Edo
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The Kimura Family Residence Misegura in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a 66 square meter clay-walled shop, the earliest raised after the 1837 fire, registered in 2000.
The Kimura Family Residence Gate in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a wooden yakuimon 2.4 meters wide, built about 1853 and listed in 2002 for its role in the street.
An 1848 farmhouse in Chikusei City, Ibaraki, built for a village headman: 31 meters across, 401 square meters, with a formal shikidai entrance. Registered in 2016.
An 1859 storehouse on Nakajo-dori in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, that held the shop's stock of kimono cloth. It turns its gable to the street and covers 50 square meters.
A late Edo townhouse on the corner of Nakajo-dori in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, with earthen walls, a tile roof and an unusually tall upper floor over 74 square meters.
An 1842 storehouse behind the Daitoku shopfront in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, the oldest of the 5 registered buildings there. It covers 20 square meters under a tile roof.
A late-Edo farmhouse at Yoshise in Tsukuba, jacked up and turned to face east about 1886. Four-room plan, a formal shikidai entrance, deep segai eaves. Listed 2015.
The Kotabe Foundry Main House in Sakuragawa, Ibaraki is a late Edo dwelling of 9 by 5 ken. Home to bell casters for 37 generations, it was registered in 2001.
An earthen-walled storehouse on a Koga crossroads, dated by an ink inscription to 1863 and moved here from Koga Castle after its abolition. Registered in 2000.
The smallest and reputedly oldest of the six registered storehouses in a Koga merchant compound, dated only to the middle Edo period. Registered in 2000.
An 1858 storehouse in a Koga merchant compound, part-finished in black plaster and said to have been built as relief work. Registered in 2000, now a display room.
A late Edo storehouse said to have been moved here from Koga Castle and reopened as a shop, keeping its dense post spacing and exposed beams. Registered in 2000.
The Shima Family Residence Main House in Shirosato, Ibaraki, is a thatched Edo farmhouse of two wings set at a right angle, opened free on its monthly smoking day.
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.
Discover Chōjiya Store and Residence in Ishioka, Ibaraki — a late-Edo indigo dye shop that survived the 1929 Great Fire and now welcomes visitors as the cultural lounge "Machikura Ai" on the historic Nakamachi shopping street.
Located in the Makabe district of Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki, the Tsuchiya Family Residence Storehouse is a small two-storey earthen warehouse from the late Edo period, said to have been built as a relief construction project after the Tenpo-era typhoon of 1833. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, its just-29-square-metre footprint packs in superb craftsmanship — namako-kabe walls, heavy kannon-bira doors, and plastered eaves — and offers a perfect introduction to Makabe's preserved historic townscape.
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.