Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Ibaraki

A mid-Meiji storehouse behind the main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. White lime plaster, boards on 3 of its 4 faces, iron shutters upstairs. Registered in 2004.

Sato Family Residence Front Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City is an early Meiji yakuimon 2.5 meters wide, with carved gegyo pendants and inlaid umeki on its posts.

The Shima Family Residence Main House in Shirosato, Ibaraki, is a thatched Edo farmhouse of two wings set at a right angle, opened free on its monthly smoking day.

The Jushichiya footwear shop of 1930 in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a kanban-style building whose flat front has tall windows and a Lombard band below the eaves.

The Sugaya Cosmetics Store in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a timber shop-house of 1930 whose front is dressed with classical pilasters, a dentilled cornice and a pediment.

A late Meiji yakuimon gate at the east end of Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Family Residence Front Gate has a gabled roof and 2.4 metre opening.

An early Meiji gatehouse at Furushiro in Makabe, Sakuragawa, the Suzuki Brewery Nagayamon Gate covers 64 square metres beneath a deeply eaved hipped tiled roof.

The timber wing behind the storehouses of a kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki: two tatami rooms of about 1883, one holding the family altar. Registered 2014.

A small sleeve storehouse of 1883 standing gable-end to the street beside the shop of a former kimono fabric wholesaler in Yuki, Ibaraki. Registered in 2014.

A tall two-story shop storehouse of about 1883 facing west onto the old merchant street of Yuki, Ibaraki, with a black plaster cornice at the eaves. Registered 2014.

The main house of Suzuki Boseki in Yuki, Ibaraki, joined behind the shop, has a single-storey half of 1906 and a two-storey half of 1933 with a coved Western room.

The Suzuki Boseki misegura in Yuki, Ibaraki, built in 1906 as a grain merchant's shop, is a plastered storehouse whose ridge tablet names its master carpenter.

Built in 1810 on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this earthen-walled merchant shop still trades as a bookshop, its earth floor under a ceiling of Western arches.

At the rear of a merchant plot on Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, this storehouse of about 1908 has a burnished black plaster front and a torii-shaped door frame.

A single-story range of 1875 behind the family shop at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its alcove, writing bay and open veranda survive; read as the original guest rooms.

A two-story timber shop of 1875 at Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its L-shaped earth floor, counter and eaves canopy survive; registered in 2002, viewable from the road.

The Daigo Cafe shop-house in Daigo, Ibaraki, a corner town house of 1916, joins a two-storey shop to a one-storey home, with a railed upper floor and beams.

The Daigo Cafe storehouse in Daigo, Ibaraki, built in 1912 for the hardware shop next door, is a white plastered store with black trim and namako tiles at its base.

A Meiji shop on a Makabe crossroads in Sakuragawa City, registered in 2002. Hipped roof, rendered walls, deep canopy, and a ground floor the city leases to traders.

Built at Oarai in 1917, the house joined a German-sided Western clinic wing to a Japanese living wing. Registered in 2005, privately owned, viewable from the street.

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