Important cultural property

A timber schoolhouse of 1904 in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, the first old-system middle school building in Japan made an Important Cultural Property. Spire, arches, access.

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.

Erected in 1465 on Mount Tomiya in Ibaraki, this three-bay pagoda carries a finial inscription naming both its patron and its master carpenter. Designated in 1906.

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 Ieyasu paid for this hall in 1605 as Kashima's main sanctuary. Hauled to the rear of the precinct in 1619, it survives unlacquered and plain.

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.

A 1920 shoin wing and an early Meiji storehouse at the Former Sakano Family Residence in Joso City, Ibaraki, became an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

The Former Yanaka Family Residence in Tsukuba, built in 1942 and 1949 by materials researcher Yanaka Ryujiro, became an Important Cultural Property in 2023.

A pagoda finial planted in the ground as a monument in itself: 9.16 metres of hammered copper on a wooden core, raised at Sairenji in 1287 and incised with donors.

Built in 1543 and shorn of its upper storey in the Kansei era, Sairenji Niomon still carries three-stepped brackets designed to hold a balcony that is long gone.

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.

The 1546 main hall of Satakeji in Hitachiota, Ibaraki, prayer temple of the Satake clan: a thatched hall wrapped in a shingled pent roof with a central cusped gable.

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.

Chateau Kamiya in Ushiku, Ibaraki, the brick winery Kamiya Denbei completed in 1903, keeps its office, fermentation house and storehouse, now open as Ushiku Chateau.

A Muromachi-period gate at Zenkoji in Ishioka, begun by the Oda clan as a two-storey romon but left unfinished; parts meant for the upper level remain in its roof.

The 1577 main hall of Daiho Hachimangu in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, built by a local castle lord: a tall three-bay hall on thick posts with small, intricate bracketing.

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.