Edo

The Former Wakasaya Inn in Minamiechizen, Fukui, is a late Edo inn in the Imajo post town on the Hokkoku Kaido, with a latticed front and guest rooms upstairs.

The Former Furukawaya Sobei House in Obama, Fukui, a shipping merchant's townhouse of 1865 with street lattices and plastered side walls, is a rare Edo survivor.

An 1823 former inn at Itadori on the Hokkoku Kaido in Fukui. Its thatched helmet roof faces the old road, three guest rooms behind an earth floor. Exterior only.

The Koizumi family main house in Echizen, Fukui, a late Edo farmhouse, combines a thatched gable-entry roof with tiled gables around a plan centred on the main room.

The Saito Family Residence Rice Storehouse is a tall late Edo storehouse on the old Hokuriku Road in Sabae, Fukui, plaster above, boards below. Registered 2016.

The Saito Family Residence Main House in Sabae, Fukui, is a late Edo headman's home with a reception wing said to be built for the lord's visit. Registered in 2016.

The Saito Family Residence East Gate in Sabae, Fukui, is a late Edo zelkova bracket-arm gate built to lead honoured guests to the reception wing. Registered 2016.

Tangando Soan in Fukui City, a domain physician's retreat of about 1846, joins a tea room to a storehouse finished in the sukiya manner with a boat-hull ceiling.

An earthen storehouse range in the Nishino compound, Echizen: Edo stores for mosquito nets and miso, with a taller paper store added about 1925; registered 2017.

A late Edo farmhouse moved from Ikeda to the Nishino papermakers' compound in Echizen in the 1910s, with a tall udatsu on its east gable; registered in 2017.

The Yuasa Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Takahama, Fukui, built in 1855 and moved by hikiya in 1933, is clad in charred cedar and is the oldest building here.

Five mausoleums of the Arima lords at Bairinji in Kurume, Fukuoka, built 1630 to 1655, an Important Cultural Property since 2018, pairing tombs with tablet halls.

The main hall of Kashii-gu in Fukuoka, rebuilt in 1801 by the domain lord Kuroda Nagayori, is the only hall in the Kashii style, with porches on three sides.

Sakurai Shrine in Itoshima keeps its 1632 main hall, worship hall, and gate before a sacred cave from 1610, listed as an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

Hakata's Sumiyoshi Shrine main hall, rebuilt in 1623, keeps the ancient Sumiyoshi-zukuri form: a straight roof, no bracket sets, and red-and-white walls.

An 1842 thatched farmhouse on the pilgrimage road to Mount Hiko in Soeda, Fukuoka. A dated inscription fixed its age; split bamboo clads its rain-struck east wall.

The Minamimaru Tamon Turret of Fukuoka Castle, built by Kuroda Nagamasa, joins a two-storey corner turret to a long turret of 30 ken and was rebuilt in 1854.

Probably the oldest farmhouse in Kyushu, this mid-Edo thatched magariya at Shingu is called Sennen-ya after a Saicho legend. Interior closed; exterior viewable.

Behind Bairin-ji in Kurume lie the Arima lords' tombs. The first two got gilded mausoleum halls, later lords towering stone pagodas, as daimyo customs evolved.

The service gate and brick wall of the Former Yoshihara Residence in Okawa, Fukuoka, join a late Edo sliding-door gate to a 1920s slag brick wall, registered 2017.