Edo

The gatehouse of the Takizawa Residence in Chikuma, Nagano, is a late-Edo thatched nagayamon: hipped at the south end, gabled at the north, following its use below.

The largest building at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, a long dozo storehouse with a monitor roof and three gabled dormers, tied to the founding of the house in 1868.

The late-Edo reception room of the earlier Takeshige house in Motai, kept at the rebuilding and joined to the present Main House. Listed as a model of its form.

A timber charcoal shed across the road at the Takeshige brewery in Motai, said to reuse part of the old main house moved here in 1909, holding the Nakasendo streetline.

A late-Edo single-storey earthen storehouse eleven bays long, raised on a terrace beside the old Nakasendo in Motai, whose white wall shapes the post town's street.

A late-Edo two-storey rice cellar with a set-on roof, standing on the stone embankment where the Nakasendo water channel turns the corner of a Nagano brewery estate.

A late-Edo building twelve bays long beside the Nakasendo water channel in Motai, with a two-storey plastered core, a gate in its western bays and a latticed front.

The late-Edo gate building between the east storehouse and the shop on the old Nakasendo in Motai, its cedar ball and latticed white front the best-known view here.

A stone torii of 1827 before a Nagano brewer's household shrine, 2.3 metres tall, of the Inari type with collar rings, a flat top rail and unusual two-tiered bases.

Built in 1767 in the castle town of Matsushiro, Chōmyō-ji Hondō is a Pure Land Buddhist main hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2014, alongside the temple's sutra repository and main gate. Its richly carved transoms, refined bracket complexes, and elegant frog-leg struts make it a representative late-Edo Jōdo-shū main hall of northern Shinano.

Tsuumo-Imai (Kanehira) Shrine's Kanehira-sha stands in the quiet Kami-Imai district of Matsumoto City, Nagano Prefecture, on a site traditionally identified as the residence of the late Heian samurai Imai Shirō Kanehira — foster brother and most loyal retainer of Kiso Yoshinaka, whose tragic death is immortalised in The Tale of the Heike. Built in 1833 (Tenpō 4), this compact single-bay nagare-zukuri honden of just 4.4 square metres concentrates some of the most exuberant Edo-period sculpture in central Japan, with stacked karahafu and chidori-hafu gables, dragon transoms, lion-and-elephant kibana, wave-cut door panels and Seven Sages carvings on the rear wakishōji. It was added to Japan's Registered Tangible Cultural Properties list on 31 October 2022, together with the precinct's Tsuumo-sha, Shinmei-sha and Kagura-den.

Built in 1857 in Suzaka, Nagano, this two-story earthen storehouse gives each floor its own doorway, and carries the independent placed roof typical of the district.

The oldest of the four registered Nakano buildings in Suzaka, Nagano, this late Edo storehouse kept the shop's silk stock behind thick stepped-plaster doors.

Near the center of the Nagano Meijo brewery in Chikuma, this late-Edo storehouse ages sake kasu, the lees left after pressing. Part of a junmai brewery founded in 1689.

West of the main hall at Nagano Meijo in Chikuma, this late-Edo storehouse held brown and polished rice. Old maps show a waterwheel mill once milled grain here.

At the core of Nagano Meijo in Chikuma, this two-storey earthen hall is where rice is washed, mashed and pressed, with koji rooms and a sake shrine on the floor above.

East of the main hall at Nagano Meijo in Chikuma, this late-Edo cellar uses raised-beam framing to form one tall room where tanks of finished sake rest and mature.

At the north edge of Nagano Meijo in Chikuma, this late-Edo gate opens onto the Hokkoku Nishiwaki highway. One half is the gateway, the other a former gatekeeper's room.

Discover the Nonaka Family Residence Main House in Matsushiro, Nagano — a late-Edo period samurai dwelling once occupied by a district magistrate, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2006.

Located in Matsushiro, Nagano City, the Main Hall of Baiou-in is the central building of a Sōtō Zen temple founded in 1672 by the Sanada family to honour Lady Ukyō, a concubine of Sanada Nobuyuki, the first lord of the Matsushiro Domain. After damage in the great Zenkōji Earthquake of 1847, the single-storey wooden hipped-roof hall with a six-room hōjō plan was rebuilt in 1861. It faithfully expresses the character of late-Edo regional Sōtō Zen architecture and was registered, together with its temple gate, as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2014. The temple is also known for an unusual statue of Gyoran Kannon riding a carp and a monument to the children's song 'Mite Gozaru.'