Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

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.

In Makabe, Sakuragawa, this early Showa gate of the Masubuchi Hiroichi family blends three gate types, munamon, yakuimon and udegimon, into one design.

Set back within the Masubuchi Hiroichi family lot in Makabe, Sakuragawa, this early Showa dozo storehouse has plastered walls and double-leaf fire shutters.

The Mamiya Family Residence Main House in Takabu, Hitachiomiya City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a Meiji-era wood-framed Japanese-Western fusion home built in 1902. Combining a traditional farmhouse-style two-story wing with a striking three-story Western tower painted in pale green, it stands as a vivid landmark in the historic post town of Takabu-juku and was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2003.

The Fudo-do of Mikkoji Temple in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a small but exquisitely detailed late-Edo Buddhist hall registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2004. Reconstructed in 1840, this three-bay-square hall combines a serene pyramidal hip roof with vibrant cage-carved and full-round sculptures around the front porch. Set within the nationally designated historic preservation district of Makabe, the hall offers international visitors a memorable encounter with rural Japanese craftsmanship.

A reinforced concrete distribution tower built in 1932 in the historic Sannomaru district of Mito, Ibaraki. Designed by waterworks engineer Goto Tsurumatsu, the 21.6-meter cylindrical structure features Gothic-inspired ornament and fire-hose-motif reliefs. Registered Tangible Cultural Property, one of Japan's 100 Best Modern Waterworks, and JSCE Selected Civil Engineering Heritage.

An early Meiji grain store of 11 by 4.5 metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, turned into a concert hall in 2008. Audiences enter the earthen interior on recital days.

The largest of the eight registered buildings at the Miyamoto compound in Hojo, Tsukuba: a late Edo dwelling of 141 square metres, linked to the shop by a corridor.

A late Meiji document storehouse of 20 square metres at Hojo in Tsukuba, smallest of the registered buildings there, with a plaster medallion over its window.

An early Meiji cooking wing of 37 square metres running east from the dwelling house at Hojo in Tsukuba, with a bath and stores attached. Registered in 2003.

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