Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

A 1925 gravity concrete weir 20 metres long on the Satokawa, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Water Intake Station has a fish ladder and sluice gates and feeds the plant.

The Ozatogawa Power Plant Tailrace of 1925 returns water to the Satokawa along 142 metres of open channel, its dry stone walls crossed by 3 concrete arch bridges.

A 1925 reinforced concrete powerhouse on the Satokawa in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, the Ozatogawa Power Plant Main Building covers 186 square metres and still generates.

The Ozatogawa Power Plant Spillway of 1925 carries surplus water from the head tank down the hillside to the Satokawa, 281 metres in all, mostly as open channel.

Ozawa Family Residence Front Gate in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a mid-Meiji yakuimon gate 2.7 meters wide with wing walls, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.

Ozawa Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a plastered granary of 1871, 6.8 by 3.9 meters, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.

Ozawa Family Residence Main House in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a mid-Meiji thatched farmhouse of 168 square meters, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.

Discover the Kasama City Historical Folk Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Ibaraki Prefecture. This 1937 wooden Western-style former town hall showcases early Showa civic architecture alongside archaeological and folk exhibits from the Kasama region.

Discover the Kami Power Plant Intake in Hitachi-Ōta, Ibaraki Prefecture — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1919. Explore this Taishō-era hydroelectric facility on the Satogawa River.

Discover the Kami Power Station Tailrace and Spillway, a registered tangible cultural property built in 1919. This Taisho-era hydroelectric waterway in Hitachiota, Ibaraki showcases exquisite stone masonry and a segmental arch bridge still standing after a century.

Discover the Kami Power Station Main Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Hitachiota, Ibaraki. Built in 1919, this operational hydroelectric facility features a Swiss-made Francis turbine and Taisho-era wooden architecture along the Satogawa River.

Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building in Koga City is a Western-style timber building of 1935 with a corner watchtower, registered in 2004.

A single-storey timber wing of about 1935 behind the Kameya Shoji main building in Koga City, with stained glass and an umbrella-shaped ceiling, registered in 2004.

Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building Storehouse in Koga City is a 20-square-meter plastered store of about 1935, registered in 2004.

A late Meiji brick warehouse on the prefectural road in Koga City, 15 ken long and laid in English bond, built for the Iijima silk business and registered in 2004.

Discover the Kawashima Shoten Misegura in Makabe, Sakuragawa City — a late Edo-period shop-storehouse originally built for an herbal medicine dealer, now a registered cultural property and a working bookshop in one of Japan's most beautifully preserved merchant townscapes.

Tucked into the historic streets of Makabe in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki, the Kawashima Clothing Store Storehouse is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in the late Edo period (circa 1830 to 1867). Combining white plaster walls, battened weatherboarding, and gracefully wave-plastered eaves, this small but exquisite dozo storehouse offers a window into the craftsmanship of Japan's late Edo masters. Explore it as part of Makabe's Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings.

Built around 1932, Kisoba Tokyoan Store and Residence in Ishioka City turned a gabled Japanese roof to a street of Western shopfronts. Still a working soba shop.

The Kitaoka Family Residence in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1931 single-storey shop house entered from its gable end, registered in 2004 and still a private home.

Located in the historic merchant district of Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Kinuya Pharmacy Store is a small but elegantly crafted two-story wooden misegura (storehouse-shop) from the mid-Meiji period. With its plastered side walls, gabled tile roof, and traditional shop front, it forms part of a remarkable cluster of registered cultural properties along the old textile-trading street, recognized in 2006 for its contribution to Japan's historic landscape.

Ibaraki’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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