Edo
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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.
A late Edo merchant property on the Kujiragaoka ridge in Hitachiota, registered in 2021. A wide half-storey shop fronts the street, the main house joined behind it.
The Chojiya store and residence in Ishioka, Ibaraki, a late Edo gable-fronted former dyer's shop with heavy plastered walls, is now open as Machikura Ai.
The storehouse of the Tsuchiya family in Makabe, Ibaraki, a late Edo store said to be relief work after the typhoon of 1833, has a namako base and tall windows.
The Terunuma Family Residence Main House is a late Edo thatched magariya in Tokai Village, Ibaraki, registered in 2007. Privately owned, it cannot be visited.
The Numajiri main house in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a late-Edo thatched farmhouse (1751-1829). Its four-room plan and wide southern aisle mark a regional house type.
The late-Edo koraimon gate of the Nemoto physician family in Makabe, Sakuragawa, Ibaraki, with small tiled roofs over its posts and black board walls on either side.
The shop storehouse of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. From the late Edo era, it is the town's oldest surviving misegura. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property.
The Fudo hall of Mikkoji in Makabe, Ibaraki, known as the Meisui Fudo, is a small Shingon hall of 1840 under a pyramidal roof, richly carved around its porch.
The largest of the eight registered buildings at the Miyamoto compound in Hojo, Tsukuba: a late Edo dwelling of 141 square metres, linked to the shop by a corridor.
A late Edo soy sauce merchant's shop storehouse at Hojo in Tsukuba, plastered to the eaves, with shuttered upper windows. Registered in 2003; how to see it.
The Yaguchi Family Residence North Sleeve Storehouse is a late Edo clay store of 20 square metres, the oldest of nine registered buildings in this Makabe compound.
A late-Edo storehouse at Sakurai in Makabe, moved here around 1892, with an earthen canopy sheltering its door and heavy fire doors at the doorway and gable window.
Yatabe Family Residence Nagayamon Gate in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki, is a late Edo gatehouse registered in 2000. Hipped roof, barred windows, an 8-mat room within.
Wada Family Residence Ennenro in Mito is the city's oldest tea house, built in 1835 with two tea rooms. Moved twice, it was registered in 2015. Not open to visitors.