Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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 1810 on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this earthen-walled merchant shop still trades as a bookshop, its earth floor under a ceiling of Western arches.

At the rear of a merchant plot on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this storehouse of about 1908 has a burnished black plaster front and a torii-shaped door frame.

A single-story range of 1875 behind the family shop at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its alcove, writing bay and open veranda survive; read as the original guest rooms.

A two-story timber shop of 1875 at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its L-shaped earth floor, counter and eaves canopy survive; registered in 2002, viewable from the road.

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.

A Meiji shop on a Makabe crossroads in Sakuragawa City, registered in 2002. Hipped roof, rendered walls, deep canopy, and a ground floor the city leases to traders.

Built at Oarai in 1917, the house joined a German-sided Western clinic wing to a Japanese living wing. Registered in 2005, privately owned, viewable from the street.

A late Edo merchant property on the Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, registered in 2021. A wide half-storey shop fronts the street, the main house joined behind it.

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.

Built in 1924 behind a shop-storehouse on Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, this hipped-roof wooden house of 147 square metres was registered as a cultural property in 2004.

Facing Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, this clay-walled storehouse of 1908 covers 80 square metres and shows one small window high in its white plastered gable wall.

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.

A mid-Meiji two-storey storehouse on Makabe's old main street in Ibaraki, registered in 2000, built as a document store with double-leaf doors and now storing tea.

Tsuchiura Civic Hall, registered in 2024, is a 1969 hall by the acoustician Sato Takeo, with a colonnaded south entrance front and a curved-walled main auditorium.

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.

The Degawa Family Residence Stone Storehouse of 1937 in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is 6.7 metres long in granite 325 millimetres thick, its long walls dressed edokiri.

The Degawa Family Residence Main House, a 1937 town house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, was registered in 2005. Its 1951 pharmacy front took a shallow hood, not a shop eave

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