Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1942 from standardised lumber and trusses, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Building No. 1 in Daigo, Ibaraki keeps its glazed south-wall transoms.

Added to Building No. 1 in 1960, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Building No. 2 in Daigo, Ibaraki keeps deep glazed transoms and its near-original fabric.

Built in 1954, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Auditorium in Daigo, Ibaraki holds one column-free room whose ceiling lifts toward the centre for exercise.

The Former Higuchi Hospital Inpatient Building, a wooden clinic of 1955 in Daigo, Ibaraki, shows modelled pilasters, a cross-shaped vent and tall narrow windows.

Built in 1933 in Hojo, Tsukuba, this wooden 2-storey former post office keeps its geometric porch and boarded walls. Registered in 2015; now used as a cafe.

Built in 1927 as a Daigoju Bank branch on Makabe's busiest corner, this 83 square meter building was a post office from 1956 to 1986 and registered in 2000.

A 58 m single-storey wooden school of 1950 in the hills of Daigo, Ibaraki, with a gabled central porch and two tiers of windows; closed in 1996 and reused locally.

A brick substation of about 1909 in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, serving the power station that first lit Machiya and Ota in 1911; a rare early power relic in the area.

Brick piers 3.8 meters high and a 2.2-meter wall of the late Meiji era in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, taken down in 2006 and rebuilt by residents in 2015 on a park site.

Former Watanabe Jinkichi Residence Main House is a 1934 Tudor house moved from Tokyo to Toride and registered in 2023. Open only on irregular booked days.

A two-storey timber shop-house of about 1932 in Ishioka, Ibaraki, with deep eaves and a symmetrical front, recalling the town rebuilt after the 1929 fire.

A three-storey Meiji brick storehouse in Joso, Ibaraki, built by the Gokita family of Kinu River wholesalers, trimmed in over-fired brick and now used for exhibits.

The Kotabe Foundry North Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 13 by 3 ken warehouse of the early Meiji era, filed under industry and registered in 2001.

The Kotabe Foundry Main House in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a late Edo dwelling of 9 by 5 ken. Home to bell casters for 37 generations, it was registered in 2001.

The Kotabe Foundry South Storehouse in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a 2-storey earthen store of 55 square metres, registered in 2001 as a model of building design.

The Kotabe Foundry Gate in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a timber yakuimon of 3.0 metres, flanked by board and stone fences and registered in 2001 as a cultural property.

Konishi Misegura is an early Meiji shop-storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, registered in 2005. Black plaster walls, a low upper floor, no ridge tablet to date it.

A rice store of the middle Meiji era at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003. Not a plastered vault but exposed posts and boarded walls, in house form.

A shop of 1928 on the old Shimodate highway at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003. Hipped roofs, a deep lean-to, glass doors of the early Showa years.

Sakairi Family Residence Main House in Tsuji, Ishioka City is an early Meiji thatched farmhouse 21 meters wide, noted for the striped toshimono eaves of its roof.

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