Edo

Discover the magnificent Senshū-ji Nyorai-dō, a National Treasure Buddhist hall featuring Japan's largest Zen-style architecture, housing a Kaikei masterpiece, surrounded by historic temple town with complete moats and lotus gardens.

Discover Senju-ji Miei-do, Mie Prefecture's first National Treasure building. This magnificent 1666 Buddhist hall features 780 tatami mats, golden interiors, and stands as Japan's 5th largest wooden temple. Explore the historic Isshinden temple town with its preserved moat.

Discover Raikoji Temple's magnificent Main Hall in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture—a nationally designated Important Cultural Property showcasing exceptional Edo-period Buddhist architecture funded by the legendary Mitsui merchant family.

Discover the Kadoya Family Trade-Related Documents, Important Cultural Properties of Japan preserved at Jingu Chokokan Museum in Ise. This remarkable collection of 11 artifacts—including a rare parchment navigation chart, vermilion seal flags, and historic documents—reveals the fascinating story of Japanese maritime merchants who sailed to Vietnam in the early 17th century. Learn about Kadoya Shichirōbei, who chose exile over abandoning his Vietnamese family during Japan's sakoku isolation.

Discover the Jingu Saishu Shokusha Main Building, a nationally designated Important Cultural Property in Ise City. Originally built as the guest hall of Keikoin, a Buddhist nunnery whose abbesses revived Ise Jingu's sacred Shikinen Sengu ceremony, this early Edo-period shoin-zukuri masterpiece stands along the famous Oharai-machi Street near the Inner Shrine.

Built in 1863 for samurai guarding Matsusaka Castle, two row houses face each other across a hedged lane in Mie, the largest of their kind, still lived in today.

Discover Asakichi Ryokan Maegura, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ise, Mie Prefecture. This Edo-period storehouse is part of the last surviving inn on the historic Furuichi pilgrimage road connecting Ise Grand Shrine's outer and inner sanctuaries.

The Kadoya Ryokan Main Building in Tsu City, Mie Prefecture, is a remarkably preserved Edo-period inn on the historic Ise Betsu Kaidō highway. Its traditional façade with sliding shutters and lattice windows, along with pilgrimage confraternity tablets, vividly recalls the era of mass Ise pilgrimage. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2008.

At the Nagatani-en works in Iga, a multi-chamber climbing kiln runs 34 meters up a south-facing slope. Built in the late Edo period, it fired Iga ware into the 1970s.

Discover Myokaji Temple Main Hall, an 1857 Edo-period Jodo Shinshu Takada-ha temple registered as a national tangible cultural property in Hisai, Tsu City, Mie Prefecture. Explore its distinctive shikoro-buki roof, ornate worship canopy, and samurai-era heritage.