Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

The Nakabashi Bridge of 1937 in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, a concrete arch known as the Spectacles Bridge, is an early Lohse bridge and rare north of the Kanto region.

The Nakamura main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is the 1913 living wing behind a merchant's storefront warehouse, a refined timber home raised by a local carpenter.

The Nakamura storefront warehouse in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1913 two-story misegura, its open lower front facing the street below a clapboard-clad upper floor.

The Nakamura main house at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is an early-Meiji reception hall deep in a walled estate, its innermost room holding a full shoin alcove and shelves.

The Nakamura document storehouse at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji clay vault that stacks three low floors on just 26 square metres to guard family papers from fire.

The Nakamura yakuimon and wall at Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a Meiji gabled gate with a 25-metre wall, registered for its contribution to the historic streetscape.

The residence of the Nishioka family, brewers in Makabe, Sakuragawa. This two-story timber main house adjoins the shop and storehouse, and was registered in 2004.

The shop of the Nishioka family compound in Makabe, set back from the street. Much altered outside, it keeps its earthen floor and counting room. Registered 2004.

A two-story clay-walled storehouse at the Nishioka family compound in Makabe. Its eaves and shuttered gable windows shape the garden by the shop. Registered 2004.

The largest storehouse of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, this clay-walled dozo once held brown rice. Registered in 2001, it is now a gallery space.

The shop of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe, maker of Hananoi sake since 1782, was once the Shimizuya main house. It joined the national register in 2001.

A compact white-rice storehouse of the Nishioka Honten brewery in Makabe. Near-windowless and set against the shop, it was registered in 2001 and is now a gallery.

The former Mitsukaido town office in Joso, Ibaraki, built in 1913, is a symmetrical single-storey timber building made to look like two storeys, now a library annex.

The Anglican chapel of Saint Barnabas in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, built in 1930 west of the castle ruins, has concrete walls, timber trusses and an octagonal bell tower.

The Numajiri storehouse in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story mid-Meiji building (1868-1911), holding farm tools below and documents above, like the rice store.

The Numajiri rice storehouse in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story early-Meiji granary (1868-1911). Its gable-entry, boarded form is now remodeled as a cafe.

The Numajiri main house in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a late-Edo thatched farmhouse (1751-1829). Its four-room plan and wide southern aisle mark a regional house type.

The Numajiri row building in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story early-Taisho structure (1912-1925), a workshop below and a silkworm room above, now used as a shop.

The late-Edo koraimon gate of the Nemoto physician family in Makabe, Sakuragawa, Ibaraki, with small tiled roofs over its posts and black board walls on either side.

A 1932 concrete gallery wing of the Bakumatsu and Meiji Museum in Oarai, Ibaraki, with windowless faux-stone walls, pilasters, dentils and Corinthian-style columns.

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