is a programme sponsored by the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs, aimed at valorization by local governments and other bodies, that sees individual Cultural Properties across different categories as well as other not-yet-designated assets grouped together into thematic "stories" that the agency then designates as "Japan Heritage". The first asset was designated in 2015, and as of June 2020, there were 104 of these narratives.
List Story Title Image Location Tangible Properties Intangible Properties Folk Properties Monuments Other Properties Undesignated Assets Ref. Prefecture Municipality#001 Educational Heritage from Early-Modern Japan (1568–1868): The Origins of Academics and DecorumKinsei Nihon no kyōiku isan-gun (manabu kokoro・reisetsu no hongen) Ibaraki Mito Former Kōdōkan; Tokiwa Park (Kairaku-en); Nisshin Juku Site Former Mito Shōkōkan (ja); Dai Nihonshi Tochigi Ashikaga National Treasure Chinese books (Correct Interpretation of the Book of Rites, Correct Interpretation of the Book of Documents, Wen Xuan, Detailed Commentary on the Book of Changes) Sekiten festival (ja) Ashikaga Gakkō Site (including the Confucian Temple and associated buildings) Okayama Bizen Former Shizutani School Former Shizutani School; Kumazawa Banzan Residence Site; Well-field Site Sekisai ceremony; Bizen Province Wake District Ida Village Nobehara Family Documents Ōita Hita Chōfuku-ji Hondō Kangi-en Site (ja); Hirose Tansō Former Residence; Hirose Tansō's Grave Hita City Mameda-machi (ja) Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings Keirin-en Site; Historical Materials relating to the Kangi-en旧弘道館、常磐公園（偕楽園）、旧水戸彰考館跡、日新塾跡、大日本史、足利学校跡（聖廟および附属建物を含む）、国宝漢籍『礼記正義』『尚書正義』『文選』『周易注疏』、釋奠、旧閑谷学校、釈菜、備前国和気郡井田村延原家文書、熊沢蕃山宅跡、井田跡、咸宜園跡、日田市豆田町重要伝統的建造物群保存地区、廣瀬淡窓旧宅及び墓、長福寺本堂、桂林園跡、咸宜園関係歴史資料 --> #002 Kakaa Denka: The Silk Story of GunmaKakaa denka (Gunma no kinu monogatari) Gunma Nakanojō Tomizawa Family Residence Nakanojō Town Kuni Akaiwa (ja) Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings Katashina Nagai Method (ja) Sericultural School Laboratory House Portrait of Nagai Ito Kanra Former Obata-gumi Silk Production Brick Warehouse Materials of Sericulture, Silk Reeling, Textiles in Kanra Town; Stone Monument of Kanra-sha Obata-gumi Kiryū Former Model Factory and Kiryū Nenshi Gōshi Gaisha Office Building Kiryū City Kiryū Shinmachi (ja) Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings; Gotō Orimono; Textile Museum “Yukari”; Kiryū Textile Hall Former Building (ja) Shirataki Jinja (ja)富沢家住宅、中之条町六合赤岩伝統的建造物群保存地区、永井流養蚕伝習所実習棟、旧小幡組製糸レンガ造り倉庫、甘楽町の養蚕・製糸・織物資料、甘楽社小幡組由来碑、白瀧神社、旧模範工場・桐生撚糸合資会社事務所棟、桐生市桐生新町伝統的建造物群保存地区、後藤織物、織物参考館“紫”、桐生織物会館旧館、永井いと像 --> #003 Takaoka, Town of Flourishing Folk Culture Under the Rule of the Maeda Family of Kaga: People, Technologies, Hearts and MindsKaga Maeda-ke yukari no chōmin bunka ga hanasaku machi Takaoka (hito, waza, kokoro) Toyama Takaoka Zuiryū-ji; Gofuku-machi Shinmeisha (ja) Honden; Omoto-machi Shinmeisha Haiden; Official Autograph Letter of Maeda Toshinaga; Plan of Takaoka produced in Meiwa 8; Sugano Family Residence; Ikadai Family Residence; Dozōzukuri-no-Machi Shiryōkan (Former Murosaki Family Residence); Letter of Order (ja) of the Nin'an era; Letter from Maeda Toshinaga; Seated Bronze Statue of Amida Nyorai (ja); Toide Otaya (ja); Shōkō-ji (ja); Fushiki Kitamaebune Museum (Former Akimoto Family Residence) Takaoka Mikurumayama festival floats (ja); Takaoka Mikurumayama festival; Wooden Form for a Dragon's Head on a Temple Bell; Manufacturing Techniques of Etchū Fukuoka Sedge-woven Hats Maeda Tosinaga's Mausoleum; Takaoka Castle Site Yamachō-Suji (ja) Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings; Kanaya-machi (ja) Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings; Ariso-shō Hachimangū (Honden, Fishing Pavilion, Haiden, Heiden); Takaoka Casting Tools and Ware (ja); Former Nanbu Foundry Cupola Furnace and Chimney (ja); Tanada Family Residence; Yoshimatsu Family Residence; Aritō Family Residence; Takaoka Chamber of Commerce and Industry Fushiki Branch; Fushiki Meteorological Museum (Former Fushiki Weather Station Building and Wind Measurement Tower) (ja); Maruya Family Residence; Sano Family Residence; Kiyoto Sake Brewery Yoshibee Memorial Stele (Iya Susume Ushi no Mikoto Site); Goinsai (ja) festival; Fushiki Port (ja) (Fushiki Bay); Row of Sedge-woven Hat Ton'ya 瑞龍寺、前田利長墓所、五福町神明社本殿、大手町神明社拝殿、高岡城跡、前田利長公御親書、高岡御車山、高岡御車山祭の御車山行事、与四兵衛顕彰碑、明和八年製高岡町図、山町筋伝統的建造物群保存地区、菅野家住宅、筏井家住宅、土蔵造りのまち資料館（旧室崎家住宅）、金屋町伝統的建造物群保存地区、仁安の御綸旨、前田利長書状、有磯正八幡宮、銅造阿弥陀如来坐像、高岡鋳物の製作用具及び製品、御印祭、旧南部鋳造所キュポラ及び煙突、梵鐘龍頭木型、戸出御旅屋の門、勝興寺、伏木港、伏木北前船資料館（旧秋元家住宅）、棚田家住宅、能松家住宅、有藤家住宅、高岡商工会議所伏木支所、伏木気象資料館（旧伏木側候所庁舎・測風塔）、丸谷家住宅、佐野家住宅、清都酒造場、越中福岡の菅笠製作技術、菅笠問屋の町並み --> #004 The Noto Peninsula: Where the Light DancesAkari mau hantō Noto (nekkyō no Kiriko matsuri) Ishikawa Anamizu Okinami Tairyō Matsuri Nanao Fujitsu Hiko Jinja (Fujitsu Hiko Jinja Honden) Notojima ; (Roppo Osuzumi Matsuri); Shiotsu Kagari Love of Fire Festival (Shiotsu Osuzumi Matsuri); (Natauchi Osuzumi Matsuri) Karashima Jinja Grasses and Machilus thunbergii Forest ; Noto Koiji Fire Festival; Abare Festival (Ushitsu Kiriko Matsuri) Yanagida Taisai; Niwaka-sai; Matsunami Ningyō Kiriko Matsuri Shika Togi Hassaku Sairei; Saikai Matsuri Suzu Takojima Hayafune Kyōgen Grasses at Jike Kiriko Matsuri; ; Takojima Kiriko Matsuri Wajima Minazuki Matsuri; Goshinji Daiko; Gojinjō Daiko (Wajima Nabune Gojinjō Daiko); Nakashimaya Daikiriko Wajima Taisai; Nabune Taisai; Sosogi Taisai#005 Wakasa Province: A Cultural Heritage Linking the Sea to the Ancient CapitalUmi to miyako o tsunagu Wakasa no ōrai bunka isan-gun (miketsu-kuni Wakasa to saba kaidō) Fukui Mihama Mikata Five Lakes Obama Remains of Okozu salt manufacturing facilities; Wakasa Kokubun-ji; Mantoku-ji Wakasa Wakibukuro Kofun-gun (Jōnozuka Kofun, Nishizuka Kofun, Nakatsuka Kofun); Hikasa Kofun-gun (Kamifunazuka Kofun, Shimofunazuka Kofun); Mikata Five Lakes #006 An Ancient Castle Town with the Spirit of Nobunaga’s Hospitality"Nobunaga-kō no omotenashi" ga ikizuku sengoku jōkamachi Gifu Gifu Gifu Gifu Castle Site #007 Saikū: The Palace of Saiō - the Imperial Princess Prays"Inoru kōjo saiō no miyako Saikū Mie Meiwa Artefacts Excavated from the Saikū Site (collection of ) Saikū Site; Site of Saiō Ononominato Purification Ceremony Saiō Woods; Take Jinja; ; Monument at Takegawa no Hanazono; Grave of ; ; Narihira's Pine; Site of Sasafue Angū (temporary royal palace); Birthplace of Kakechikara offering #008 Lake Biwa and Its Surroundings: A Water Heritage Site of Life and PrayerBiwa-ko to sono mizu-be keikan (inori to kurashi no mizu isan) Shiga Higashiōmi (Ōmi Merchant Houses) Traditional Regional Dishes Iba Waterside Sightseeing; Traditional Methods of Fishing Hikone Hikone Castle Traditional Regional Dishes Former Hikone Domain Matsubara Suburban Residence Gardens (Ohama Goten); (Genkyū Rakuraku-en); Hikone Castle Traditional Methods of Fishing Maibara Asahi Hōnen Taiko Odori Dance; Traditional Regional Dishes Western Slope of Mount Ibuki; Nakasendō Samegai-juku Nakasendō Samegai-juku; Higashikusano Mountain Village Sightseeing Traditional Methods of Fishing Nagahama Chikubu-shima Traditional Regional Dishes Chikubu-shima Scenery of the Traditional Methods of Fishing Ōmihachiman ; Traditional Regional Dishes ; Traditional Methods of Fishing Ōtsu Hieizan Enryaku-ji; Mii-dera (Onjō-ji); Hiyoshi Taisha; ; Ishiyama-dera Traditional Regional Dishes Hieizan Enryaku-ji; Ishiyama-dera Traditional Methods of Fishing Takashima Shirahige Jinja; Shikobuchi Faith Traditional Regional Dishes Shirahige Jinja; Kaizu, Nishihama & Chinai Waterside Sightseeing; Harie & Shimofuri Waterside Sightseeing; Ōmizo Waterside Sightseeing Traditional Methods of Fishing-->