Edo

Choganji Temple Main Hall in Shibata, Niigata, built in 1750, follows the Shin plan but encloses its veranda and adds a rear passage, robing room and side room.

Listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Inner Gate is a single-bay gate 2.8 metres across whose head tie projects in front of the posts to carry the beam on a bracket set.

Listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Inner Sanctuary is a hall three bays square under a copper pyramidal roof, standing where the temple path finally ends.

Dated 1691 and listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Kannon Hall is a five-bay esoteric hall where column shapes and a Sanskrit ceiling mark the sacred core.

Built in 1799 and listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Sutra Repository is a 24 square metre store holding a hexagonal revolving bookcase with Fu Daishi inside it.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Priests' Quarters is a two-storey thatched block of 366 square metres whose heavy frame stands beside the Main Hall it serves.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Rice Storehouse is the longest of the four stores here, 8.2 metres of plastered and boarded wall facing its twin across the path.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Bell Tower stacks two storeys on 7.4 square metres. A tablet of 1876 records its move, and a dragon is carved into the bracketing.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Office is a 19-metre timber range of 1857 that began as a byre and a barn, with thatching reed stored in its roof space.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Nakanokura Storehouse is a two-storey boarded store of 30 square metres whose date rests on a precinct drawing made in 1800.

Built in 1718 and listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Nio Gate is an eight-legged gate whose Zen-style bracketing was the work of carpenters from Sado itself.

Listed in 2009, Chokokuji Temple Treasure Storehouse is a square two-storey plastered store of the mid Edo period, raised on high stone walling beside the stairway.

Built in 1777 and listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Main Hall is a thatched hall 21 metres long whose asymmetrical six-room plan was enlarged for a congregation.

Listed in 2008, Chokokuji Temple Miso Storehouse is a 13 square metre single-storey store with an earth floor, dated either to the late Edo period or earlier.

Chotokuji Temple Main Gate and Wall in Shibata, Niigata, is an 1841 four-legged gate with wicket doors, a 16-meter wall and curved late-Edo supporting posts.

Chotokuji Temple Main Hall in Shibata, Niigata, built in 1850, keeps plain sides but a carved front with dragon tail rafters and a coffered ceiling. Registered 2017.

Chofukuji Temple Main Gate in Nagaoka, Niigata, dated to 1774 by its ridge tablet, is a sturdy four-legged gate with copper roof, double rafters and folding walls.

Chofukuji Temple Main Hall in Nagaoka, Niigata, was built in 1855 by local carpenter Takagi Jinbei Mototsuna: a seven-by-six-bay Shin hall with a broad outer hall.

Nakahara Family Residence Main House in Akatsuka, Niigata: an 1860 headman's home with bracketed eaves where Emperor Meiji lunched in 1878. Open spring and fall.

The Hirata Dairoku Family Residence Sake Brewery in Sekikawa, Niigata, dates from 1845 with an early Meiji extension; the family brewed and stored its sake here.