Edo
Ibaraki · 江戸Browse Ibaraki’s cultural heritage from the Edo period (1603 – 1868). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Iwase Family Residence Main House in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a hipped thatched farmhouse of about 1858, 26 meters long and 366 square meters, registered in 2009.
A long timber wall, roofed in copper and folding for about 46 metres, screens the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, the estate of a former Edo village headman.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An 1859 storehouse on Nakajo-dori in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, that held the shop's stock of kimono cloth. It turns its gable to the street and covers 50 square meters.
A late Edo townhouse on the corner of Nakajo-dori in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, with earthen walls, a tile roof and an unusually tall upper floor over 74 square meters.
An 1842 storehouse behind the Daitoku shopfront in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, the oldest of the 5 registered buildings there. It covers 20 square meters under a tile roof.
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.
The Kotabe Foundry Main House in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a late Edo dwelling of 9 by 5 ken. Home to bell casters for 37 generations, it was registered in 2001.
An earthen-walled storehouse on a Koga crossroads, dated by an ink inscription to 1863 and moved here from Koga Castle after its abolition. Registered in 2000.
The smallest and reputedly oldest of the six registered storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated only to the middle Edo period. Registered in 2000.
An 1858 storehouse in a Koga merchant compound, part-finished in black plaster and said to have been built as relief work. Registered in 2000, now a display room.
A late Edo storehouse said to have been moved here from Koga Castle and reopened as a shop, keeping its dense post spacing and exposed beams. Registered in 2000.
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.