Edo

Late-Edo townhouse of Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery, moved here in 1904, with deep eaves, a bracketed pent roof, varied lattices and an open-beamed doma.

An 1864 clay storehouse closing the south end of the Hourai brewery's row on the Seto River in Hida Furukawa, with a king-beam roof frame and boarded east skirt.

Built in 1804, the oldest of six registered buildings at Hida Furukawa's Hourai sake brewery: a clay storehouse on the Seto River with heavy doors and okiyane roof.

Gifu's Nagataki Hakusan Shrine holds 27 wooden masks from late Kamakura to late Edo — Okina, Sanbasō, kishin and rare hanataka faces of Hakusan worship.

The Akagi Family Residence in Tsuno, Miyazaki, is an 1844 merchant house that also lodged daimyo as a honjin. See its guest rooms, storehouse and stone-based barn.

Takachiho Shrine's 1778 main hall in highland Miyazaki is a grand five-bay nagare-zukuri in plain zelkova, carved with dragons, a phoenix, and a local hero's legend.

Shiiba's Nasu Family Residence, an 1823 Important Cultural Property, is 25 meters long yet one room deep, and known as Tsurutomi Yashiki after a Genpei-era legend.

Dated to 1787 by a carved post inscription, this is Miyazaki's oldest documented farmhouse: no doma, just two board-floored rooms in an archaic mountain plan.

The main hall of Mikado Shrine in Misato, Miyazaki, at the eastern foot of the Kyushu Mountains, is a seven-bay nagare-style hall of 1661, dated by its ridge tags.

The Aitai Bridge of 1729 in Ebino, Miyazaki, a single stone arch, carries a water channel and the old road to Hitoyoshi side by side on a double ring of stones.

The Watanabe Family Residence Main House in Aburatsu, Nichinan, is a late-Edo merchant house registered in 2006, with lattice windows along its 9-bay street front.

The Agatsuma Family Residence in Zao, Miyagi, is a 1753 thatched farmstead with three storehouses, protected with its gate and lot and open on third Sundays.

Thatched farmhouse of the later Edo period in the grounds of Kozoji, Kakuda, Miyagi, with a three-room plan, a large earth floor and thick posts; free to visit.

Perched on Ichimoriyama overlooking Matsushima Bay in Miyagi Prefecture, Shiogama Shrine has been revered as the first-ranked shrine of ancient Mutsu Province for over a thousand years. Begun in 1695 by the fourth Sendai lord Date Tsunamura and completed in 1704 under his successor Date Yoshimura, fourteen halls and a stone torii were designated Important Cultural Properties in 2002. The shrine is celebrated for its rare layout enshrining three deities in three sanctuaries and for the masterful contrast between its restrained main halls and ornate gates—an outstanding example of mid-Edo shrine architecture.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse designated an Important Cultural Property in 1974, the Former Nakazawa Residence in Natori keeps the local four-room plan.

Horaguchi Family Residence in Natori, Miyagi: a Horeki-era farmhouse ringed by a ditch and igune windbreak, designated in 1971, with named posts in its earth floor.

The Matsumoto Family Residence in Kami, Miyagi, housed retainers to the Date lords' vassals. Its living and kitchen blocks stand apart beneath one thatched roof.

Enunkan Garden, named a national Place of Scenic Beauty in 2018, is a 17th-century stroll garden above Kesennuma Bay kept by the Ayukai family of the Sendai Domain.

The Ebiki Former Sake Brewery, a late Edo store in Toyoma, Miyagi, made sake until 1908. As the Kura no Shiryokan it shows triple beams and a shrine on guided tours.

The Ebiki Archive Storehouse is a small late Edo store in Toyoma, Miyagi, with tile joints that change by floor and window brackets set with pierced openwork boards.