Edo
江戸Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Main house of Masudaya, a sake brewer and pawnshop founded in 1795 in Nahari, Kochi: a 2-story late Edo merchant house with water-shedding tiles, registered in 2000.
Taku Seibyo in Taku, Saga: a Confucian temple completed in 1708 as the heart of a local academy, richly carved in Chinese style. Open after spring and autumn rites.
A thatched farmhouse of 1789 in the Chikushi mountains, dated by ink on a purlin joint. Saga's oldest securely dated dwelling, and the access you must check first.
The gate of Ioji in Karatsu, Saga, built in 1821 in front of the main hall, is a sturdy gabled gate with a cloud-patterned strut between its rear posts.
The main hall of Ioji in Karatsu, Saga, built in 1778, is a hip-and-gable hall with a six-room plan, a standard example of a Soto Zen temple hall of the Edo period.
The Ganshoji Temple Kihinshitsu Guest Hall in Saga, said to have received the domain lord, pairs a ten-mat study with a twenty-mat room, fine transoms and lacquer.
Rebuilt in 1768 on a 1696 stone base, the Ganshoji Temple Bell Tower in Saga is said to have rung the hours for the castle town. It still sounds on New Year's Eve.
Built in 1702, the Ganshoji Temple Main Hall in Saga is among Kyushu's largest and oldest Shin halls: plain eaves outside, carved transoms and a long beam within.
Koyanagi Sake Brewery Main House, Ogi, Saga: a late Edo plastered townhouse of 205 square metres, its front lean-to lost to road widening. Structure and access.
A late Edo storehouse moved out of Saga Castle to Honjo-machi, Saga City. Its board-clad base, lime-plastered walls and curved eave soffit survive; registered 2022.
Ichi-no-kura of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, is a late-Edo storehouse of 89 square metres whose rear once met the tidal Shiota River directly.
San-no-kura of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, served as bank premises from 1910 to 1916, and its brick street wall dates from that conversion.
The Main House of the Sugimitsu Porcelain Shop in Ureshino, Saga, is a late-Edo three-storey igura townhouse of 258 square metres, registered in September 1998.
Nonaka Usaien in Saga, a medicine merchant said to date from 1626, keeps a shop of 1796 whose great gable and hanging sign recall the old Nagasaki Road.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse of 291 square meters in Imari, built for grand village headmen, with a hooked kudo-zukuri ridge and a raised reception room.
A long late Edo mill building on the street side of the Maeda estate in Imari, altered in Meiji, whose two-story south end holds a gateway to the back yard.
A late Edo earthen storehouse in Imari opening off the raised room of the Maeda main house: a zashiki-gura with one door to the house and two to the yard.
Kitain in Kawagoe, Saitama: rebuilt after the 1638 fire with halls said to come from Edo Castle, it has six Important Cultural Property buildings, open to visit.
The Former Arai Family Residence in Nagatoro, Saitama, dates from about 1745 and keeps the only stone-weighted board roof in Chichibu. Designated 1971, open inside.
A large farmhouse of about 1859 in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City, registered in 2017. Lattice doors ring its altar room, said to be fitted against late-Edo riots.