Location List

Tangible Cultural Property Designated by Miyagi Prefecture.

The storehouse and mansion of the Sairis, a wealthy merchant family that prospered from the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate up through the Meiji Period as well as Taisho and Showa eras.

This is a rare upper-class samurai house of Sugoya style. There is a parlor surrounding the fireplace.

relocated historical house built in the 18th century

Kyu Kamei-tei (former Kamei residence) is a historical building built in 1924 by the first president of Kamei Corporation in Shiogama. It uses Japanese and Western-style housing architectural style...

The complex was used as a county employee housing facility until 2016. There are nine two-story buildings with a total of 46 rooms.

Ijinkan, Arita. A wealthy merchant build it to entertain the foreigners in Meiji Era. Is is resistrated as a cultural assets in Saga Pref.

It is said to have been built in early eighteenth century.

Tradesmen's house with grey plaster wall built in early nineteenth century.

Kunenan is a national scenic spot renown for its beautiful autumn leaves and was originally the holiday home of a Saga businessman named Taro Itami. The name "Kunenan" or literally "9 Year House" d...

Genboku Ito, a doctor and Dutch scholar, was born in Niiyama, Kanzaki-cho. Genboku lived in this old house until he was 21 years old. It is a thatched house with a hipped roof. A historic site in ...

The Kumagai Residence is a home once owned by a wealthy merchant family. The social status of the merchant at the end of the Edo Period can be seen from the size and the decorative interior of the ...

The Itohara Family is one of the three Tesshi Houses that has lived in Okuizumo for nearly 400 years. Tesshi were the heads of the official ironworkers, who managed everything from collecting mater...

Imaicho is a compact, beautifully preserved Edo period merchant town that has been designated as an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings in Japan. Many traditional r...

Shinmachi-dori Street is located in the town of Gojo in Nara prefecture. This area used to be one of the key points of transportation between Osaka and Kii. Houses in this area, built between the E...

Imanishi Shoin was originally used as the residence of a Buddhist monk of the Kofuku-ji Temple and handed over to the Imanishi family in 1924. Since then the house has undergone several repair cons...

About 10 minutes walk from Tazawako station on Japan Railway. Uses an old wooden building as a local center. It is a rare location that there is a shrine gate next to the building.

Built in 1926．As it looks like a western building, the spaces for living and guests are separated as the layout of Samurai houses. The western-style corridor separated the two spaces, which is a v...

The area which used to be an inn town. Has a row of old buildings built in the Edo era （1603–1868）and the Meiji era （1868–1912）on the street approximately 1 km long and can see the remnant of b...

Built around 1930. There is a flowerbed designed by a famous author, Kenji Miyazawa.