Edo
Miyazaki · 江戸Browse Miyazaki’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Akagi Family Residence in Tsuno, Miyazaki, is an 1844 merchant house that also lodged daimyo as a honjin. See its guest rooms, storehouse and stone-based barn.
Takachiho Shrine's 1778 main hall in highland Miyazaki is a grand five-bay nagare-zukuri in plain zelkova, carved with dragons, a phoenix, and a local hero's legend.
Shiiba's Nasu Family Residence, an 1823 Important Cultural Property, is 25 meters long yet one room deep, and known as Tsurutomi Yashiki after a Genpei-era legend.
Dated to 1787 by a carved post inscription, this is Miyazaki's oldest documented farmhouse: no doma, just two board-floored rooms in an archaic mountain plan.
The main hall of Mikado Shrine in Misato, Miyazaki, at the eastern foot of the Kyushu Mountains, is a seven-bay nagare-style hall of 1661, dated by its ridge tags.
The Aitai Bridge of 1729 in Ebino, Miyazaki, a single stone arch, carries a water channel and the old road to Hitoyoshi side by side on a double ring of stones.
The Watanabe Family Residence Main House in Aburatsu, Nichinan, is a late-Edo merchant house registered in 2006, with lattice windows along its 9-bay street front.