Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building in Koga City is a Western-style timber building of 1935 with a corner watchtower, registered in 2004.

A single-storey timber wing of about 1935 behind the Kameya Shoji main building in Koga City, with stained glass and an umbrella-shaped ceiling, registered in 2004.

Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building Storehouse in Koga City is a 20-square-meter plastered store of about 1935, registered in 2004.

A late Meiji brick warehouse on the prefectural road in Koga City, 15 ken long and laid in English bond, built for the Iijima silk business and registered in 2004.

Discover the Kawashima Shoten Misegura in Makabe, Sakuragawa City — a late Edo-period shop-storehouse originally built for an herbal medicine dealer, now a registered cultural property and a working bookshop in one of Japan's most beautifully preserved merchant townscapes.

Tucked into the historic streets of Makabe in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki, the Kawashima Clothing Store Storehouse is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the late Edo period (circa 1830 to 1867). Combining white plaster walls, battened weatherboarding, and gracefully wave-plastered eaves, this small but exquisite dozo storehouse offers a window into the craftsmanship of Japan's late Edo masters. Explore it as part of Makabe's Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.

Built around 1932, Kisoba Tokyoan Store and Residence in Ishioka City turned a gabled Japanese roof to a street of Western shopfronts. Still a working soba shop.

The Kitaoka Family Residence in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1931 single-storey shop house entered from its gable end, registered in 2004 and still a private home.

Located in the historic merchant district of Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Kinuya Pharmacy Store is a small but elegantly crafted two-story wooden misegura (storehouse-shop) from the mid-Meiji period. With its plastered side walls, gabled tile roof, and traditional shop front, it forms part of a remarkable cluster of registered cultural properties along the old textile-trading street, recognized in 2006 for its contribution to Japan's historic landscape.

The Kimura Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a clay-walled dwelling of 79 square meters, rebuilt by 1853 after fire and registered in 2000.

The Kimura Family Residence Misegura in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a 66 square meter clay-walled shop, the earliest raised after the 1837 fire, registered in 2000.

The Kimura Family Residence Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a wooden yakuimon 2.4 meters wide, built about 1853 and listed in 2002 for its role in the street.

Tucked into the mountains of northern Ibaraki Prefecture, the Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 1 is a roughly 39-meter-long wooden schoolhouse built in 1913. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it is a beautifully preserved example of the single-corridor school architecture once common in rural Japan. Discover this quiet rural heritage site in Daigo Town alongside attractions such as the spectacular Fukuroda Falls.

The Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 2, set deep in a quiet valley in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, is a single-story wooden schoolhouse completed in 1937. Together with the older 1913 Building No. 1, it is registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan and continues in use today as a satellite campus for a correspondence high school. This guide introduces the building's history, architectural significance, surrounding sights such as Fukuroda Falls, and practical visitor information.

A three-storey brick storehouse of 1910 on Hitachiota's Kujiragaoka, built for the Inada family, with pediments and black-plastered doors. Registered 2014.

A 20-square-meter earthen storehouse of 1937 joined to the Japanese-style wing of the Uetake residence in Inashiki, Ibaraki, its mortar walls scored like stone.

A 1937 timber house in Inashiki, Ibaraki, faced in mortar scored to imitate stone, under a half-hipped slate roof with a semicircular pediment. Registered in 2007.

A single-story building of 1937 in Inashiki, Ibaraki, with a copper hipped gable roof, tatami reception rooms, a coved coffered ceiling and stained glass transoms.

Built in 1910 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 1 keeps 4 classrooms off a north corridor and boarded walls. Free entry at weekends.

Built in 1963 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 3 sets clerestory windows against doubled posts and braces. Free entry at weekends.