Edo

A thatched farmhouse of about 1695, moved from Hirose to Mukaiyama Park in Esashi, Oshu. Its earthen-floored work area keeps an archaic double row of posts.

An L-shaped thatched farmhouse from Iwaizumi, rebuilt at Iwate Prefectural Museum. Its big stable wing shows how Nanbu farmers shared one roof with their horses.

Shohoji Temple in Oshu, Iwate: an 1811 main hall under one of Japan's largest thatched roofs, an 1807 kuri and a 1665 gate, with visiting hours, fees and access.

The Tamonin Isawa Family Residence in Kitakami, Iwate, is the thatched home of a village mountain ascetic, with a chapel-like dojo and its village shrine.

Tendaiji Temple in Ninohe, Iwate: an Important Cultural Property pair, the 1657 Niomon Gate and 1658 Main Hall, now re-roofed in cedar. Hours, fee and bus access.

The Hakusan Shrine Noh Stage at Chusonji, Hiraizumi, completed in 1853, is the only complete early modern Noh theater in eastern Japan. Its design and performances.

Shrine sanctuary of 1632 at Hidaka Shrine in Mizusawa, Oshu, a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with distinctive porch details, among the oldest shrine halls in Iwate.

A straight thatched farmhouse from Ide in Esashi, rebuilt at Iwate Prefectural Museum. Its roof is hip-and-gable at one end and plain hip at the other.

Former main hall of a horse-headed Kannon shrine in Shizukuishi, Iwate, from the Edo period and moved in 1914; full of votive pictures, it is called the Emado.

The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Sake Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo earthen brewhouse with a post-free hall, registered in 2019 and now used for film screenings.

The Former Azumaya Sake Brewery Pawn Storehouse in Miyako is a late-Edo plastered storehouse holding a pawn store and a strongroom side by side, registered in 2019.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Kiemon Residence is a straight-plan sugoya, not an L-shaped magariya, its late-Edo thatched roof echoing Nanbu farm life.

At Tono Furusato Village, the Former Kikuchi Sai Residence is an Edo-period magariya with chestnut posts and exposed-post plaster walls, a rare open lesson in carpentry.

A late Edo magariya of 380 sq m at Tono Furusato Village, the largest farmhouse there. Its three linked formal rooms mark the rank of a village headman.

The Sato Family Residence Harada Gate in Senmaya, Iwate, is a late Edo yakuimon of zelkova with cloud-carved kaerumata, said to come from a samurai retainer's house.

The storehouse of the Arakawa Family Residence in Takayama was built in 1747, forty-nine years before the main house. Both were designated in 1971. Free entry.

The Kosaka Family Residence in Mino, Gifu, is a working sake brewery dating to 1772 and the town's sole Important Cultural Property, with a convex roof and udatsu.

The Shinchokokuji Temple Guest Hall in Seki, Gifu, is an early Edo copper-roofed guest hall, designated in 1953, with a garden view of the pagoda. 300 yen, booking.

Village headman's farmhouse of 1809 moved to the Hida Folk Village in Takayama. Seven building ledgers survive, and it blends Hida and Mino styles. Open to visitors.

Nangu Shrine in Tarui, Gifu, is the first shrine of Mino. Fifteen halls rebuilt for Tokugawa Iemitsu in 1642 and three stone structures are designated.