Edo

Dating from 1800, Shojukan North Storehouse is the oldest building on the estate, shortened at its northern end in the late Edo period and registered in 2021.

Shojukan Rice Storehouse of 1860 is the only store on the estate boarded below and plastered above, a skirt of timber against rain splash. Registered in 2021.

Built in 1865, Shojukan New Storehouse has the deepest plan of the five stores at three bays, the last one raised in the Edo period. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan Document Storehouse of 1829 is the largest of the five stores, its doubled roof and plastered band built to keep paper dry. Registered in 2021.

Shojukan South Storehouse of the late Edo period is the only store here entered from the gable end, opening straight off a tatami room. Registered in 2021.

The main hall of Takamiya Shrine in Shigaraki, Koka, built in 1859 by a master carpenter from Hachiman, is a fine medium-sized one-bay nagare-style shrine hall.

The worship hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, from the late Edo period, is an open hall at the foot of the rock peak and a rare early building there.

The main hall of Tarobogu Aga Shrine in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1753 on the flank of a rock peak, is a small hip-and-gable hall rich in carved beasts.

A tiny late Edo rice store at the old Tsuchiyama honjin in Shiga, built as a seirogura of stacked planks, then plastered and clad in boards. Registered in 2023.

A two-storey earthen storehouse of the late Edo period in a corner of the old Tsuchiyama honjin, Shiga, with a separate okiyane roof set on its thick clay walls.

The main hall of Nishifukuji in Higashiomi, Shiga, built in 1862 at the end of the Edo period, follows the typical Jodo plan, with carvings throughout.

The main house of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu is a late Edo townhouse, remodelled in 1934, with iron-barred slit windows and a lattice on Nakamachi-dori.

The storehouse of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo building behind the main house, has a neat torii-shaped doorway and keeps festival furnishings.

The wall of the Hatsuda Family Residence in Otsu, a late Edo timber wall 9.2 metres long, runs along the east lane from the main house, forming a period streetscape.

The Himurean Main House sits on the old Kyo Kaido highway in Omihachiman, an early 19th-century townhouse of 117 square metres, registered in 1998 and still in use.

A late 18th-century soy sauce brewer's townhouse on Omizo's merchant street in Takashima, Shiga. It keeps its tiled udatsu fire walls and houses a cafe and bakery.

A small early 19th-century storehouse behind the Fukui main house in Takashima, Shiga, holding household goods rather than soy sauce. Plaster above, boarding below.

An early 19th-century koji fermentation room in Takashima, Shiga, where soy sauce brewing began. Its long front roof slope gives it the look of a Shinto shrine hall.

An 1857 townhouse facing the old Nakasendo in Takamiya, Hikone, with its gable to the street, a broad earth-floored passage, eight rooms and a plastered facade.

An 1853 two-storey earthen storehouse in Takamiya, Hikone, older than the main house, with a plaster dragon on its door frame and walls sealed to the eaves.