Edo

A late Edo earthen storehouse in Gotsu, Shimane, 9.9 m long, its ground floor split for rice and straw, with a lean-to on the west where rice was polished.

A late Edo two-story earthen storehouse opposite the rear door of a headman's house in Gotsu, Shimane, with boarded floors, rough walls and bamboo roof sheathing.

A late Edo one-bay gate on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, 1.7 meters wide, with double rafters, a cloud-bracket beam and carved gable pendants; registered in 2009.

An 1853 house on Honmachi-dori in Gotsu, Shimane, with a red Sekishu-tile gable roof crossed by a smoke vent and a six-room plan; it was registered in 2009.

A late Edo wall in Gotsu, Shimane, running 26 meters to divide three forecourts of the Fujita main house, its eaves and finish changing as it goes; registered 2009.

An 11-metre-wide merchant townhouse on Tsuwano's old highway, rebuilt after the great fire of 1853, registered in 2010. Its shopfront glass bears the family crest.

A two-storey earthen storehouse behind the Bundoya shop in Tsuwano, built after the 1853 fire. Clay walls, a cut-stone base, a family crest raised in gable plaster.

Hozumi Residence Shita-no-kura, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo storehouse east of the main house, its posts leaning inward and a curved timber carrying the ridge beam.

Hozumi Residence Main House, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo headman's house, six rooms in a grid west of the earth floor, re-roofed in Sekishu tile over four-tier beams.

Hozumi Residence Sedo-no-kura, Onan, Shimane: a late Edo storehouse behind the main house, its raised roof set over plaster carried right up to the eaves.

The Okage Well of 1861 before Miho Shrine in Mihonoseki, Matsue, a stone shaft ringed by an octagon of slabs, served residents, seafarers and pilgrims alike.

A late Edo stone retaining wall fronting the Yamashita estate in Gotsu, Shimane, 45 meters long and up to 3.8 meters high, of random split stone with bonded corners.

A late Edo two-story row house on the Yamashita estate in Gotsu, Shimane, 15 meters long with exposed posts; its ground floor held a servants' room and a stable.

An 1841 earthen storehouse at the southeast corner of the Yamashita estate in Gotsu, Shimane, plastered white up to its eaves above a board-clad base.

Yamamoto Family Residence Rear Nagaya, a late Edo two-story building at the west end of a long plot in Mori, Yasugi, with an earth-floored gateway and washing place.

Yamamoto Family Residence Kamaya, a 10-square-meter late Edo hut behind the main house in Mori, Yasugi, with chestnut posts, earth-plaster walls and a board skirt.

Yamamoto Family Residence Small Storehouse, a 10-square-meter late Edo kura for tools in Mori, Yasugi, with board-guarded plaster walls and a door in the east gable.

Soto-Sakuradamon holds the largest masugata court left at Edo Castle and the ground where Ii Naosuke fell in 1860. Free to pass, and lit nightly until 9 p.m.

Tayasumon in Kitanomaru Park is the oldest surviving building at Edo Castle, dated to 1636 by an inscription on its door fittings. Free to walk through at any hour.

The main hall of Gokokuji in Bunkyo, Tokyo, a seven-bay Kannon hall built in 1697 on the orders of the shogun Tsunayoshi, enshrines a hidden image of Kannon.