Edo

The Yamani Tsunashima Shoten Store in central Kisarazu is a late Edo shop of two plastered storehouse blocks set front to back, their ridges at different heights.

The Ino Tadataka Related Materials gather 2,345 items, from 123 finished Ino maps and 399 drafts to 63 instruments, showing how Japan's first measured map was made.

407 manuscripts, records, diaries, letters and belongings of Ohara Yugaku, the Edo-period farm reformer behind an early cooperative, shown at his museum in Asahi.

A pair of Yuan-dynasty folding screens of the sixteen arhats, attributed to Zhao of Ningbo and owned by Hokekyoji in Ichikawa; kept at the Tokyo National Museum.

A 17th-century ink painting by Iwasa Matabei: Rōgyoku summons a phoenix with her flute. A panel of the dispersed Kanaya screen, an Important Cultural Property.

Osaka Castle's 13 designated buildings, from the 1620 Sengan and Inui turrets to the granite gunpowder magazine and Tamon Turret, with 2026 opening dates and prices.

Osaka's Former Ogata Kōan Residence, known as Tekijuku, is Japan's only surviving Dutch studies academy. Designated in 1964, it is open daily except Mondays.

On the old Kishū highway in Izumisano, the Oku Family Residence preserves a 1727 main house, a long gatehouse and storehouses. Designated 1969; no regular opening.

The shoin of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, built in 1647, is the reception hall of the main residence, a hip-and-gable building of the early Edo period.

Gansenji in Kaizuka, Osaka, governed a self-ruling temple town and briefly headed Honganji. Its main hall, gate, and drum tower are Important Cultural Properties.

Kumata Shrine's First Hall in Osaka was built in 1690 for Kasuga Taisha in Nara and moved here in 1711, a single-bay kasuga-zukuri Important Cultural Property.

Six buildings of 1623 at Shitennoji Temple in Osaka survived the 1945 air raids and were designated together in 1954 as the only early Edo fabric on the grounds.

The former Sugiyama house in Tondabayashi, Osaka, home of a founding family later famous for sake, is the oldest townhouse of the temple town, early Edo in date.

The main hall of Daianji in Sakai, Osaka, a shoin-style building of the early Edo period rebuilt here in 1683, keeps Kano school wall paintings in its rooms.

An early Edo farmhouse in Kumatori, south Osaka, with one of the largest earthen-floored work spaces in the Kinki region. Designated in 1964, it is free to enter.

Maniin, a sub-temple of Kongo-ji in Kawachi-Nagano, Osaka, housed Emperor Go-Murakami from 1354. Its shoin was listed in 1965, its gate and walls in 2019.

Minase Shrine Tea House in Shimamoto, Osaka, an early Edo tea room called Toshinseki, fills each ceiling coffer with a lamp-wick plant. Open by reservation.

The Asano Family Residence Inui Storehouse is a late Edo storehouse in the northwest corner of the Asano estate in Yao, Osaka, with white plaster walls and tiling.

The Asano Family Residence Main House in Yao, Osaka, is a late Edo townhouse whose lattice front and mushiko-mado survive over a farmhouse plan. Registered 2004.

This tiny hall at Abe Oji Shrine in Osaka, from the late Edo period (1751 to 1830) and once the Otokoyama Hachiman main hall, is painted red with bright details.