Cultural Path

Nagoya City Hall and Aichi Prefectural Government office building

The Cultural Path (文化のみち, Bunka-no-michi) is located between Naka-ku and Higashi-ku in the centre of Nagoya, Japan. It shows a number of historic buildings that are under heritage protection.

The area was designated in 1999. The area's historic buildings range back from the Edo period to the Meiji era and Taishō era of the 1920s. Included in the list are mansions, government buildings, temples, and shrines. Many of them are registered as Tangible Cultural Property.

List of such historic monuments

Brick and concrete buildings

Nagoya City Hall main building, from 1933, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
Aichi Prefectural Government Office, from 1938, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
former Aichi Credit Unions Association hall, from 1933–38, today used as Aichi Prefectural Office Ōtsubashi branch
former Nagoya Court of Appeal district courthouse, from 1922, designated as an Important Cultural Property, today used as Nagoya City Archives and municipal museum
Kinjō Gakuin High School Keikō-kan Auditorium. 1936, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
Nagoya Ceramics Hall, 1932, architectural expressionism Art Deco design by Ichiei Takasu, Important Landscape Building
Nagoya Municipal Tsutsui Elementary School, 1936, the only remaining pre-war primary school building in the city
Tokai Gakuen Auditorium, 1931, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
former mansion of Nagoya mayor Toranosuke Okita, from 1920, today used as Aichi Prefecture Lawmakers Hall

Wooden buildings

Kenchū-ji, from 1651, Registered Tangible Cultural Property, Designated Prefectural Cultural Property, Designated Cultural Property and Important Urban Landscape Building
Sadaso-in, from 1608, built under Tokugawa Yoshimichi
old Toyoda family house wall (Risaburo Toyoda Teiato), from 1918, Important Urban landscape Building with remaining gate and fence
old restaurant - Camphor, Taishō era, Important Urban landscape Building
former Nakai Onorejiro House, from 1911, today used as a restaurant
former Tetsujiro Haruta House, from 1925, Important Traditional Building and Landscape Structure, European-style building of Design and Preservation
former Sasuke Toyoda House, from 1923, Sakichi Toyoda's brother, traditional building
former Sadayakko Kawakami House from 1920, today Futaba Museum of Culture, Registered Tangible Cultural Property and Important Landscape Building
former Tamesaburo Imoto House, from 1926, today Shumoku Museum of Culture, Specified Tangible Cultural Heritage, Important Landscape Building, traditional building of townscape preservation district
former Okaya Sosuke House, from 1920, remaining tearoom, storehouse and garden
Chikara-machi Nagayamon, from mid-Edo period, remaining gate of Samurai mansion
Catholic Chikaramachi Church, from 1904, Important Urban Landscape Building, oldest Catholic church in the city
Omori's Residence, from 1916, Important Urban Landscape Building
Ito house, from early Taishō era, Important Urban Landscape Building
Chokyū-ji, from 1610, temple

Museums

Nagoya Castle
Tokugawa Art Museum, from 1935, museum exhibiting treasure of the Tokugawa Owari lords
Hōsa Library, from 1950, public library from the collection of the Owari Tokugawa family
Rakushi Museum, from 1987, exhibition with a focus on MatsuHana hall in the Edo era and tea utensils
Hori Museum, from 2006, Setsuko Migishi, Yuzo Saeki, Foujita Fujita, Ryuzaburo Umehara exhibited works
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Currency Museum, moved in spring of 2009 to the present location, opened in 1961 as the "Tokai Bank Money Museum"

Other

Tokugawa Garden, gardens of the Tokugawa mansion around the Tokugawa museum
Sannomaru garden, from 1881, relocated the part of the Nagoya Castle Ninomaru Gardens, including the former army officers club Kaikosha Nantei fortification
Nanao Shrine, founded in early 16th century, Owari clan chief retainer Naruse family
Akatsuka Shinmeisha, reconstructed under Tokugawa Yoshinao in 1619 (Kanei 5), some remaining buildings that survived the war
Crescent mound, from 1743, Basho Matsuo fifty years death anniversary monument

External links

Media related to Cultural Path at Wikimedia Commons