Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Once one of 10 storehouses flanking a trolley rail in Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Storehouse alone survives, its doors standing 2.7 meters high.

The Arakawa Family Residence Annex, a single-storey reception room of the early Taisho years, links the main house and the inner storehouse. It is not open.

Built in 1907 at Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Shop Storehouse opens almost its whole upper front to the street. It still trades as a liquor shop.

A 19-meter concrete gravity weir of 1913 on the Okitagawa in Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its right-angled intake gate turns the river into a conduit for the plant below.

An elliptical concrete tank of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, where the open channel ends and the penstock begins. Two Stoney gates stand at its inlet.

A concrete desilting basin of 1913 below the intake weir at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. It measures 30 by 9 meters, and its side channel can flush its own sediment.

A 49-meter granite retaining wall of 1913 at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki, built along the penstock between head tank and generating hall to hold the slope steady.

A single-storey concrete generating hall of 1913 beside the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Arched windows line its long wall, round ones the gables.

A 107-meter open channel of 1913 taking surplus water from the settling basin down to the Okitagawa at Kitaibaraki, Ibaraki. Its walls are diagonally coursed stone.

Iseya Ryokan Main House is a mid-Meiji inn in Makabe, Ibaraki, registered in 2000. Its upstairs rooms have alcoves and the roof is hipped west, gabled east.

Iseya Ryokan Storehouse is a mid-Meiji dozo of 15 square meters in Makabe, Ibaraki, registered in 2000. Its plaster doors and tiled south wall reward a slow look.

A 1922 two-storey dental clinic in Chikusei, Ibaraki, registered in 1999, rebuilt after a fire with timber clad in wire-mesh concrete, and still in use as a clinic.

A gatehouse of 1899 in Makabe, Ibaraki, 16.5 meters long, with a zelkova doorway and lower walls of namako-kabe tilework, recorded as the only such gate in the town.

An L-shaped shop and dwelling of the early Meiji era at Makabe, Ibaraki, 235 square meters in area, with a smoke vent on the ridge and a low Edo-period profile.

An early Meiji gatehouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Ibaraki, 9 ken across, with a grain store on one side, a barn on the other, and wicket doors beside the posts.

A single-bay yakuimon gate of the early Meiji era on the Iizuka road in Makabe, Ibaraki, with shinkabe wing walls and doors turning on wooden warza bearings.

Dating from 1863, the Isshiki Family Residence Main House is the last samurai dwelling in Tsuchiura's Shinkuruwa quarter, thatched and set beside an Enshu garden.

This zelkova gateway of the early Meiji era stands on Kamijuku-dori in Makabe and was registered nationally in 2000 as a model of gate design in a town of gates.

Built in 1904 by the prefectural engineer Komagine Kinji, this pink porch with its copper dome was Ibaraki's first entry on the national register, numbered 08-0001.

Okakura Tenshin drew this house at Izura himself and finished it in 1905: a single-storey timber home of reused beams, facing the Pacific, listed in 2003.

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