Edo

Discover Taishoen, a rare Edo-period botanical garden in Numazu, Shizuoka. This National Registered Monument was praised by Siebold and visited by shoguns, feudal lords, and imperial family members for over 400 years.

Discover the Kaise Family Residence in Nishiura Kōchi, Numazu — a late Edo-period farmhouse that is the city's oldest surviving home, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2023, where the Tennō Festival's kagura still echoes in its formal rooms.

The Mishima Koyomishi no Yakata in Mishima, Shizuoka is a museum housed in the former residence of the Kawai family, who produced the Mishima Calendar—Japan's oldest printed kana-script calendar—for fifty generations. The building, a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property reconstructed from a checkpoint station after the 1854 Ansei Earthquake, features exhibits of woodblock plates and calendar artifacts, plus a free hands-on printing experience.

Korin's Red and White Plum Blossoms, a National Treasure at MOA Museum of Art in Atami, sets red and white plums on gold leaf around a blackened silver stream.

Built in 1709 beside the Daishōji River, Chōryūtei is a small sukiya pavilion and Important Cultural Property prized for its carved transoms and shingled roof.

Built in 1643 by a Kaga lord for his great-grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, this vermilion shrine in Kanazawa is the earliest surviving Tōshō-gū with separated halls.

Built in 1702 at Daijoji, a Soto Zen monastery near Kanazawa, this hall blends the Zen, Japanese, and Obaku styles. An Important Cultural Property since 1983.

Discover the Tokikuni Family Residence (Shimo-Tokikuni-ke), an Important Cultural Property in Wajima, Ishikawa. This grand 18th-century thatched-roof farmhouse traces its origins to the exiled Taira clan and showcases the prosperity of Noto Peninsula's rural elite.

The Sutra Repository (Kyōdō) at Myojoji Temple in Hakui, Ishikawa Prefecture, is an Important Cultural Property built in 1670 to fulfill the dying wish of Maeda Mitsutaka, fourth lord of the Kaga domain. This elegant Zen-style building houses the Tenkai Edition Buddhist Canon and the oldest Lotus Sutra woodblocks in Hokuriku, completing the five-generation Maeda building legacy at this premier Nichiren Buddhist temple.

The Kuri of Myojoji Temple in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is the oldest surviving building on the temple grounds, constructed during the Bunroku era (1592–1596) by local Noto carpenters. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1965, it predates the Maeda family's patronage of the temple by about twenty years. Its regional column spacing, sunken hearth, and stone-lined cellar offer a refreshingly humble counterpoint to the temple's celebrated Momoyama-period architecture.

The Myojoji Temple Five-Storied Pagoda in Hakui, Ishikawa is the only wooden five-story pagoda in the Hokuriku region. Completed in 1618 by order of Maeda Toshitsune of the Kaga Domain, this Important Cultural Property stands 34.18 meters tall with a rare wooden-shingle roof, blending Momoyama splendour with early Edo refinement.

Set within the forested compound of Myōjō-ji, the Nichiren head temple of Hokuriku in Hakui, Ishikawa, this elegant early-Edo Shoin was built in 1659 as a retreat for Maeda Tsunanori, the fifth lord of Kaga. A single-story hipped-roof hall with wooden shingles, it contains a spirit chamber for the lord's ancestors, a tsukeshoin alcove lit by a bell-shaped window, and views out to a celebrated garden framed by the only surviving wooden five-story pagoda in the region. A nationally designated Important Cultural Property and a quiet gem of the Noto Peninsula.

Discover Myojoji Temple Bell Tower in Hakui, Ishikawa—a nationally designated Important Cultural Property built in 1625 with graceful hakama-goshi skirting, octagonal lower columns, and elegant three-tiered brackets, set within one of Hokuriku's finest Nichiren temple complexes.

The Niōmon of Myōjōji in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture, is a nationally designated Important Cultural Property gate built in 1625 under the patronage of the Maeda clan of the Kaga Domain. This stately three-bay tower gate in the traditional Japanese architectural style serves as the ceremonial entrance to one of the Hokuriku region's most distinguished temples, home to ten Important Cultural Properties spanning nearly four centuries of history.

The Asanaga Family Residence, a registered late-Edo farmhouse on the edge of old Kanazawa, keeps its earthen work floor and heavy timber frame. A private home.

On the edge of old Kanazawa near the Asano River, this late-Edo storehouse pairs a stone-look plastered base with white-plaster upper walls and a floating roof.

North of Kanazawa Castle, the Izumi Residence is the rare late-Edo home of a lower-ranking samurai, its plaster-and-timber gable facade registered in 2004.

A two-story earthen storehouse built in late-Edo Kanazawa for a middle-rank samurai family. Plain but finely made, it was registered as a cultural property in 2004.

Shokoji's bell tower in Hakusan keeps a mid-Edo frame, the oldest at the temple, an open single-bay tower on a high Tomuro-stone plinth, relocated in 1976 and registered.

Located in the Kikugawa neighborhood of Kanazawa, the Hiraki Family Residence Main House is a late Edo-period samurai dwelling built in the former ashigaru (foot soldier) district of the Kaga Domain's castle town. This two-story wooden structure of approximately 102 square meters features a southern garden, western street frontage, and an eastern irrigation canal, preserving the distinctive layout of Kanazawa's warrior-class housing. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2004, it stands as a rare surviving example of how Japan's wealthiest feudal domain housed even its lowest-ranking samurai in detached homes with gardens.