Edo

An Edo-period storehouse at Murakami, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Its ridge tablet dates it to 1841, and it is taken to have held sake when the family still brewed.

Oppoji Temple Three-Storey Pagoda in Tainai, Niigata: a shingle-roofed pagoda of 1619 sponsored by the lords of Murakami, plain in detail but finely proportioned.

Shugetsuji Temple Main Hall near Mount Yahiko in Niigata City is a 1699 Soto Zen hall by Izumozaki carpenters, with an eight-room plan and thatch under iron sheet.

Jokoji Temple Main Hall in Joetsu, Niigata, is a Shin Buddhist hall rebuilt around 1679, nearly 28 m square under a shingled roof, carved inside as the Pure Land.

Jonenji Temple Main Hall in Murakami, Niigata, is an 1818 Pure Land hall built like a white-plastered storehouse, with a two-storey void for its great Amida Buddha.

An 18th-century thatched farmhouse in Izumi on Sado, home to a line of herbal doctors, designated in 1977 for its offset four-room plan and slender, refined timbers.

Tobashira auxiliary shrine at Yahiko Shrine, Niigata: a thatched hall of 1694 founded by a Nagaoka lord, later home to the guardian gods of the Okozu channel.

The Yamaguchi Family Residence in Itoigawa is a 1779 farmhouse dated by its building accounts, valued for its four-room plan and its curved, adze-hewn beams.

Arakawa Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Tainai, Niigata: an 1841 hip-and-gable hall with a richly carved porch and heavy beams, joined to the sanctuary.

Arakawa Shrine Main Hall in Tainai, Niigata: a tall one-bay sanctuary of 1841 carved with flowing waves, recalling the wealth of a Kitamaebune trading port.

Ikinariya's rear gate, a late-Edo service gate on the hill behind the buildings, has a single lattice leaf with a sliding wicket and carefully chamfered posts.

Ikinariya's main building, in a Niigata ryotei founded around 1700, is a late-Edo two-story wooden hall with an L-shaped doma, one of ten structures registered in 2000.

The Isurugi Shrine Worship Hall in Niigata City is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a railed veranda and porch beam ends carved as baku; registered in 2008.

The Isurugi Shrine Main Hall near Toyosaka Station, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1796 whose carved patterns reflect its age; registered in 2008.

The Inari Shrine Worship Hall and Offering Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, built about 1815, joins a hip-and-gable hall with a chidori-hafu to the main hall.

The Inari Shrine Main Hall in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a gabled sanctuary of 1815 with tapered round posts, degumi brackets and a gable projected in two stages.

Registered in 2025, the Main Building of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City is a late Edo farmhouse whose thatched roof covers a twenty-one mat Ochanoma.

The Shed of the Enami Family Residence in Niigata City, registered in 2025, is a late Edo outbuilding split into a bedding room, a book store and a charcoal store.

A late Edo farmhouse at Hossue in Nagaoka, Niigata, registered in 2011: a hipped thatch roof 13m, an earth-floored niwa, a four-room plan and an attached stable.

Okkonoki Main House in Ojiya, Niigata: a thatched chumon farmhouse of 1867 with fine tatami rooms, saved by its hamlet after the 2004 quake and run as a guesthouse.