# Cultural Path

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The **Cultural Path** (文化のみち, *Bunka-no-michi*) is located between [Naka-ku](/source/Naka-ku,_Nagoya) and [Higashi-ku](/source/Higashi-ku,_Nagoya) in the centre of [Nagoya](/source/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](/source/Edo_period) to the [Meiji era](/source/Meiji_era) and [Taishō era](/source/Taish%C5%8D_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](/source/Nagoya_City_Hall) main building, from 1933, Registered Tangible Cultural Property Important Urban Landscape Building
- [Aichi Prefectural Government Office](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Aichi_Prefecture) Lawmakers Hall

### Wooden buildings

- [Kenchū-ji](/source/Kench%C5%AB-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](/source/Sakichi_Toyoda)'s brother, traditional building
- former [Sadayakko Kawakami](/source/Sada_Yacco) 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](/source/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](/source/Choky%C5%AB-ji), from 1610, temple

### Museums

- Nagoya Castle
- [Tokugawa Art Museum](/source/Tokugawa_Art_Museum), from 1935, museum exhibiting treasure of the Tokugawa Owari lords
- [Hōsa Library](/source/H%C5%8Dsa_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](/source/Migishi_Setsuko), Yuzo Saeki, Foujita Fujita, Ryuzaburo Umehara exhibited works
- [Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ Currency Museum](/source/Bank_of_Tokyo-Mitsubishi_UFJ_Money_Museum), moved in spring of 2009 to the present location, opened in 1961 as the "Tokai Bank Money Museum"

### Other

- [Tokugawa Garden](/source/Tokugawa_Garden), gardens of the Tokugawa mansion around the Tokugawa museum
- Sannomaru garden, from 1881, relocated the part of the [Nagoya Castle](/source/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](/source/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

- [Nagoya International Center | Nagoya’s Cultural Path](https://web.archive.org/web/20160709212456/http://www.nic-nagoya.or.jp/en/e/archives/636)
- [Tourism Aichi | Cultural Path](https://www.aichi-now.jp/spots/detail?spot_id=202)

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