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Choboji Temple Vault
Aichi 江戸
Choboji Temple Vault

Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.

Choboji Temple Gate
Aichi 江戸
Choboji Temple Gate

Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.

Chiryu Shrine Main Hall
Aichi 江戸
Chiryu Shrine Main Hall

The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.

Tokujuji Temple Main Gate
Aichi 江戸
Tokujuji Temple Main Gate

Tokujuji Temple Main Gate in Inuyama, Aichi, is an early Edo yakuimon with red-painted timbers. City records place the southern limit of the castle town right here.

Tomita Family Residence Mokunansha
Aichi 江戸
Tomita Family Residence Mokunansha

Built in 1827 for the deputy of the Motojuku jin'ya in Okazaki, Aichi, Mokunansha works samurai timbers into a farmhouse plan. Registered in 2020, now a restaurant.

Nakamura Family Residence Main House
Aichi 江戸
Nakamura Family Residence Main House

An 1843 farmhouse on the old Ina Kaido in Toyokawa, with a low tsushi attic, a pantiled gable roof and a sunken mulberry pit. Registered in 2022 and privately owned.

Narumi Tegashi Shrine Benten Hall
Aichi 江戸
Narumi Tegashi Shrine Benten Hall

A Buddhist hall of 1865 beside a spring-fed pond in Inuyama, Aichi, registered in 2024. The oldest building here, with a pyramidal roof and a painted ceiling.

Nyoiji Sanmon Gate
Aichi 江戸
Nyoiji Sanmon Gate

Nyoiji's 1826 four-legged gate in rural Toyota faces the main hall. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, its bracketing and frog-leg struts are pure late Edo.

Nyoiji Shoin
Aichi 江戸
Nyoiji Shoin

Nyoiji Shoin in Toyota City, Aichi, began in the late Edo period as a temporary worship hall, later refashioned into a reception room with a raised upper floor.

Nyoiji Temple Bell Tower
Aichi 江戸
Nyoiji Temple Bell Tower

A small Edo-period bell tower at a Pure Land temple east of Toyota, Nyoiji Shoro was built around 1755 and registered in 2013, with a fine mirror ceiling inside.

Nyoiji Drum Tower
Aichi 江戸
Nyoiji Drum Tower

At Nyoiji, a Pure Land temple in Toyota, Aichi, a drum turret rises from a low hall with a drum hung inside, registered as a late-Edo cultural property in 2013.

Nyoiji Main Hall
Aichi 江戸
Nyoiji Main Hall

The Main Hall of Nyoi-ji Temple in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, is a grand Jōdo Shinshū worship hall built around 1823. With its seven-bay facade, hip-and-gable tiled roof, ornate double rainbow beam gable decoration, and raised coffered ceiling in the inner sanctuary, it represents the fully matured form of Shin Buddhist temple architecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.

Haneda Hachimangu Storehouse (former Haneda Hachimangu Library)
Aichi 江戸
Haneda Hachimangu Storehouse (former Haneda Hachimangu Library)

A modest 1848 storehouse in Toyohashi holding the Hada Hachimangu Bunko, an Edo-era library that lent books to the public and prefigured Japan's public libraries.

Hada Hachimangu Shrine Office Annex (Former Hadano Family Residence Main House)
Aichi 江戸
Hada Hachimangu Shrine Office Annex (Former Hadano Family Residence Main House)

The Hada Hachimangu Shrine Office Annex in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a mid-Edo house moved twice, in 1812 and again by the 1920s, and registered in 2000 for its design.

Hada Hachimangu Gate (Former Hada Hachimangu Library Main Gate)
Aichi 江戸
Hada Hachimangu Gate (Former Hada Hachimangu Library Main Gate)

Hada Hachimangu Gate, on a shrine approach in Toyohashi, Aichi, is a plain bracket gate of 1848 about 3 meters wide, marking where a noted library once stood.

Hassho Shrine Worship Hall
Aichi 江戸
Hassho Shrine Worship Hall

Hassho Shrine Worship Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is an 1826 hip-and-gable haiden of 24 square meters, standing inside the precinct of Zaikaji, a Shingon temple.

Hassho Shrine Main Hall
Aichi 江戸
Hassho Shrine Main Hall

Hassho Shrine Main Hall in Toyokawa, Aichi, is a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1724. Just 0.8 square meters, it carries full-scale gable carpentry.

Banjo Brewery Inner Well
Aichi 江戸
Banjo Brewery Inner Well

The Banjo Brewery Inner Well in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a pair of late Edo stone shafts 2.5 meters across and about 8 meters deep, registered in July 2007.

Banjo Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse and Barrel Repair Shop
Aichi 江戸
Banjo Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse and Barrel Repair Shop

The Banjo Brewery Former Brewing Storehouse and Barrel Repair Shop in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo storehouse of 108 square meters, registered in 2007.

Banjo Brewery Middle Storehouse
Aichi 江戸
Banjo Brewery Middle Storehouse

The Banjo Brewery Middle Storehouse in Otakacho, Nagoya, is a late Edo fermentation hall of 343 square meters, oldest of the three halls, registered in 2007.