Edo
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A single-storey timber house at the Okute post station in Mizunami, Gifu. A quatrefoil window sits in the low wall above its front eaves, with a crest beside it.
A former lodging house at the Ota post station on the Nakasendo in Minokamo, Gifu. Plastered to the eaves, it still leaves its head rails and brackets in view.
The storehouse of the Arakawa Family Residence in Takayama was built in 1747, forty-nine years before the main house. Both were designated in 1971. Free entry.
The Kosaka Family Residence in Mino, Gifu, is a working sake brewery dating to 1772 and the town's sole Important Cultural Property, with a convex roof and udatsu.
The Shinchokokuji Temple Guest Hall in Seki, Gifu, is an early Edo copper-roofed guest hall, designated in 1953, with a garden view of the pagoda. 300 yen, booking.
Village headman's farmhouse of 1809 moved to the Hida Folk Village in Takayama. Seven building ledgers survive, and it blends Hida and Mino styles. Open to visitors.
Nangu Shrine in Tarui, Gifu, is the first shrine of Mino. Fifteen halls rebuilt for Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1642 and three stone structures are designated.
Built in 1850, the Isaji Family Residence Kamizashiki in Mitake, Gifu, pairs a formal porch with a biwa alcove and was sold off, then brought back, in the Meiji era.
The Isaji Family Residence Main House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo farmhouse, registered in 2018, with a heavy yotsudate timber frame bare over its earth floor.
The Isaji Family Residence Tea House in Mitake, Gifu, is a late Edo six-mat tea room with a wrinkled cedar alcove post, black lacquer sill and pale blue-green walls.
The Isaji Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Mitake, Gifu, is a 20-metre late Edo gatehouse on a rough fieldstone wall above an old road, with lattice windows.
The Umeda Family Residence Main House, home of the Myogaya hatago on the Nakasendo in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is the only Edo-period townhouse left in Unuma.
The Kasami Shrine Worship Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is an open-sided 1746 hall on a stone base whose raised central beams recall a split worship hall.
The Kasami Shrine Main Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1687 three-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary with layered front gables and a cypress-bark roof, registered in 2008.
The Kawai Family Residence Main House in Gujo, Gifu, is a village headman's farmhouse of 1805 with an earth floor, a stable, a silkworm loft and carved brackets.
The Kawai Family Residence East Storehouse in Gujo, Gifu, is a plain 2-storey storehouse of 1824 with a detached tiled roof, a west porch and a board-clad base.
House of 1838 moved in 2005 to Fukuji in Okuhida, Takayama: a 21-metre gabled building of hinoki cypress with projecting lattices and a formal entrance step.
The oldest building of the Goto family compound in Gifu City: a late-Edo, 2-storey plastered storehouse valued as a survivor from before the 1891 Nobi earthquake.
Inn of 1859 at Hosokute-juku on the Nakasendo in Mizunami, Gifu, once the Owari domain's inn, with udatsu firewalls and a black-plastered front; still open.
A headman's house in Itadori, Seki, Gifu, believed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to date to the 17th century, its low roof once cedar bark. Registered 2003.