Edo

Built in 1830, the same year as the main hall, this single-bay yakui-mon faces north onto the old road. Bracketing and a carved gable strut give it character.

The most decorative of Shunkoin's seven buildings, this 1865 bell tower sits on a river-stone base, with bracketing, fan rafters, and a painted coffered ceiling.

This late-Edo entrance and shoin reflect a move: local accounts say the reception wing came in 1879 from the home of Takeda Shokuro, founder of Arimatsu shibori.

Rebuilt in 1830, Shunkoin's main hall takes the six-room hojo form under a hip-and-gable roof. It faces north, and its image is Tahonyorai, rare in Soto Zen.

Built in 1860 at Joshoji Temple in Toyota City, this kitchen-residence keeps an ink inscription naming its date and master carpenter. Registered in 2005.

Standing on the mid-slope of historic Mount Komaki in Aichi Prefecture, Sōsuikan is a refined single-story wooden zashiki hall built in 1888 as a guest reception facility and later owned by the Owari Tokugawa family. Restored to its original 1888 appearance in 2022 and registered as a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in August 2025, the hipped-roof, tile-roofed building with its formal shikidai entrance offers visitors a graceful encounter with Meiji-era hospitality architecture.

Taki Shrine's 1672 main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, is a one-bay structure of just 2.4 square metres, registered in 2013 and set within a protective covering hall.

Chobo-ji Kuri in Nagoya is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of 1828, its date and carpenter named on the ridge tag, older than the main hall beside it.

Chōboji's main gate in Nagoya is a late-18th-century wooden yakuimon, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the Zen temple where Mujū wrote the Shasekishū.

The 1831 main hall of Chiryu Shrine in Aichi is a cypress-bark sanctuary beside the old Tokaido, registered, not designated, near a famed pagoda and festival.

Nyoiji's 1826 four-legged gate in rural Toyota faces the main hall. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property, its bracketing and frog-leg struts are pure late Edo.

Nyoiji Shoin in Toyota City, Aichi, began in the late Edo period as a temporary worship hall, later refashioned into a reception room with a raised upper floor.

A small Edo-period bell tower at a Pure Land temple east of Toyota, Nyoiji Shoro was built around 1755 and registered in 2013, with a fine mirror ceiling inside.

At Nyoiji, a Pure Land temple in Toyota, Aichi, a drum turret rises from a low hall with a drum hung inside, registered as a late-Edo cultural property in 2013.

The Main Hall of Nyoi-ji Temple in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, is a grand Jōdo Shinshū worship hall built around 1823. With its seven-bay facade, hip-and-gable tiled roof, ornate double rainbow beam gable decoration, and raised coffered ceiling in the inner sanctuary, it represents the fully matured form of Shin Buddhist temple architecture. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013.

A modest 1848 storehouse in Toyohashi holding the Hada Hachimangu Bunko, an Edo-era library that lent books to the public and prefigured Japan's public libraries.

Raised in 1852, the Juo-do at Fumonji is a small hall to the Ten Kings who judge the dead. Registered in 2025, it was listed for its part in the historic landscape.

Built in 1707, the Fumonji Shoromon holds its temple bell inside a two-story gate, a form rare in East Mikawa. It still sounds its year-end bell by daylight.

Built in 1854, the Daishi-do at Fumonji honors Kukai, founder of Shingon, its coffered ceiling painted with plants in vivid color. It opens on set festival dates.

Nestled on the slope of Mt. Funagatayama in Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, the Bentendo (former Ryujingu) of Fumonji Temple is a small Edo-period shrine-style hall built in 1714. Originally dedicated to a dragon deity, it now enshrines Benzaiten, the goddess of water and good fortune. Recommended for registration as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in March 2025, the building is admired for its abundant ornamental carvings and the unusual rooster-head sculptures that crown its four corner pillars. Set along the Slope of Good Connections and shaded by ancient cypresses, it is a hidden gem within Toyohashi's beloved Maple Temple.