Edo

Matsuso-gura is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Takasago, Hyogo Prefecture, built in 1823. This Edo-period earthen storehouse is linked to Shinsengumi member Kawai Kisaburo and preserves the maritime heritage of Takasago, a historic Kitamae-bune trading port on the Seto Inland Sea.

Yoryuji Nio Gate stands as the main entrance to Ryuzan Yoryuji, a Tendai-school mountain temple in Taka Town, Hyogo Prefecture. Built during the Edo period (1661–1751) and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, this three-bay, single-entrance two-story tower gate showcases refined proportions and subtle Daibutsu-yo architectural influences. Discover this quiet gem of northern Harima, along with its Heian-period Buddhist statues and sacred forest.

Tucked into the mountains of Tako, Hyogo, Yoryuji Main Hall is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1751. This Tendai temple, traditionally founded in the seventh century by Hodo Sennin, preserves a remarkable group of Heian-period Buddhist sculptures and over 1,300 years of devotional history centered on the legendary Willow Kannon.

A late Edo earthen-walled storehouse in Tamba-Sasayama, deeper than it is wide, with raked beams on two free-standing posts. Registered in 2007 with its well.

A late Edo merchant house in Tamba-Sasayama, registered 2007. The 15-metre front carries plastered eaves and tile drip courses; its earthen floor is now a shop.

The Lower Stone Bridge of the Hirao Family Residence, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Morio, Toyooka City, Hyogo, is a late Edo-period (1751–1829) stone bridge measuring 3.0m long and 1.5m wide. Built of four combined stones, it spans the Morio River within the grounds of the Hirao family — once Tajima's largest landowner and grand village headman (ōjōya). Together with the estate's gates, storehouses, and washing shed, it preserves a rare and complete pre-modern rural landowner's compound.

A late Edo-period stone bridge at the Hirao Family Residence in Toyooka, Hyogo. This 3.0-meter arched stone span across the Morio River, refined in the Meiji era and registered as a cultural property in 2008, links the gatehouse to the main residence of one of Tajima's foremost landowning families.

On the Morio River's right bank stands the Hirao family's kawaido, a late-Edo well shelter with stone steps down to the water under a light pantiled roof. Not public.

Stone walls line both banks of the Morio River as it divides the Hirao estate, about 148 m in all. Mixed granite and basalt coursing records generations of repair. Not public.

Running 164 metres along the Ajiwara River in Hamasaka, Hyogo, this wall mixes rough Edo masonry with cut stone of 1912 and keeps a boat landing and steps.

Discover the Tomari Shrine Noh Stage, a registered tangible cultural property in Kakogawa, Hyogo. This Edo-period open-air Noh stage, linked to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, features stunning timber framing and hosts the Kakogawa Takigi Noh firelight performances.

Discover Tomari Shrine's Heiden (Offering Hall), an Edo-period registered tangible cultural property in Kakogawa, Hyogo. Connected to the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi through his adopted son Iori, this shrine blends myth, samurai heritage, and traditional architecture.

A National Treasure at Kobe's Hakutsuru Museum: seventy-one scrolls of Nirvana Sutra commentary, fifty-four copied in Tang China, the rest later Japanese additions.