Edo

The Ebiki Miso and Soy Sauce Brewing Storehouse in Toyoma, Tome City, Miyagi, is part of the historic compound of Ebiki Shoten, founded in 1833 and registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2018. Located in the heart of "Miyagi's Meiji Village," the complex preserves eight buildings spanning the late Edo to Taisho eras, where traditional miso and soy sauce fermentation continues to this day.

Turret gate of the late Edo period at Enmeiji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, said to be Shiroishi Castle's Umayaguchi Gate, moved around 1874; a rare castle relic.

Built between 1830 and 1868 in Kurihara, Miyagi, this thatched farmhouse keeps a regular four-room plan, with an alcove and sao-buchi ceiling in its formal room.

The Sairi Yashiki Shop Storehouse in Marumori, Miyagi, is an 1848 fireproof merchant storehouse with namako-kabe walls and plaster fire doors, now the reception.

Built between 1830 and 1867 in Kami Town, Miyagi, this farmhouse keeps its staggered four-room plan and massive kitchen beams. Registered in 2002; now a restaurant.

The main hall of Toshinji in Shiroishi, Miyagi, built in 1831 south-east of the castle town, has a typical Jodo-school plan and openwork carvings on its porch.

A two-story earthen-walled storehouse on the Matsuya property in Furukawa, Ōsaki. Late Edo in date, it is the site's oldest building, noted for its plasterwork.

A mid-Edo farmhouse in Ishinomori, Tome, Miyagi: nine bays long, hipped roof, a staggered four-room plan and bent beams over the earthen floor. Registered in 2006.

A large mid-19th-century hipped-roof farmhouse in Naruko Onsen, Miyagi, keeping the old local plan of a broad earthen floor with an indoor stable. Registered 1997.

Around the main shrine of Iwashimizu Hachimangu stand eight designated buildings: branch-shrine halls and outer gates of the 1630s, and the Toganoo hall of 1601.

In Kamigyo Ward, Kyoto, the Urasenke Residence gathers the tea rooms Konnichian, Yuin and Kanuntei into one designated structure, rebuilt after the 1788 Tenmei fire.

Built around 1646 at the top of the Sennyuji valley in Kyoto, Unryuin's main hall borrows the plan of a Zen abbot's quarters and still works as a sutra-copying room.

The tea house Furuta Oribe left the Yabunouchi family burned in 1864. A school rule sent the oldest exact copy to replace it, and that copy is the En-an seen today.

Dismantled in 1969 and rebuilt in Ayabe, this thatched mid-Edo farmhouse is cited as the oldest gable-entry Settan-type house, and now serves as a tea house.

Kamigamo Shrine (Kamo Wake Ikazuchi Jinja), founded in 677 CE in northern Kyoto, is one of the city's most ancient sanctuaries. Home to two National Treasure halls and 41 Important Cultural Properties, its entire precinct is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discover its iconic nagare-zukuri architecture, mystical sand cones, and the legendary Aoi Matsuri — over a millennium of living spiritual heritage.

Kajūji's shoin in Yamashina, Kyoto, an Important Cultural Property, was rebuilt from a late-17th-century imperial residence and is noted for its Kajūji-dana shelves.

Tō-ji's 17th-century initiation hall and its two Kamakura gates. Site of the January Goshichinichi Mishiho rite; the North Gate opens only on April 21 each year.

At 54.8 meters, Tō-ji's fifth pagoda, finished in 1644, is Japan's tallest wooden tower. Its wayō design, painted first story and 2026 opening dates explained.

The main hall of Gyokurin-in, a sub-temple of Daitokuji in Kyoto, built in 1621, is a large eight-room abbot's hall with paintings by the Kano Tan'yu school.

Two thatched tea houses at Kodaiji, Kyoto: the single-storey, pyramid-roofed Karakasa-tei and the two-storey Shigure-tei, designated together in 1936.