Edo

The 1810 kitchen and study hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a 702-square-metre building with great grid beams and a courtyard. Registered property.

The 1794 four-legged gate of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, built entirely of zelkova by Tatekawa-school carpenters and decorated with carving. Registered property.

The 1722 monks' hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, linked to the meditation hall and forming the west side of the monastery. Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The 1722 meditation hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, whose side bays once served as meditation platforms; probably thatched at first. Registered property.

The 1697 main hall of Eijuji in Shinshiro, Aichi, a hip-and-gable Soto Zen hall whose front veranda once served as a passage linking the monastery. Registered.

The Kuri (priests' quarters) of Enmyō-ji in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, is an unusual structure that began life as a merchant townhouse in the late Edo-period castle town and was relocated and reassembled within the temple precinct in the mid-Meiji period. With a gabled pantile roof and a footprint of about 314 square meters, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2012. As a rare surviving example of a castle-town machiya repurposed as a temple residence, it pairs naturally with a walk through Inuyama's preserved old town and a visit to nearby Inuyama Castle.

Standing in Inuyama's historic temple district just minutes from the National Treasure castle, the Enmyo-ji Belfry is a three-meter-square open-sided bell tower built between 1661 and 1751. Its Zen-style structural body, densely packed two-stepped brackets, jar-strut gable decoration, and deeply curved eaves earned it Registered Tangible Cultural Property status in 2012. Discover a hidden architectural gem set within a temple famous for its 300-year-old weeping cherry tree.

Discover Enmyoji Temple's Main Hall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Inuyama, Aichi. Built in the early Edo period and renovated in 1689, this Jodo Shinshu sanctuary preserves rare architectural features and stands beside a magnificent 300-year-old weeping cherry tree.

A four-and-a-half-mat tea room of 1826 hidden behind a house in Inuyama, Aichi. Woven ceiling over the host, boarded over guests. Registered in 2013, open yearly.

Ome Shrine sits on a wooded hill in Seto City's Akazu district, listed in Japan's tenth-century shrine register and home to a Main Hall built in 1805 by local master carpenters. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in March 2024, this elegant sanken-sha nagare-zukuri sanctuary stands beside a seventh-century burial mound in the heart of Akazu—one of Japan's six ancient pottery centers.

A late-Edo grain store in Inuyama facing the inner gate across the compound. Five and a half ken long and 51 square metres, the largest store on the Okumura plot.

A late-Edo merchant house on Inuyama's old highway, rebuilt after the 1842 fire. Seven ken wide, plaster-clad, with a low tsushi upper floor. Registered 1999.

A small late-Edo gate at the former Okumura merchant house in Inuyama, Aichi: black-plastered front, white rear, just six square meters, registered in 1999.

Rebuilt in Inuyama after an 1842 fire by the tile makers who revived Inuyama ware, the Ozeki Family Main House keeps a vast earthen work hall. Registered 1999.

The Ozeki Family Storehouse in Inuyama is a two storey earthen walled kura of about 1842. A pent roof shelters its east front and its ground floor is a gallery.

The long gatehouse of the Onoda Family Residence in Toyohashi, Aichi, built about 1849: 17 meters with storerooms each side of the doors. Registered 2013. Private.

The main hall of Kagakuji, family temple of the Kira clan in Nishio, Aichi, built in 1684, keeps the six-room plan and slender timbers of an early Zen hall.

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.

Kakuoji Temple Main Hall in Fuso, Aichi, dates from 1814 and joined Japan's register in 2005. A Zen hall on an abbot's six-room plan, with a hidden upper floor.