Edo

A Soto Zen temple in Toyama Prefecture. Timber taken out during the repairs there was made into a small vessel, and that too is recorded here separately.

An Edo-period gassho-zukuri farmhouse in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture. The two separate records there narrow down its own date very differently even today.

Discover the Iwase Family Residence in Gokayama, Toyama — Japan's largest surviving gasshō-zukuri farmhouse. Designated as an Important Cultural Property, this five-story thatched-roof masterpiece reveals the secrets of Edo-period saltpeter production and mountain village life.

The Saeki Family Residence in Takaoka, Toyama, is a farmhouse bought from a Kaga domain headman and re-erected here in 1768. Papers date it; Toyama's oldest minka.

An 18th-century highway farmhouse relocated to the Tateyama Museum grounds in Toyama. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1971; repaired and reopened 2025.

Discover Shokoji Temple in Takaoka, Toyama — a recently designated National Treasure featuring 12 magnificent Edo-period buildings, the Seven Wonders, and a 23-year restoration masterpiece. Plan your visit to this hidden gem of Japanese Buddhist heritage.

A Soto Zen hall of 1661 to 1751 at Kanseiji in Takaoka, Toyama, built on the plain eight-room abbot plan. From 1902 it served as a classroom for trainee nuns.

The front gate is the first thing visitors meet, a heavy, imposing structure fit for a family ranked among Etchu's great landlords and village officers.

The north gate opens onto the estate's working side, where the work yard and well stood, carrying daily farm labour rather than the formal reception of the front gate.

Built in 1868, the Uchiyama main house blends a working farmhouse with Meiji reception rooms: deep sheltering eaves, a moon-viewing platform and a hidden water-chime.

An 1855 earthen-walled storehouse in Namerikawa, Toyama, that outlived the 1866 fire. White and black lime plaster, torii-frame windows. Registered in 2017.