Edo

The Main Hall of Kagaku-ji Temple in Nishio City, Aichi Prefecture, is a Rinzai Zen hōjō-style hall reconstructed in 1684 with funds from the family of Kira Yoshinaka — the historical figure at the center of Japan's legendary Forty-Seven Rōnin tale. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this remarkably preserved structure retains most of its original 17th-century timber. Discover the Kira clan's legacy, imperial treasures, and the rich historical landscape of the Kira district.

At Kakuo-ji, a Rinzai temple in Fuso, Aichi, the 1840 kuri is a Registered Cultural Property: a 24-meter temple kitchen with a roof smoke vent and a decorated gable.

Kakuo-ji Dainichido in Fuso, Aichi is a small 1794 worship hall, one of five registered buildings that together preserve an intact Edo-period Zen temple precinct.

A thatched late-Edo farmhouse south of Nagoya Station, built by the local yotsudate method, its garden pine said to model the old pine on the Nagoya Noh stage.

The Kozenji Kuri in Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1830 on the ruins of a medieval castle. This Edo-period kitchen hall of a Rinzai Zen temple founded by the samurai Kajiwara Kagetoki features exquisite traditional timber craftsmanship including rainbow beams and a distinctive smoke-vent dormer. Located near National Treasure Inuyama Castle, it offers a serene glimpse into centuries of warrior heritage and Zen monastic life.

Discover the Kokonoe Mirin Okura, a registered tangible cultural property in Hekinan, Aichi. Built in 1706 and relocated in 1787, this historic warehouse is the symbol of Japan's oldest mirin brewery with over 300 years of history.

A small late-Edo tea pavilion in a 400-year-old sake brewer's compound in Inuyama, its red bengara walls a registered piece of the old castle-town streetscape.

Zaikaji Temple Main Hall, a registered Edo-period hall on a mountainside in Aichi, was rebuilt in 1823 by carpenter Okada Gozaemon and shelters a hidden Kannon.

In Toyokawa, Aichi, Zaikaji's Monju-do is a registered 1859 timber hall by carpenter Okada Gozaemon, housing a hidden Manjushri and a working goma fire altar.

Built in 1835, Saishin-ji Main Hall in Anjo, Aichi, is a Jodo Shinshu temple hall with wave-cut gable pendants, registered in 2022 as the work of local carpenters.

The kuri at Sairenji in Inuyama is a late-Edo priest's residence and kitchen wing, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in the town below Inuyama Castle.

Below Inuyama Castle stands Sairen-ji's gate, a late-Edo yakuimon registered in 2007 for its place in the historic castle-town streetscape and its carved detail.

The 1760 main hall of Sairenji, a Pure Land temple in Inuyama's temple town, is a five-bay, hip-and-gable hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

On Ama City's old Kamakura Road stands the four-legged Zen-style gate of a Nichiren temple. Registered in 2005, this mid-Edo gate survived the 1891 Nobi earthquake.

Once a Shingon fire-ritual hall, now a Nichiren temple near Nagoya, this registered wooden hall keeps an old Nichiren-hall plan under a pyramidal tiled roof.

At Jissō-ji, a Rinzai temple in Nishio, Aichi, the kuri was kitchen and living hall. Rebuilt in the Genroku era, it frames a beam-spanned room over an earthen floor.

Jissō-ji's hōjō in Nishio is a large early-Edo Zen abbot's hall at the Kira family temple. Restored with a copper roof, it is now a Nishio City cultural property.

Standing at the entrance of Jakkō-in Temple on Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi, this elegant single-bay yakuimon-style gate was built in 1836 by Takenaka Izumi Masatoshi, an official master carpenter of the Owari domain. Adorned with a charming group-of-monkeys carving, dragon reliefs, and peony wing-supports, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005. Set within Owari's celebrated 'Maple Temple,' the gate offers visitors a vivid encounter with late-Edo temple architecture.

Standing on the slopes of Mount Tsugao in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, the Zuigudō of Jakkō-in is an elegant Edo-period prayer hall built in 1805. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, it preserves the rare features of a kagodō — a hall for sustained devotional practice — with residence-style shitomido shutters and a veranda wrapping all four sides. Dedicated to Daizuigu Bosatsu, the deity who responds to wishes, the hall sits within Owari's celebrated maple temple landscape.

Tucked into the mountainside grounds of Jakkō-in—the famed Maple Temple of Owari in Inuyama, Aichi—this miniature Bentendō is a hexagonal wooden hall built around 1820, with a footprint of just three square meters. Enshrining a Benzaiten venerated for forging bonds of love and good fortune, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2005 and stands as a rare and beautifully crafted small-scale hall of late-Edo religious architecture.