Edo
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The Rengebuji Temple Taitokuin Mausoleum on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, finely carved and painted, beside the Toshogu.
The Rengebuji Temple Toshogu Shrine on Sado is a tiny mid-Edo shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu, its whole exterior covered in carving and colour, housed in a shelter.
The Rengebuji Temple Dokkodo Hall on Sado is a gabled stone shrine by a spring up a side valley, with a stone inscribed 1622 and demon faces on its ridge ends.
The Rengebuji Temple Niomon Gate on Sado, built in 1822, is an eight-legged gate housing the guardian kings, with round pillars and plinths with donors' names.
The Rengebuji Temple Octagonal Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo eight-sided hall whose carved, three-stepped bracketing forms a dragon among clouds around the eaves.
The Rengebuji Temple Hassodo Hall on Sado is a mid-Edo three-bay hall whose five-stepped bracketing and thatch-form copper roof give it an outsized roof.
The Rengebuji Temple Mitsugondo Hall on Sado, built in 1844, is a small pyramidal-roofed hall on the Sado Shikoku pilgrimage, with carefully carved interior details.
The Rengebuji Temple Mumyo Bridge on Sado is a late Edo stone girder bridge on the path to the Kobodo, its 36 deck slabs carved underneath with Sanskrit letters.
Built in 1855 as a village headman's residence and now the main hall of a kappo ryokan in Kashiwazaki, Niigata, this 350-square-metre house was registered in 2005.
Built in 1850 as the honjin of Yakiyama on the Aizu Kaido, this thatched house in Aga, Niigata became a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2024. Not open.
Registered in 2000, this mid-18th-century Niigata farmhouse housed the Furuyama village headmen. Its T-shaped plan lifts a bell-striker roof over 349 square metres.
A 20-square-metre storehouse on a Niigata headman's compound, with a coffered ceiling and a Buddhist altar built into its ground floor. Registered in 2000.
Saieiji Rokuwatei in Tokamachi, Niigata, is a 34-square-metre hall of 1857. Once the main hall of the dissolved Eitokuji temple, it was registered in 2000.
The Inari Shrine Mikoshi Storehouse in Kuzutsuka, Niigata City, is a late Edo store for the portable shrine, built like a gabled shrine with a porch and brackets.
Inside Sado's Edo magistrate's office sat a refinery. Its 928 excavated items—172 lead plates weighing seven tons, ore mortars, ceramics—reveal how a World Heritage gold mine truly ran.