Edo
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Built in the late Edo period behind the main house, this storehouse carries two banded courses of plaster and covers even its rafter ends. Listed in 2019.
Built in 1820 as the priests' quarters of this southern Aizu temple, it keeps a farmhouse plan under a face that no farmhouse would show. Listed in 2001.
Ten square metres built in 1776, this is the oldest building in the temple precinct: deep eaves on extended purlins, square columns and simple bracket sets.
Built in 1844 by a carpenter from Echigo, the main hall of this Soto Zen temple in southern Aizu keeps the tall proportions of late Edo work. Listed in 2001.
The Suzuzen Monookigura is a late Edo storehouse moved around 1938 to a lacquer wholesaler's site in Aizuwakamatsu to display goods. Registered in 2021.
The Taketo Zashikigura in Aizuwakamatsu is an 1823 earthen storehouse with a tatami parlor, low joist ceiling and shallow alcove, older than the merchant's arrival.
The Taketo Takegura in Aizuwakamatsu is a 1785 earthen storehouse moved in 1862 to hold a wholesaler's bamboo, with an igeta mark in plaster and sloping beams.
The Taketo Store in Aizuwakamatsu is an 1841 bamboo merchant's shop with an earthen floor, a raised counting room and lifting shutters, registered in 2019 and open.
The main building of Nakamuraya Ryokan in Iizaka, Fukushima, a late Edo storehouse-style inn of three storeys with a smaller top floor, stands out in the town.
The birthplace of bacteriologist Noguchi Hideyo by Lake Inawashiro, Fukushima, a thatched farmhouse of 1823 where he lived until 16, is open at his memorial museum.
The oldest of three Fujita buildings in Shirakawa, Fukushima, this late Edo storehouse was registered in 2024 and is now a gallery of the Fujita Memorial Museum.
A gable-entry sake storehouse on a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 2 storeys, 93 square metres. The family began brewing in 1790. Listed in 1998.
An 1861 thatched farmhouse of a village headman's family in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 246 square metres, low eaves, heavy lintels, once with a stable wing. Listed 1998.
A Bunsei-era storehouse on a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima: 2 storeys, 54 square metres, a raised okiyane roof and board-lined walls for valuables.
An 1861 roofed gate facing the road at a headman's estate in Minamiaizu, Fukushima, reached by a stone bridge older than the gate itself. Listed in 1998.
The Ichijoji Temple Main Hall in Kasai, Hyogo, an Important Cultural Property since 1983, is a stilted nine-bay hall of 1628 with a widened worship space.
In Itami near Osaka, the Former Okada Residence is a townhouse dated to 1674, rare for its century, fronting Japan's oldest sake brewery with a known build date.
Located in Tanigawa, Sannan-cho, Tamba City, Hyogo Prefecture, the Main Hall of Takakura Shrine was built in 1705 by local craftsmen and designated a national Important Cultural Property in 2018. One of the largest Edo-period shrine main halls in the Tamba region, it features a distinctive layered roof and exquisite polychrome carvings that reward unhurried exploration.
Jōonji, a Nichiren temple in Amagasaki's Teramachi quarter, holds two Important Cultural Properties: a 1623 Main Hall and the city's only tahōtō, a 1607 pagoda.
Rebuilt in 1626, Hiromine Shrine Worship Hall in Himeji stands eaves to eaves with the eleven-bay sanctuary. Its east bay was dropped and its sides left open.