Edo
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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 in Inuyama, Aichi, is an early Edo yakuimon with red-painted timbers. City records place the southern limit of the castle town right here.
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.
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.
The 1865 Benten hall on a spring-fed pond at Narumi Tegashi Shrine in Inuyama, Aichi, the oldest building there, with painted ceiling panels. Registered property.
The gate of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, a four-legged gate of the late Edo period, faces the main hall with round posts, panelled doors and a fine coffered ceiling.
The shoin of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, from the late Edo period, is said to have been a temporary hall while the main hall was built, and keeps three rooms in a row.
The bell tower of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, built in about 1755 on a stone base, has inward-leaning posts and a diamond-framed panel ceiling ringed with coffering.
The drum tower of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, from the late Edo period, carries a crosswise drum turret on its roof, with a tea room and store inside below.
The main hall of Nyoiji in Toyota, Aichi, built in about 1823, is a seven-bay Shin Buddhist hall with a wide porch and a raised coffered ceiling over its sanctuary.
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.
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, 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 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 in Toyokawa, Aichi, is a one-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary of 1724. Just 0.8 square meters, it carries full-scale gable carpentry.
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.
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.
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.
Raised in 1852, the Juo-do at Fumonji is a small hall to the Ten Kings who judge the dead. Registered in 2025, it was listed for its part in the historic landscape.
Built in 1707, the Fumonji Shoromon holds its temple bell inside a two-story gate, a form rare in East Mikawa. It still sounds its year-end bell by daylight.