Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

The estate storehouse of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, held a former headman's household goods. A two-storey earthen dozo finished in black plaster.

The Ushioda sodegura is a tall storehouse adjoining the shop, gable to the street. Built in 1912, a door opens to the shop counter, forming one unified merchant frontage.

The Ushioda villa is a wooden hanare linked to the shop by a corridor. Built in early Meiji, it is a refined sukiya reception room with alcove, shelves and a shoin bay.

The black-plastered shop storehouse of the Ushioda kimono merchants stands on a Makabe corner. Built in 1910, it was the old town's first registered cultural property.

The Ushioda wakigura stands set back north of the shop and wing. Dated to 1897 or earlier, it is the oldest of the four and served the private life of the merchant house.

Built in 1936 with funds donated by merchant Umezu Fukujiro, this former town hall in Hitachiota keeps its corner tower and scratch tile and is now a free museum.

Completed in 1900 and registered in 2015, this brick sluice in Shimotsuma pairs two 3.6-metre twin gates with a curving retaining wall, free to visit in a park.

A brewer's merchant house of 1912 in Isohama, Oarai, moved here in 1926. Deep dashigeta eaves shade the west and south of a near-square plan. Registered in 2006.

A late Edo thatched farmhouse at Saku in Ishioka, Ibaraki. Its Tsukuba-school roof has a four-course eaves edge and worked motifs at both ends. Registered in 2005.

The Omori Family Residence Stone Storehouse in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a gable-entered store of 1917 with granite below and plaster above, registered in 2004.

The Omori Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop and dwelling of a silk-reeling family, registered in 2004 and viewed from the road.

The Omori Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Makabe, Ibaraki, is a small early Taisho gatehouse with doubled degeta eaves, registered in 2004 and seen from the lane.

The Owada Family Rental Store in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a timber shopfront of about 1930 built to be let out, with a central column dividing it into two shop units.

Okujun Ichi-no-kura in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a Meiji-era timber townhouse registered in 2006. Its plastered walls and restored open shopfront anchor the Omachi street.

Okujun Tenpo in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an early Taisho shop clad in copper sheeting, registered in 2005. It is still the buying floor where the house trades tsumugi silk.

Okujun Dozo in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an 1904 earthen storehouse registered in 2005. Its thick plastered walls hold the steady humidity that Yuki-tsumugi silk needs.

Okujun Hanare in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an 1886 annexe registered in 2005. Its formal eight-mat room facing an inner garden still hosts talks between silk wholesalers.

Okujun Misegura in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an earthen-walled shop of 1886 whose ridge tag records the exact day its frame was raised. It was registered in 2005.

Okusho Store and Main House in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a timber merchant house of 1935 that glazed its entire frontage yet kept the deep eaves of an older shop.

Ogura Shoten Store and Main House stands among the earthen-walled shops of Yuki City, a timber townhouse of the early Meiji era showing its posts and beams outside.