Edo

Ikinariya's main building, in a Niigata ryotei founded around 1700, is a late-Edo two-story wooden hall with an L-shaped doma, one of ten structures registered in 2000.

Built in 1867 in the mountain hamlet of Wakatochi in Ojiya City, Niigata, this chūmon-zukuri farmhouse exemplifies the architectural wisdom of Japan's snow country. Featuring elegant reception rooms with tokonoma alcoves and shoin-style details, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2016. Now operating as a farmhouse inn, it offers authentic country cuisine, seasonal farm experiences, and a moving story of community revival after the 2004 Chuetsu Earthquake.

Discover the Former Iida Family Residence in Jōetsu, Niigata — an 1853 Edo-period thatched-roof farmhouse registered as a Tangible Cultural Property. Featuring the distinctive chūmon-zukuri style of the Echigo region and massive timber framing built to endure heavy snowfall, this architectural treasure offers a rare glimpse into rural life in Japan's snow country.

A late Edo storehouse said to have been moved to Sekiya around 1845. Its placed roof sits free above plastered walls, a fire defence. Registered in 2000. Not open.

Dairinji's sutra repository of 1857 is a small plastered storehouse. Its canopy beam is carved with grapes and a squirrel, and cloud-and-dragon work rings the altar.

Dairinji's Sanmon of 1863 is a doorless bell-tower gate dense with carving. Its upper storey holds a bell attributed to Living Treasure Katori Masahiko.

Dairinji's outer gate of about 1852 is a four-legged gate on the old Yonezawa road, its round and square pillars rising from a stone platform on the central axis.

In the northeast of the grounds, this late-Edo farmhouse moved from Kashiwazaki, with a thatched three-room plan and earthen floors, is the oldest here.

The Main Hall of Honkō-ji Temple in Sawane Kagomachi, Sado City, Niigata Prefecture, is a late Edo-period Jōdo Shinshū Buddhist hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2008. Preserving a standard True Pure Land temple layout with refined bracket complexes and carved transoms, it stands as a testament to the craftsmanship that flourished on Sado Island during the gold mining era.

The Dokkodo at Rengebuji on Sado Island is a small stone shrine beside a valley spring. A block carries a 1622 date, and carved demon faces finish its three-bay ridge.

The Niomon at Rengebuji on Sado Island is an east-facing eight-legged gate of 1822, with round columns and twelve stone plinths inscribed with donors' names.

The Hakkakudo at Rengebuji on Sado Island is a mid-Edo octagonal hall roofed in copper, its carved brackets and eaves composed to read as a dragon amid clouds.

The Hassodo at Rengebuji on Sado Island honors the eight Shingon patriarchs, with rare five-step brackets and a thatch-form copper roof over a painted interior frame.

The Mitsugondo at Rengebuji on Sado Island, the sixth station of the island's Shikoku pilgrimage, is a small hall said to date to 1844 with carved interior supports.

The Mumyobashi at Rengebuji on Sado Island is an arched stone bridge to the inner sanctuary, its thirty-six slabs each carved with a Sanskrit syllable beneath.

Discover the Inari Shrine Mikoshigura in Niigata's Kita Ward, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the late Edo period featuring a distinctive shrine-like gable design and painted coffered ceiling with floral and bird motifs.

Inside Sado's Edo magistrate's office sat a refinery. Its 928 excavated items—172 lead plates weighing seven tons, ore mortars, ceramics—reveal how a World Heritage gold mine truly ran.

Built around 1646 in Kyoto by Ichijo Ekan, a son of Emperor Go-Yozei, this thatched imperial tea villa was moved to Kamakura with its garden stones in 1959.

The Former Ito Family House, a headman's farmhouse of around 1700 floored in split bamboo, stands in Kawasaki's open-air folk museum, which its rescue founded.

Yugyo-ji's stone and mud walls turn at right angles from the main gate to enclose the forecourt. Its coursed andesite stone wall, about 1.9 metres high, is late Edo work.