Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Built in 1905 at Izura, this nagayamon gate still holds the ticket desk. A cedar bark roof, 16.4 meters of boarded wall, and a repair campaign begun in 2025.
A 1926 townhouse on Makabe's old jinya street in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki. Entered from the gable end, boarded in sasarako siding, with high upper eaves. Registered 2002.
The Iwase Family Residence Front Gate in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a late Edo kabukimon 2.9 meters wide, keeping the decking of its original thatch. Registered in 2010.
The Iwase Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a white-plastered dozo of 2 storeys, 47 square meters, standing at the west end of the rear row.
The Iwase Family Residence Main House in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a hipped thatched farmhouse of about 1858, 26 meters long and 366 square meters, registered in 2009.
The Iwase Family Residence Middle Gate in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a tiled timber gate 2.5 meters wide that divides the grounds north from south. Registered in 2010.
The east gate of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, was the everyday entrance to a former Edo village headman's compound. A registered cultural property.
A long timber wall, roofed in copper and folding for about 46 metres, screens the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, the estate of a former Edo village headman.
The miso storehouse of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, a former headman's estate, is a two-storey timber store with deep lean-to eaves and white plaster.
The estate storehouse of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, held a former headman's household goods. A two-storey earthen dozo finished in black plaster.
The Ushioda sodegura is a tall storehouse adjoining the shop, gable to the street. Built in 1912, a door opens to the shop counter, forming one unified merchant frontage.
The Ushioda villa is a wooden hanare linked to the shop by a corridor. Built in early Meiji, it is a refined sukiya reception room with alcove, shelves and a shoin bay.
The black-plastered shop storehouse of the Ushioda kimono merchants stands on a Makabe corner. Built in 1910, it was the old town's first registered cultural property.
The Ushioda wakigura stands set back north of the shop and wing. Dated to 1897 or earlier, it is the oldest of the four and served the private life of the merchant house.
Built in 1936 with funds donated by merchant Umezu Fukujiro, this former town hall in Hitachiota keeps its corner tower and scratch tile and is now a free museum.
Completed in 1900 and registered in 2015, this brick sluice in Shimotsuma pairs two 3.6-metre twin gates with a curving retaining wall, free to visit in a park.
A brewer's merchant house of 1912 in Isohama, Oarai, moved here in 1926. Deep dashigeta eaves shade the west and south of a near-square plan. Registered in 2006.
A late Edo thatched farmhouse at Saku in Ishioka, Ibaraki. Its Tsukuba-school roof has a four-course eaves edge and worked motifs at both ends. Registered in 2005.
The Omori Family Residence Stone Storehouse in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a gable-entered store of 1917 with granite below and plaster above, registered in 2004.
The Omori Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop and dwelling of a silk-reeling family, registered in 2004 and viewed from the road.
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