Edo

Shonenji Temple Gate stands on the west side of a temple precinct in Kada, Wakayama City. This small late-Edo four-legged gate is framed entirely in zelkova.

Shonenji Main Hall in Kada, Wakayama City, is a seven-bay Pure Land hall built in 1795 in the castle town of Wakayama and moved here in 1907. Registered in 2017.

Registered in 2006, this late Edo priests' residence in Hashimoto keeps an archaic oshiita alcove, a hint that Koyasan monks used it as a lowland winter retreat.

Suhara Kakubei Yashiki Shuoku in Yuasa, Wakayama, ridge-tablet dated to 1797 and registered in 2004, housed merchants whose fishing grounds reached Sakhalin.

The Suhara Kakubei storehouse in Yuasa, Wakayama, is a late-Edo two-storey dozo of 40 square metres, white-plastered with an iron skirt, registered in 2004.

This 42-metre earthen wall edges the Suhara Kakubei Residence in Yuasa, Wakayama, marking where a vanished front gate stood in a late-Edo merchant compound.

Set in Kitayama, Japan's only municipal exclave, the 1847 main hall of Tōkō-ji combines a hōjō sanctuary and kuri wing under plank-clad gables called gangi.

Dated to 1721 by its ridge tablet, the Hibuse Clinic main house in Hashimoto, Wakayama still fronts a working clinic and is a registered benchmark machiya.

Dated to 1856, the Hiramatsu main house in Kawabe, Wakayama is a village headman's farmhouse with a projecting formal entrance and a fine shoin reception room.

In Kawabe, Wakayama, the Hiramatsu long-house gate spans 18.7 m, with single-plank zelkova doors and barred windows under a tiled roof, built in the late Edo period.

In a mountain hamlet of Susami, Wakayama, the Fukuda Residence is fronted by a castle-like stone wall four metres high, with 154 m of ramparts in all.

At Horikawaya Nomura in Gobo, Wakayama, this workshop presses soy sauce mash and heats it over a wood fire. Its brick chimney marks a brewery registered in 2014.

The First Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo store where soy sauce mash matures. Koji mould clings even to the timber here. Registered in 2014.

The Shop and Main House at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo townhouse on Gobo's Shinmachi street, its timber stained red with bengara. It alone is open to visitors.

The storehouse at Horikawaya Nomura is a late-Edo, two-storey dozo near the brewery's heart, its thick walls guarding tools from fire and damp. Registered in 2014.

The Matabei Residence Main House is a late-Edo townhouse in Gobo's temple town, its eaves bearing a local fascia, odare. It frames the lane behind the Betsuin.

The thatched kuri of Horikoshi Shaku Kannon in Katsuragi Town, Wakayama, is a late-Edo building laid out like a farmhouse at a Katsuragi Shugen practice site.

A late Edo townhouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, on the old Yamato Kaido. Plaster runs to the eaves, a low tsushi-nikai storey, an earthen naka-doma. Registered 2004.

A late Edo storehouse in Hashimoto, Wakayama, roofed in heavy hongawara tile and split inside between utensils, rice and clothing. Registered in 2004.

The Misoya Bekkan Shimogura in Hashimoto City, Wakayama, is a traditional Japanese earthen storehouse built in 1808 during the late Edo period. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, this rare surviving merchant-family kura stands at the heart of the former post town that prospered along the pilgrimage route to Mt. Koya, offering visitors a quiet glimpse of two centuries of Japanese commercial heritage.