Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Suzuki Boseki Main House in northern Yuki, Ibaraki, is a registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, built in 1906 alongside its companion storefront warehouse. Two surviving ridge tags record its construction details, and the building forms part of one of the Kanto region's finest surviving Meiji-era merchant streetscapes.

The Suzuki Boseki Misegura in Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Meiji-era shop-storehouse built in 1906 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property. Its unusual asymmetric roof — hipped on the right and gabled on the left — reflects the prosperity of Yuki as a silk-trading town famed for Yuki-tsumugi. Still in active use as the head office of Suzuki Boseki Co., Ltd., it embodies the principle of living heritage preservation.

Built in 1916 in the central shopping street of Daigo Town, Ibaraki, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property combines a two-story gabled shop section with a single-story hipped residential wing. Today it operates as daigo cafe, just a three-minute walk from Hitachi-Daigo Station.

Built in 1912 in the heart of Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Daigo Cafe Dozo is a two-story earthen storehouse registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Highlights include the striking contrast between its white and black plaster, and the namako-kabe lattice tiling along its gable skirts — both products of skilled traditional craftsmanship. Today the dozo serves as part of the beloved 'daigo cafe,' where visitors can enjoy dishes featuring Okukuji apples, wasabi, and shamo chicken. Combined with attractions such as Fukuroda Falls, it offers an unforgettable taste of the history and food culture of the Okukuji region.

Discover Chōjiya Store and Residence in Ishioka, Ibaraki — a late-Edo indigo dye shop that survived the 1929 Great Fire and now welcomes visitors as the cultural lounge "Machikura Ai" on the historic Nakamachi shopping street.

The Tsukamoto Family Residence Miseigura is a wooden single-story shop-storehouse built in the mid-Taisho era, located in the historic merchant town of Makabe in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property alongside the family's gate, main house, and earthen storehouse, it forms one of the most evocative streetscapes of preserved early-20th-century Japan.

Standing on Kamishuku-dōri in the historic town of Makabe (Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture), the Tsukamoto Family Residence Gate is a wooden yakuimon built in 1907. Its gabled pantile roof and 2.8 m frontage form an integral part of the streetscape alongside the family's shop storehouse, earthen storehouse, and black plank fence. It was listed as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2004.

The Tsukamoto Tea Shop Side Warehouse is a two-story earthen-walled storehouse built in the mid-Meiji period, located along Ojin'ya-mae-dōri in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, it still serves as a tea leaf storage facility today. Discover merchant heritage in Makabe's Important Preservation District, home to over 100 registered cultural properties.

Located in the Makabe district of Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki, the Tsuchiya Family Residence Storehouse is a small two-storey earthen warehouse from the late Edo period, said to have been built as a relief construction project after the Tenpo-era typhoon of 1833. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, its just-29-square-metre footprint packs in superb craftsmanship — namako-kabe walls, heavy kannon-bira doors, and plastered eaves — and offers a perfect introduction to Makabe's preserved historic townscape.

Naka-bashi in Hitachi-Ōta City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a reinforced concrete single-arch bridge completed in 1937 over the Sato River. Recognized as one of the earliest Lohse-type arch bridges in the Kantō region and northeastern Japan, it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Locally beloved as Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge).

The Nakamura main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is the 1913 living wing behind a merchant's storefront warehouse, a refined timber home raised by a local carpenter.

The Nakamura storefront warehouse in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1913 two-story misegura, its open lower front facing the street below a clapboard-clad upper floor.

The Nakamura main house at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is an early-Meiji reception hall deep in a walled estate, its innermost room holding a full shoin alcove and shelves.

The Nakamura document storehouse at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji clay vault that stacks three low floors on just 26 square metres to guard family papers from fire.

The Nakamura yakuimon and wall at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji gabled gate with a 25-metre wall, registered for its contribution to the historic streetscape.

The residence of the Nishioka family, brewers in Makabe, Sakuragawa. This two-story timber main house adjoins the shop and storehouse, and was registered in 2004.

The shop of the Nishioka family compound in Makabe, set back from the street. Much altered outside, it keeps its earthen floor and counting room. Registered 2004.

A two-story clay-walled storehouse at the Nishioka family compound in Makabe. Its eaves and shuttered gable windows shape the garden by the shop. Registered 2004.

The largest storehouse of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, this clay-walled dozo once held brown rice. Registered in 2001, it is now a gallery space.

The shop of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, maker of Hananoi sake since 1782, was once the Shimizuya main house. It joined the national register in 2001.

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