932 German Walcker pipe organ — believed to be the oldest of its maker still in active use in Japan — and inspired the famous Showa-era song 'Student Days.' Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.

Discover the Arai Family Residence Inner Storehouse (Uchigura) in Chofu, Tokyo — a nationally registered tangible cultural property dating from the late Edo period. Explore this rare surviving example of traditional Musashino farmstead architecture surrounded by historic estate woodland.

A 1.5-metre kitchen gate of about 1907 with sliding board doors, a lamp hung between lintel and ridge beam, and moulded brackets facing a Ueno back lane.

A two-metre bracket gate of about 1907, gabled and tiled, with a lattice window above the opening, chamfered timbers, and a black-plastered wing wall in Ueno.

This 25-square-metre kura of about 1907 looks like stone but is brick over a timber frame, rendered and scored with false joints. Its ground floor held the altar.

Built in 1907 as a Nihonbashi cloth wholesaler's retirement house, this timber home in Ueno Sakuragi appeared in a Meiji plan book and was registered in 2005.

Tucked away in a Kagurazaka backstreet, Issuiryō is a two-story wooden building constructed around 1951 as a carpenters' dormitory. Now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the hand-adzed lattices and skilled joinery of postwar Japanese craftsmanship.

Discover the Echisou Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Bunkyo, Tokyo. Built in 1924 as a thread merchant's headquarters, this reinforced concrete gem features elegant dentils, arched windows, and a distinctive corner tower.

Discover the Edoya Store and Residence in Nihonbashi, Tokyo — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1924. This Art Deco kanban-style building houses Japan's oldest brush specialty shop, founded in 1718 under the Tokugawa shoguns.

Discover the Okada Nikki Shōnin Memorial Auditorium in Suginami, Tokyo — a 1937 reinforced-concrete school hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2022. Learn about its modernist design, founder Okada Nikki Shōnin's vision, and connection to Horinouchi Myōhōji Temple.

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.

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.

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.