Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

The Kimura Family Residence Main House in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a clay-walled dwelling of 79 square meters, rebuilt by 1853 after fire and registered in 2000.

The Kimura Family Residence Misegura in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a 66 square meter clay-walled shop, the earliest raised after the 1837 fire, registered in 2000.

The Kimura Family Residence Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a wooden yakuimon 2.4 meters wide, built about 1853 and listed in 2002 for its role in the street.

Tucked into the mountains of northern Ibaraki Prefecture, the Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 1 is a roughly 39-meter-long wooden schoolhouse built in 1913. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it is a beautifully preserved example of the single-corridor school architecture once common in rural Japan. Discover this quiet rural heritage site in Daigo Town alongside attractions such as the spectacular Fukuroda Falls.

The Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 2, set deep in a quiet valley in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, is a single-story wooden schoolhouse completed in 1937. Together with the older 1913 Building No. 1, it is registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan and continues in use today as a satellite campus for a correspondence high school. This guide introduces the building's history, architectural significance, surrounding sights such as Fukuroda Falls, and practical visitor information.

The Former Inada Family Residence Red Brick Storehouse in Hitachi-Ota City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property built in 1910 by the prosperous sake brewing family Inadaya. This rare three-story Meiji-era brick storehouse features exquisite timber framing by master shrine carpenter Tatsukichi Saito and distinctive black lacquer plaster doors, now serving as a community art gallery on the historic Kujira-ga-Oka (Whale Hill).

A 20-square-meter earthen storehouse of 1937 joined to the Japanese-style wing of the Uetake residence in Inashiki, Ibaraki, its mortar walls scored like stone.

A 1937 timber house in Inashiki, Ibaraki, faced in mortar scored to imitate stone, under a half-hipped slate roof with a semicircular pediment. Registered in 2007.

A single-story building of 1937 in Inashiki, Ibaraki, with a copper hipped gable roof, tatami reception rooms, a coved coffered ceiling and stained glass transoms.

Built in 1910 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 1 keeps 4 classrooms off a north corridor and boarded walls. Free entry at weekends.

Built in 1963 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 3 sets clerestory windows against doubled posts and braces. Free entry at weekends.

Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 2, built in 1937 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, spans 31 meters on king-post trusses. Registered in 2014; free entry at weekends.

At Iwai in Bando City, the Former Otsuka Sake Brewery Shop and Main House dates from the middle Meiji era, and its floorboards were cut from sake vat lids.

Built in 1895 at Iwai in Bando City, the Former Otsuka Sake Brewery Main Storehouse covers 795 square meters, its hall carried on 10 larch-beamed pillars.

Built in 1939 and registered in 2018, the Former Okada Elementary School Onabake Branch School Building in Ushiku is the city's last prewar timber schoolhouse.

A wooden 2-storey former inn on the Hinuma River in Oarai, Ibaraki. Registered in 2007, it shows deep eaves on a projecting purlin and a latticed ground-floor bay.

A mid-Meiji, 3-storey timber pavilion at Takabe in Hitachiomiya. Coloured glass and a sake signboard filled its top wall. Registered in 2022; open a few days a year.

Discover the Former Onoseke Residence Main House, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki. This elegant Meiji-era wooden home reveals the lifestyle of a prosperous dried-sardine merchant family that shaped the region's economic history.

An early Taisho townhouse in Ryugasaki. Its 5 ken front carries a tiled lean-to, and inside stands a principal post 36 centimetres square. Registered in 2004.

An 1848 farmhouse in Chikusei City, Ibaraki, built for a village headman: 31 meters across, 401 square meters, with a formal shikidai entrance. Registered in 2016.