Edo
Saitama · 江戸Browse Saitama’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Shodendo of Kangiin in Kumagaya, Saitama, a gongen-zukuri hall paid for by ordinary worshippers and covered in colour carving, a National Treasure since 2012.
Kitain in Kawagoe, Saitama: rebuilt after the 1638 fire with halls said to come from Edo Castle, it has six Important Cultural Property buildings, open to visit.
The Former Arai Family Residence in Nagatoro, Saitama, dates from about 1745 and keeps the only stone-weighted board roof in Chichibu. Designated 1971, open inside.
A large farmhouse of about 1859 in Iwatsuki Ward, Saitama City, registered in 2017. Lattice doors ring its altar room, said to be fitted against late-Edo riots.
Begun in 1858 for a raw silk broker, this Ogose merchant house keeps its shop room and through-passage. Blade marks from the 1866 Bushu uprising survive inside.
A late Edo well hall south of the Niomon gate at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, with a 3-meter-square well floor, a Suitengu room and fine carving.
A 1783 shrine, middle of three behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, holding five deities, with a red ochre frame and painted gable.
A tiny 1787 one-bay shrine of plain wood behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, its eaves crowded with fine carving. Registered 2017.
A 1761 bell tower at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, on a double base with a boarded lower storey and open bell floor, made tall by later work. Registered 2017.
A 1785 one-bay shrine behind the Shodendo at Menuma Shodenzan Kangiin, Saitama, almost identical to the Sanbo Kojin Shrine built two years later. Registered 2017.
A late Edo merchant house on the old Nikko Kaido in Satte, Saitama, with a gabled front and a hipped rear. Registered in 2009, it now operates as a cafe.
The main house of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, is a late Edo house where a doctor-poet opened his surgery in 1926 and the poet Kaneko Tota grew up.
A late Edo yakuimon gate, 2.8 meters wide, at a headman's estate in Kumagaya, set between a stone storehouse and a plastered range under a curved gabled roof.
A late Edo farmhouse in Kumagaya with a broad earth-floored work area, a four-room grid and a raised guest room for high-ranking visitors, open as a museum.
A small late Edo udegimon gate, 1.5 meters wide, guarding the main garden of a Kumagaya headman's estate, with doubled bracket arms, curved rafters and plank doors.
A late Edo storage range doubling as a boundary wall at a Kumagaya headman's estate: 21 bays long, white plaster over Oya stone, six windows along its south face.
A late Edo storehouse of a fertilizer merchant on the Nikko Kaido in Koshigaya, Saitama. Registered in 2025 as a standard of design, now open as a community cafe.
The purification pavilion of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine in Saitama, of the late Edo period, has cusped gables, splayed posts and carved dragons and brackets.
The main hall of Koshigaya Hisaizu Shrine in Koshigaya, Saitama, built in 1789, is a three-bay nagare-zukuri hall richly decorated with fine unpainted carving.
A late Edo hatago on the Nakasendo in Okegawa, Saitama, run as a timber shop since the 1860s. Registered in 2004 for its deep dashigeta eaves and full-width lattice.