Taishō

Discover the Kami Power Plant Intake in Hitachi-Ōta, Ibaraki Prefecture — a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1919. Explore this Taishō-era hydroelectric facility on the Satogawa River.

Discover the Kami Power Station Tailrace and Spillway, a registered tangible cultural property built in 1919. This Taisho-era hydroelectric waterway in Hitachiota, Ibaraki showcases exquisite stone masonry and a segmental arch bridge still standing after a century.

Discover the Kami Power Station Main Building, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Hitachiota, Ibaraki. Built in 1919, this operational hydroelectric facility features a Swiss-made Francis turbine and Taisho-era wooden architecture along the Satogawa River.

Tucked into the mountains of northern Ibaraki Prefecture, the Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 1 is a roughly 39-meter-long wooden schoolhouse built in 1913. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it is a beautifully preserved example of the single-corridor school architecture once common in rural Japan. Discover this quiet rural heritage site in Daigo Town alongside attractions such as the spectacular Fukuroda Falls.

A wooden 2-storey former inn on the Hinuma River in Oarai, Ibaraki. Registered in 2007, it shows deep eaves on a projecting purlin and a latticed ground-floor bay.

An early Taisho townhouse in Ryugasaki. Its 5 ken front carries a tiled lean-to, and inside stands a principal post 36 centimetres square. Registered in 2004.

Discover the Former Kyōrakukan (Hitachi Budōkan) in Hitachi City, Ibaraki. This striking 1917 wooden theater was built by the Hitachi Mine in the style of Tokyo's Kabukiza and is now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan.

The Former Daigo Bank Head Office in Daigo, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1917. Featuring Renaissance-inspired columns and a distinctive corner dome, this elegant wooden bank building now serves as the Machikado Bijutsukan gallery. A must-visit on any heritage walk through the Oku-Kuji area, home to the famous Fukuroda Falls.

A Taisho stock storehouse behind a draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, black-plastered with a boarded north gable. Registered in 2015 and closed to visitors.

A Taisho grain store on the east edge of a draper's plot in Hojo, Tsukuba: a thin white-plastered single storey with a bath added later. Registered 2015.

A Taisho service block northeast of a draper's house in Hojo, Tsukuba: cooking room, bath and privy in one file, built detached. Registered in 2015 and closed.

A Taisho draper's shop in Hojo, Tsukuba, its 2 black-plastered gable ends facing the old road to Mount Tsukuba. Registered in 2015; ground floor open free.

A Taisho-era stone storehouse in Koga, Ibaraki, walled in cut Oya tuff with single long stones at each doorway. Registered in 2000, it now holds a small hall.

A Taisho house of around 1921 behind the family shop in Makabe, Sakuragawa City. Its plan sets a 6-mat Western room beside a 10-mat altar room. Registered in 2004.

Built in 1916 in the central shopping street of Daigo Town, Ibaraki, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property combines a two-story gabled shop section with a single-story hipped residential wing. Today it operates as daigo cafe, just a three-minute walk from Hitachi-Daigo Station.

Built in 1912 in the heart of Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Daigo Cafe Dozo is a two-story earthen storehouse registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Highlights include the striking contrast between its white and black plaster, and the namako-kabe lattice tiling along its gable skirts — both products of skilled traditional craftsmanship. Today the dozo serves as part of the beloved 'daigo cafe,' where visitors can enjoy dishes featuring Okukuji apples, wasabi, and shamo chicken. Combined with attractions such as Fukuroda Falls, it offers an unforgettable taste of the history and food culture of the Okukuji region.

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.

Built in 1924 behind a shop-storehouse on Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, this hipped-roof wooden house of 147 square metres was registered as a cultural property in 2004.

The Tsukamoto Family Residence Miseigura is a wooden single-story shop-storehouse built in the mid-Taisho era, located in the historic merchant town of Makabe in Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property alongside the family's gate, main house, and earthen storehouse, it forms one of the most evocative streetscapes of preserved early-20th-century Japan.

Tenkoku Art Museum Rear Storehouse, a stone warehouse of 1920 in Koga, Ibaraki, shows an exposed king post truss and a roof monitor over Exhibition Rooms 3 to 5.