Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The kokugura at Fuchu Homare in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a wood-frame concrete rice store recording the fire-resistant methods adopted after the great fire of 1929.

The shikomigura at the heart of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a two-story earthen hall of 47.5 by 20 meters, largest of its registered buildings.

The 1869 main house of the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, turns a fireproofed north wall to the old provincial street and opens a tour of the brewery.

The tsukiya at the Fuchu Homare brewery in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a plain mid-Meiji earthen building of 132 sqm where sake rice was hulled and polished before brewing.

The Fuchu Homare nagayamon in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a small early Meiji timber gate with zelkova posts, said to copy the old checkpoint gate of former Fuchu town.

The Fuchu Homare bunkogura in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a three-story black-plaster storehouse of 1894, its ridge beam naming the carpenter and plasterer who built it.

The brick chimney of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A Taisho-era structure about 11 metres tall, linked underground to the kettle room. A Registered Property.

The old kettle storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1904, it held the steaming kettle and recalls a wartime requisition. A Registered Property.

The brewing storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. Built in 1909, this single-storey dozo still ferments the winter mash. A Registered Cultural Property.

The product storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji two-storey dozo, it is the largest on site. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The shop storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. From the late Edo era, it is the town's oldest surviving misegura. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

The side storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A late-Meiji dozo and the smallest building, it completes the street frontage. A Registered Property.

The Hosaka Family Main House in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a single-storey Taisho house of 140 sq m facing the family's Buyu sake brewery. Registered 2011; exterior only.

The Hosaka Family Storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a 20-square-metre kura of 1922, dated by an ink inscription naming its carpenter. Registered 2011; exterior only.

On Makabe's Takajomachi Street, this merchant property pairs a middle Meiji dwelling with a shopfront rebuilt after the 1923 earthquake. Registered in 2002.

This late-Meiji farmhouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, was registered in 2003 for its tall frame, glass-banded upper walls and projecting-purlin eaves.

An early-Meiji gatehouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Sakuragawa, registered in 2003: a 17.6-metre street front of zelkova gateway, white plaster and notched boarding.

The Masubuchi Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1873 (Meiji 6). It survives as a complete merchant compound — shop, main house, and long gatehouse — preserving the heritage of Makabe, once a thriving cotton-trade town at the foot of Mount Tsukuba. Explore it together with the surrounding Important Preservation District streetscape.

Built in 1873 in the Makabe preservation district of Sakuragawa, Ibaraki, the Masubuchi family shop is a two-story dozo merchant front on the old street.

Attached to the Masubuchi shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa, this 1873 nagayamon is a compact single-story gate about 6.9 meters wide, built of fine zelkova timber.