Edo

Built in 1689, Sennenji Temple Priests' Quarters in Inuyama, Aichi, is a 21-meter gable-entry kuri with formal rooms west, family rooms east. Registered 2007.

Sennenji Temple Main Hall in Inuyama, Aichi, was built in 1673. Its Jodo-sect plan of veranda, outer and inner sanctuaries survives, and it was registered in 2007.

Zenryuji Temple Shichimen Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, is a late Edo hall to the deity Shichimen. Narrow and deep, it carries bracketed, polychrome work at the sanctuary.

Zenryuji Temple Main Hall in Okazaki, Aichi, dates from 1734. This 184-square-metre Nichiren hall holds a Zen-style altar platform, and was registered in 2015.

Sogakuji Temple Main Hall in Nagoya, built in 1866 by master carpenter Ito Heizaemon VIII, has a columnless outer sanctuary and full coffered ceiling. Visiting tips.

Standing on the mid-slope of historic Mount Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, Sōsuikan is a refined single-story wooden zashiki hall built in 1888 as a guest reception facility and later owned by the Owari Tokugawa family. Restored to its original 1888 appearance in 2022 and registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025, the hipped-roof, tile-roofed building with its formal shikidai entrance offers visitors a graceful encounter with Meiji-era hospitality architecture.

Built in 1814 as a hatamoto's headquarters and moved to Suzawa in 1869, the Takigawa Family Residence Main House is a rare surviving jinya, registered in 2005.

Raised in 1763, half a century before the main house arrived, the Takigawa Family Residence Nagayamon Gate keeps its barred window and studded camphor doors.

Just 0.1 square metres, the Takigawa Family Residence Hokora Shrine has its base, niche and roof each cut from a single stone. Dated to 1525, registered in 2005.

Taki Shrine's 1672 main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a one-bay structure of just 2.4 square metres, registered in 2013 and set within a protective covering hall.

Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.

Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.

The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.

Tokujuji Temple Main Gate in Inuyama, Aichi, is an early Edo yakuimon with red-painted timbers. City records place the southern limit of the castle town right here.

Built in 1827 for the deputy of the Motojuku jin'ya in Okazaki, Aichi, Mokunansha works samurai timbers into a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2020, now a restaurant.

An 1843 farmhouse on the old Ina Kaido in Toyokawa, with a low tsushi attic, a pantiled gable roof and a sunken mulberry pit. Registered in 2022 and privately owned.

A Buddhist hall of 1865 beside a spring-fed pond in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. The oldest building here, with a pyramidal roof and a painted ceiling.

Nyoiji's 1826 four-legged gate in rural Toyota faces the main hall. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, its bracketing and frog-leg struts are pure late Edo.

Nyoiji Shoin in Toyota City, Aichi, began in the late Edo period as a temporary worship hall, later refashioned into a reception room with a raised upper floor.

A small Edo-period bell tower at a Pure Land temple east of Toyota, Nyoiji Shoro was built around 1755 and registered in 2013, with a fine mirror ceiling inside.