Edo

Rebuilt in 1664 by shogun Tokugawa Ietsuna, the Omiwa Shrine Worship Hall is where visitors pray toward Mount Miwa, as the shrine itself has no main sanctuary.

The shoin of Okadera in Asuka, Nara, a study hall of 1644 with four rooms in an L-shape and a kitchen once inside, is among the few shoin with Momoyama roots.

Kashihara Jingu's Main Hall began as a Kyoto Imperial Palace sanctuary of 1855, moved here in 1890. On its bracketless detailing and what visitors can actually see.

The Kikuya Family Residence in Tsukigase, Nara, is a small thatched farmhouse built around 1700, preserving a three-room plan once common across the Kinai region.

Dated to the Kanbun era and designated in 1973, this cypress-bark hall at Konbu-in convent in Nara follows a Zen abbot's-quarters plan and holds Edo-period panels.

The Saionin Agetsuchimon Gate, early Edo, opens off the approach to Horyuji's Middle Gate beside the Karamon. What an earth-topped gate is, and why this has bark.

Head temple of the Shingon Risshū sect, rebuilt 1798–1808 with all-timber plank walls — a rare construction earning Important Cultural Property status in 1998.

A Jodo sub-temple at the west end of Taimadera, Nara: its Main Hall of 1604, Hojo of 1612 and Bell Tower Gate of 1647 became Important Cultural Properties in 1989.

Built in 1804 on Mount Tamaki in Nara, this Important Cultural Property holds Kano-school painted rooms above a basement retreat once used by mountain ascetics.

South of Sakurai in Nara, Tanzan Shrine holds the world's only wooden thirteen-story pagoda, rebuilt in 1532, among vermilion halls that honor Fujiwara no Kamatari.

Todaiji's Corridor, two Edo-period ranges built 1716-1737 that run 41 bays from the Middle Gate to frame the Great Buddha Hall: its form, designation and access.

The Great Buddha Hall of Todaiji, consecrated in 1709: why its front shrank from 11 bays to 7, the composite pillars and karahafu gable, plus hours, fees and photos.

Todaiji's Sanmaido, or Shigatsudo, a three-bay hall of 1681 with Kamakura timbers and a Heian Fugen on an elephant, now closed for seismic work from May 2025.

Todaiji's Middle Gate, a five-bay rōmon of 1714 in front of the Great Buddha Hall: why it followed the hall, when its doors open and the window view of the Buddha.

Todaiji's western Tozai Gakumon Gate, an eight-legged gate of 1719 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor: how it fits the Edo rebuilding, its form and how to view it.

Todaiji's eastern Tozai Gakumon Gate, built in 1722 in the Great Buddha Hall corridor, and how it compares with the Nara-period Tegaimon Gate of the same type.

Todaiji's Nigatsudo Hall, rebuilt in 1669 under the shogun Ietsuna: its stage over the slope, nested sanctuaries shaped by the Shunie and free 24-hour access.

An early-Edo farmhouse in Nara's Yoshino hills, Nishida House keeps medieval rafter framing and a front-parlor plan, named an Important Cultural Property in 1968.

The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Earthen Walls, mostly rebuilt in 1697, run about 538 m in three sections linking the great gates; part of the west wall is older.

The Horyuji Temple Western Precinct Southwest Sub-Temple Walls are Edo-period earthen walls along the approach, linking the Saionin gates and Bathhouse Front Gate.