In the Magariya (a L-shaped house having a staple block) found across the Tohoku region centering on Iwate prefecture, and in the multistoried "gassho-zukuri" (a house built of wooden beams combined to form a steep thatched roof that resembles two hands together) in Shirakawago we can see specific and unique kinds of Japanese traditional house.
岩手県を中心に東北地方周辺にみられる曲屋、白川郷などに見られる多層階建ての合掌造りなどの特殊な民家も見られる。