Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

A wooden inn built in 1929 on a street corner in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its entrance canopy, wide upper openings and balustrade mark the trade. Registered 2002.

A Meiji-era storehouse of just 21 square metres in Makabe, Sakuragawa City: white lime plaster above, boarding below to shed rain. Registered in 2002 with its inn.

Discover the Megane Bridge in Takahagi, Ibaraki — a reinforced-concrete double-arch aqueduct built in 1918 that still carries water for hydroelectric power. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and JSCE Heritage of Civil Engineering set amid the scenic Hananuki Gorge.

An early Showa timber house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered 2004. Boarded walls, plaster on the street front alone, hipped tiled roof; exterior viewing only.

A Meiji koraimon gate at Makabe, Sakuragawa City, registered 2004. Round posts, gabled tiled roof, wing walls each side, a wicket door; street viewing only.

Raised around 1930 after a fire razed central Ishioka, this two-storey timber shophouse fronts Nakamachi-dori with scratch-tile pilasters. Registered in 2004.

A mid-Meiji merchant house on a T-junction corner in Makabe, Sakuragawa. Its west flank alone is plastered like a storehouse, a fire precaution learned in 1837.

An 1893 earthen storehouse set deep in a Makabe merchant plot. Its ridgepole inscription names the month of building and the master carpenter, a rare dated record.

Built in 1928 and spared by the fire that levelled Ishioka a year later, this artificial-stone shopfront is the town's oldest signboard building and still trades.

Built in 1931 on Ishioka's Nakamachi Street, this sugar shop wears the heavy roof of a traditional merchant house, yet its black wall is concrete, not plaster.

The Fuchu Homare kamaba in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is an early Meiji earthen building whose raised koshiyane roof vented the steam from rice steamed for sake.

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.