Edo
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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.
The inner sanctum of Joshoin, a sub-temple of Zojoji in Shiba, Tokyo, is a fireproof prayer hall of 1769 that survived the war, with a black-lacquered ceiling.
At the foot of Tokyo Tower stands the 1743 vermilion front gate of Shinkō-in, a branch of the Tokugawa temple Zōjō-ji, registered as a Cultural Property in 2001.
A late-Edo townhouse in Yanaka, Tokyo, the two-storey Oguraya pawnshop keeps its wide plank door and eight-mat counter room. Registered as heritage in 2000.
The oldest building of a Nishitokyo farmstead, a late Edo stable raised to two stories before the war, keeping its original frame and open lean-to; registered 2018.
The c.1822 brewing hall of Tamura Sake Brewery in Fussa, Tokyo: three linked earthen kura, extended in 1918 and 1922, with an octagonal brick chimney in iron bands.
Tamura Sake Brewery Zogura in Fussa, Tokyo: an 1862 two-storey earthen store with a floating tiled roof and two doorways, its ridge set crosswise to its neighbor.
Tamura Sake Brewery's 1830 rice store in Fussa, Tokyo: a small two-storey earthen kura with a floating tiled roof, notched boarding and double earthen doors.
A late Edo grain storehouse in Higashikurume with a detached roof, four courses of Oya stone at its base, white plaster walls and stepped plaster doors facing east.
An 1838 thatched farmhouse in Higashikurume: 23 m long under a hip-and-gable roof, with a stable at one end and a six-room plan and reception room at the other.
A late Edo storehouse in Higashikurume, 5.4 m long, with white plaster walls, a family crest on the east gable and an interior of close-set posts and iron bars.
Morita Family Residence Okankindo is a late-Edo family Buddhist chapel in Akiruno, Tokyo: a tiny earthen hall under a pyramidal copper roof with a jewel finial.
Morita Family Residence Former Rice Storehouse, a large late-Edo earthen store in Akiruno, Tokyo, known as Hachiken, became the kaiseki restaurant Tōtōan in 1996.