Edo
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A mid-Edo farmhouse in Tsukuba, Ibaraki, designated an Important Cultural Property in 1976. Its 18.5-metre thatched hip roof covers an early four-room grid plan.
Built in 1860 in Kasama, Ibaraki, this unpainted zelkova shrine hall carries seven relief panels of the Orchid Pavilion gathering on its inner chamber walls.
Four linked halls at Hitachi's first-ranked shrine in Ibaraki, raised in 1618 and 1619 by the shogun Hidetada and built by his master carpenter Suzuki Nagatsugu.
Built in 1619 to house Kashima's deity while the main hall was rebuilt, this temporary sanctuary was never taken down. Moved three times, it stands today.
Tokugawa Yorifusa gave this two-storey gate to Kashima in 1634, its timbers cut in Edo and rafted downriver. Repainted in 2026, its vermilion is only months old.
Designated in 1968, the Sakano Family Residence in Joso City keeps a thatched main house, a samurai-style gate and a one-hectare walled compound, open as a museum.
A thatched farmhouse of a village-official family in Kasumigaura, Ibaraki, dated by an ink inscription to 1674: the oldest dated farmhouse in eastern Japan.
An L-shaped thatched magariya farmhouse from the early 18th century, moved in 1975 from Kanasago to the house museum in Koga Kubo Park; Ibaraki's oldest known one.
Naige Daijingu in Chikusei, Ibaraki, on a medieval estate of the Ise Grand Shrines, keeps twin shinmei-style main halls of 1679 and a thatched Gosenden of 1574.
The Nakazaki Family Residence in Mito, a thatched farmhouse traditionally dated to 1688, was designated an Important Cultural Property in 1968. Privately owned.
The Hanawa Family Residence in Kasama City, Ibaraki, is a late Edo farmhouse of 2 blocks roofed as one. Designated an Important Cultural Property in 1976.
The Hirai Family Residence in Inashiki City, Ibaraki, is a thatched hall-plan farmhouse of the Genroku era. Designated in 1976, it was restored 2001 to 2003.
An early-18th-century thatched L-shaped house in Kamisu, Ibaraki, home to village headmen and fishing masters; a rare fishing family house to be so designated.
Tokugawa Mitsukuni's thatched retreat outside Hitachiōta, where he spent his last nine years editing the Dai Nihonshi. Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty.
A single-storey timber reception wing joined to a merchant house in Makabe, Ibaraki, with 9, 10 and 8 mat rooms set in a row and a formal alcove. Registered in 2017.
A late Edo merchant house on Shinjuku-dori in Makabe, Ibaraki. Its shop block of 5 bays is built with storehouse walls, and the main house meets it at a right angle.
A late Edo timber gate opening onto Shinjuku-dori in Makabe, Ibaraki. The opening measures 2.6 meters and the front roof slope is laid in older heavy tiling.
Dating from 1863, the Isshiki Family Residence Main House is the last samurai dwelling in Tsuchiura's Shinkuruwa quarter, thatched and set beside an Enshu garden.
The Iwase Family Residence Front Gate in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a late Edo kabukimon 2.9 meters wide, keeping the decking of its original thatch. Registered in 2010.
The Iwase Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a white-plastered dozo of 2 storeys, 47 square meters, standing at the west end of the rear row.