Edo

A National Historic Site since 2020, the Nagahara and Iba Goten in Shiga are remains of palaces used exclusively by the Tokugawa shoguns on the road to Kyoto.

A 1967 outbuilding at the Akada house in Nagahama, Shiga, with weatherboard and sheet-iron walls, forming the estate's street front beside its thatched gate.

Anyoin Temple Jizo Hall, a pyramid-roofed hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu dated to the late Edo period by weathering, has an ornate carved transom in front.

Anyoin Temple Shoten Hall, the oldest hall at a Saikyoji sub-temple in Otsu, joins an earthen-walled late-Edo sanctuary under a pyramid roof to a worship room.

Enjuin Temple Main Hall in Higashiomi, Shiga: a small Jodo Buddhist hall of 1711, 3 bays by 4, built with stout timbers and carved transoms between its sanctuaries.

Oku-Ibuki Hometown Folklore Museum in Maibara, Shiga: a thatched late Edo farmhouse that escaped the fire of 1836, where Noh is said to have been staged.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Kannon Hall, built in 1766, is the main hall of Mangetsu-ji in Otsu, a small hip-and-gable hall with a diagonal tile floor beside Lake Biwa.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Guest Hall, built in 1754 by local carpenter Kichibei, faces Lake Biwa in Otsu and keeps a four-room plan with rooms looking onto the lake.

Kaimonzan Mangetsuji Main Gate, built in 1812 in Otsu, is a white-skirted two-storey gate whose doorless opening frames the Ukimido hall out on Lake Biwa.

Late Edo earthen storehouse beside the Nunoso cloth shop on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with a separately framed roof and carved strut ends. Registered in 2013.

Largest and tallest of three late Edo storehouses on the Nunoso cloth merchant's lot in Hikone, Shiga, with a thick plaster band under its eaves. Registered 2013.

Late Edo townhouse of the Nunoso hemp-cloth merchant on the Nakasendo in Hikone, Shiga, with curved eave brackets and wide upper lattice windows. Registered in 2013.

Smallest of three late Edo storehouses behind the Nunoso cloth shop in Takamiya, Hikone, Shiga, its plastered eaves still showing each purlin end. Registered 2013.

Above the main hall of Kawaraya-ji in Shiga, this small 1700 founder's hall honours the monk who revived the temple and shows the Zen style at close range.

Built in 1725, this sutra hall at Kawaraya-ji holds an octagonal revolving scripture case and bold shrimp-beam framing. It is the one building listed for design merit.

Linked to the main hall by a covered corridor, this mid-1640s hall at Kawaraya-ji is thought to be its former main hall, marked by the raigō pillars still at its altar.

Before the main hall, this mid-1640s bell tower at Kawaraya-ji rises on sixteen-faceted posts splayed outward for strength. Hanging its bell marked the temple's revival.

The smallest of Kawaraya-ji's seven listed buildings, this 1818 hall of barely three square metres packs full Zen detail around Binzuru, the arhat rubbed for healing.

The oldest of the Ishibashi compound's 11 buildings: a low late Edo townhouse with a tsushi-nikai half storey, a mushiko window and a firewall wing. Registered 2013.

A freestanding late Edo rice storehouse behind the main house in Taga, Shiga, 7.4 by 3.8 meters, with white sheet-iron walls, a plank skirt and a canopied west door.