Shōwa
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Built in 1939 and registered in 2018, the Former Okada Elementary School Onabake Branch School Building in Ushiku is the city's last prewar timber schoolhouse.
An early Showa storehouse at Chikusei City, Ibaraki: 3 meters square, 9.9 square meters, clad in scale-patterned copper sheet. Built for the family mikoshi.
A steel-framed school hall of 1955 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, its frame cased in timber and rendered, with tall windows set against round ones. Registered in 2014.
Built in 1962 on rising ground in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, this 92-square-metre timber room links by a bridge to the upper floor of the main block. Registered in 2014.
A single-storey timber workshop of 1951 behind the main block in Daigo Town, Ibaraki: one open room of 7 by 4 bays under sheet metal. Registered in 2014.
Built in 1951 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki: a reading room and a cooking room of 5 by 4 bays under a single stepped roof, 141 square metres. Registered in 2014.
A 2-storey timber schoolhouse of 1950 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki: 81 metres long, carried on king post trusses, with lapped board walls. Registered in 2014.
Built in 1957 at Saigane in Daigo Town, this 533 square meter timber school keeps its lapped boarding, mortar entrance bay and corridor fire door. Registered 2018.
A 42 square meter cookhouse of 1956 at Saigane in Daigo Town, with mortar carried over the eaves soffit and boarded ceilings against fire. Registered in 2018.
Built in 1964 on a terrace 3 meters above the yard at Saigane in Daigo Town, this 188 square meter block glazes both long walls for daylight. Registered in 2018.
The main house of the former Shizan Juku in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, built in 1928 as a home and private academy of the Mito school, is in modern Japanese style.
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.
A 58 m single-storey wooden school of 1950 in the hills of Daigo, Ibaraki, with a gabled central porch and two tiers of windows; closed in 1996 and reused locally.
Former Watanabe Jinkichi Residence Main House is a 1934 Tudor house moved from Tokyo to Toride and registered in 2023. Open only on irregular booked days.
A two-storey timber shop-house of about 1932 in Ishioka, Ibaraki, with deep eaves and a symmetrical front, recalling the town rebuilt after the 1929 fire.