Edo

Discover the Kajiwara Family Residence Storehouse in Himeji's Oshio district, an Edo-period earthen storehouse registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Built in 1842 by a prominent salt-field owning family, it features elegant white plaster walls and fine decorative plasterwork.

Attached to the main house at Ikuno in Asago City, this 22-square-metre storehouse of 1843 keeps a nando below and a tatami room with an alcove above. Free entry.

The Yagi family's household storehouse at Himeji, the only building on the site firmly dated to 1846, a two-story mud-walled store with a raised-beam roof.

Main house of the Yagi family, hereditary headmen on the Ibo River in Himeji, a large single-story farmhouse under a hip-and-gable roof, registered in 2021.

A two-story mud-walled storehouse in the Yagi compound at Himeji. Its west half is a shoin parlor for receiving domain officials, its east half a plain store.

The rice granary of the Yagi family, who held the annual tax rice at Himeji. This two-story mud-walled store sits by a former waterway for loading by boat.

The gatehouse of the Yagi compound at Himeji. Behind its formal tiled facade with a wicket door lay the estate's counting room to the west and a cattle shed.

Discover Gokurakuji Niomon, an early-Edo two-story temple gate built in 1728 in Taka Town, Hyogo. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring rare Daibutsu-yō details and a striking vase-shaped strut, set against quiet rural mountainsides.

Saishō-ji Main Hall in Kamisakabe, Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture is a 1722 Jōdo Shinshū Hongan-ji-ha temple hall registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in March 2024. With its seven-by-seven bay irimoya hip-and-gable roof in formal hongawara tile and archaic square pillars at every bay, it stands as a fine example of a mid-sized Pure Land main hall and the historic heart of the old Kamisakabe village community.

Discover Hontokuji Anzaisho, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Himeji, Hyogo. This Edo-period shoin-style building once hosted Emperor Meiji and features exquisite tokonoma alcove decorations and refined craftsmanship.

A late Edo farmhouse at Tatsuno, Hyogo, that served as the honjin of Senbon-juku. Its shikidai entrance and hon-kawara roof mark a headman's rank; registered 2004.

A late Edo gatehouse facing the old Himeji-Tottori highway at Tatsuno, Hyogo. A tatami room lies west of the gate, a board-floored room east; registered 2004.

The Main Hall of Daishin-ji Temple in Hōjō, Kasai City, Hyogo Prefecture, is an Edo-period Pure Land Buddhist hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2010. Belonging to the Seizan Zenrin-ji branch of the Jōdo-shū sect, it stands quietly along the old highway of Hōjō-no-shuku, a former post town that flourished as the temple town of Sumiyoshi Shrine and Sakami-ji, contributing to one of Hyogo Prefecture's most evocative heritage streetscapes.

Built in 1851 at Yokoo in Kasai City, Hyogo, the Takai Family Residence Main Building sets barred plaster loft windows over a projecting lattice front.

An 1820 tea house on the grounds of a Sasayama sake-brewing family, where a six-mat room and a lintel rail can be closed to the classical four-and-a-half-mat tea size.

A late-Edo annex at the northeast corner of the Nishio compound in Sasayama, following the old San'in highway. Its stepped roof, gate and wall frame the entrance garden.

A two-storey earthen storehouse on the Nishio grounds in Sasayama, joining two separate vaults under one placed roof, with twin doorways under an earthen canopy.

Along the north edge of the Nishio compound in Sasayama, an outer wall follows the old San'in highway to a copper-roofed gate, linking the main hall to the tea house.

A late Edo merchant house on Yamasaki's sake brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo, registered nationally in 2024. Mushiko windows, carved eaves brackets, a cafe inside.

A late Edo tool storehouse joined to the Maeno main house on Yamasaki's brewery street in Shiso, Hyogo. Registered in 2024 for the frontage it completes.