Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

A Taisho stock storehouse behind a draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, black-plastered with a boarded north gable. Registered in 2015 and closed to visitors.

A Taisho grain store on the east edge of a draper's plot in Hojo, Tsukuba: a thin white-plastered single storey with a bath added later. Registered 2015.

A Taisho service block northeast of a draper's house in Hojo, Tsukuba: cooking room, bath and privy in one file, built detached. Registered in 2015 and closed.

A Taisho draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, its 2 black-plastered gable ends facing the old road to Mount Tsukuba. Registered in 2015; ground floor open free.

The Former Tonoike Kimono Store in Daigo, Ibaraki, is an 1896 merchant storehouse in black lime plaster, with four fireproof shutters on its upper floor.

A late-Edo farmhouse at Yoshise in Tsukuba, jacked up and turned to face east about 1886. Four-room plan, a formal shikidai entrance, deep segai eaves. Listed 2015.

An 1886 gatehouse at Yoshise in Tsukuba, dated by the ridge tag in its roof space, which also names the carpenter. Deep segai eaves, zelkova doors, a gallery inside.

An early Meiji storehouse on Tsuchiura's old highway, set beside the shop front. Its sugar stock filled the ground floor. Registered in 2016; now a workshop.

A middle Meiji merchant house facing Tsuchiura's old highway, its shop and living wings crossed in a T. Registered in 2016 and open free of charge today.

A small early Meiji storehouse at the back of a Tsuchiura merchant plot, its doors finished in black lime plaster. It held family goods including hina dolls.

A middle Meiji brick storehouse behind a Tsuchiura merchant house, laid in English bond with arched openings. Registered in 2016 and now used as a cafe.

Built in 1942 from standardised lumber and trusses, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Building No. 1 in Daigo, Ibaraki keeps its glazed south-wall transoms.

Added to Building No. 1 in 1960, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Building No. 2 in Daigo, Ibaraki keeps deep glazed transoms and its near-original fabric.

Built in 1954, Former Hatsubara Elementary School Auditorium in Daigo, Ibaraki holds one column-free room whose ceiling lifts toward the centre for exercise.

The Former Higuchi Hospital Inpatient Building, a wooden clinic of 1955 in Daigo, Ibaraki, shows modelled pilasters, a cross-shaped vent and tall narrow windows.

Built in 1933 in Hojo, Tsukuba, this wooden 2-storey former post office keeps its geometric porch and boarded walls. Registered in 2015; now used as a cafe.

Built in 1927 as a Daigoju Bank branch on Makabe's busiest corner, this 83 square meter building was a post office from 1956 to 1986 and registered in 2000.

Discover the Former Makinoji Elementary School in Daigo, Ibaraki — a 1950 wooden schoolhouse registered as a national tangible cultural property, now transformed into the beloved Daigo Oyaki School where visitors can make traditional Japanese sweets.

Discover the Former Machiya Substation (Kyu Machiya Hendensho), a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Hitachiota, Ibaraki. This Meiji-era red brick substation is one of the earliest power-generation heritage sites in the prefecture, also known as an NHK drama filming location.

Brick piers 3.8 meters high and a 2.2-meter wall of the late Meiji era in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, taken down in 2006 and rebuilt by residents in 2015 on a park site.