Old Catedral of St. Joseph, Tokyo

The Catedral of St. Joseph (Japanese: 聖ヨゼフ聖堂) also called St. Joseph's Church is the name given to a historic Catholic church, located in the city of Tokyo, the capital of the Asian country of Japan. The temple was consecrated in honor of St. Joseph. It stands out as the first Catholic church throughout Tokyo.

The church was founded by missionaries of the Paris Foreign Missions Society, which was established in Tokyo in 1871. On July 2, 1874, they bought a piece of land to the Japanese government of 900 square meters for the Catholic Church and began construction was completed on November 22 of the same year. The Church of St. Joseph, since then it has become the center of Catholic missionaries who worked in Japan, especially in the north of Tokyo. In 1874, the bishop of Tokyo gave the church the status of cathedral and seat of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Japan (now called Catholic Archdiocese of Tokyo or Archidioecesis Tokiensis; カトリック東京大司教区). In December 1874 began a restructuring of the temple, which ended on November 15, 1878.

The Church of St. Joseph was the cathedral until 1920, when the local bishop moved to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.