Edo

The Kobayashi Family Residence, a thatched farmhouse at 750 meters on a ridge in Hinohara, west Tokyo, was built in the early 1700s and is reached by monorail.

Denpoin, the head residence of Sensoji in Asakusa, keeps six buildings from 1776 to 1918, a rare survival of a great Edo temple residence beside its garden.

The Nitenmon Gate of Sensoji in Asakusa, Tokyo, built around 1649 as the gate of a lost Toshogu shrine, survived war and earthquake with its triple-ridge ceilings.

Built in 1632 as the outer gate of the second shogun's mausoleum at Zojoji, this gate is the only part still standing on its own ground after the 1945 air raid.

A late Edo farmhouse in Ome, Tokyo, an Important Cultural Property since 1978. Moved from the Nariki hills, it keeps a cedar-bark and thatch roof. Free entry.

Raised in 1717 for the seventh shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu, this vermilion gate is all that survives of the last Tokugawa mausoleum, the rest lost in wartime raids.

A late Edo document storehouse in Chofu, Tokyo, joined to the main house by a small room, with earthen walls, a gabled roof and plastered shutters. Registered 2014.

A late Edo farmhouse in Irumacho, Chofu, Tokyo, with a hipped thatched roof under sheet metal, an earth-floored doma and five raised rooms. Registered in 2014.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Nagayamon Gate in Fussa, Tokyo: a late Edo timber gatehouse with rooms beside the passage, a copper roof and bracketed eaves on the front only.

Ishikawa Sake Brewery Bunkogura in Fussa, Tokyo: a small 1863 storehouse dated by ink on its stairs, a former treasure store registered for its fine plaster work.

Mitake Shrine Suigyodo in Ota Ward, Tokyo, is a rare 1867 ablution hall used by Kiso Ontake mountain ascetics. Discover dragon carvings, a sacred well, and a quiet pocket of Edo-period faith just two minutes from Ontakesan Station.

For two months in 1868 the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, confined himself in this modest shoin at Kan'eiji, the room where Tokugawa rule quietly ended.

The Gallery ef storehouse in Asakusa, Tokyo, a timber merchant's storehouse of 1868 that survived quake and war, is now a free gallery and café by the river.

In Ome, Tokyo, the storehouse of Sōshidō dates to 1847, the oldest on the grounds. Its ridge tag names it the wind-gate storehouse, set at the southeast corner.

In Ome, Tokyo, the nagayamon gate of Sōshidō is a late-Edo farmhouse entrance. Its wings sheltered wartime evacuees; later Yoshikawa Eiji used them to store books.

Kyoshoji Temple Main Hall in Ikenohata, Tokyo, is an 1857 Jodo Shinshu hall built in fireproof dozo plaster construction, registered as a Cultural Property in 2010.

Kounji Temple Bell Tower in Nakano, Tokyo, a one-bay belfry of about 1749 moved here in 1914, stands on a tall stone base with close-set brackets and lion carvings.

International Christian University Taizanso Waiting Room, a late Edo thatched tea building said to be the Ikeda lords' Chitei, used as the waiting room for Kofukyo.

The Shimoda Residence in Nishitokyo housed Tanashi's hereditary headmen. A late-Edo, copper-roofed timber farmhouse, it is the city's oldest, registered in 2019.

Janoyu Onsen Takaraso, a Registered Cultural Property in Hinohara, is Tokyo's only secluded hot-spring inn: a thatched late-Edo farmhouse with a kabuto-shaped roof.