Meiji

Late Meiji in date, the Arakawa Family Residence Former Shop Storehouse was hauled aside in 1933 when Route 50 was widened. Its exterior is seen from the pavement.

Built in 1892 for the Aratame wholesale house in Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Main House graded its reception rooms by the visitor's rank. It is closed.

Once one of 10 storehouses flanking a trolley rail in Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Storehouse alone survives, its doors standing 2.7 meters high.

Built in 1907 at Shimodate, the Arakawa Family Residence Shop Storehouse opens almost its whole upper front to the street. It still trades as a liquor shop.

Iseya Ryokan Main House is a mid-Meiji inn in Makabe, Ibaraki, registered in 2000. Its upstairs rooms have alcoves and the roof is hipped west, gabled east.

Iseya Ryokan Storehouse is a mid-Meiji dozo of 15 square meters in Makabe, Ibaraki, registered in 2000. Its plaster doors and tiled south wall reward a slow look.

A gatehouse of 1899 in Makabe, Ibaraki, 16.5 meters long, with a zelkova doorway and lower walls of namako-kabe tilework, recorded as the only such gate in the town.

An L-shaped shop and dwelling of the early Meiji era at Makabe, Ibaraki, 235 square meters in area, with a smoke vent on the ridge and a low Edo-period profile.

An early Meiji gatehouse at Iizuka in Makabe, Ibaraki, 9 ken across, with a grain store on one side, a barn on the other, and wicket doors beside the posts.

A single-bay yakuimon gate of the early Meiji era on the Iizuka road in Makabe, Ibaraki, with shinkabe wing walls and doors turning on wooden warza bearings.

This zelkova gateway of the early Meiji era stands on Kamijuku-dori in Makabe and was registered nationally in 2000 as a model of gate design in a town of gates.

Built in 1904 by the prefectural engineer Komagine Kinji, this pink porch with its copper dome was Ibaraki's first entry on the national register, numbered 08-0001.

Okakura Tenshin drew this house at Izura himself and finished it in 1905: a single-storey timber home of reused beams, facing the Pacific, listed in 2003.

Built in 1905 at Izura, this nagayamon gate still holds the ticket desk. A cedar bark roof, 16.4 meters of boarded wall, and a repair campaign begun in 2025.

The miso storehouse of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, a former headman's estate, is a two-storey timber store with deep lean-to eaves and white plaster.

The Ushioda sodegura is a tall storehouse adjoining the shop, gable to the street. Built in 1912, a door opens to the shop counter, forming one unified merchant frontage.

The Ushioda villa is a wooden hanare linked to the shop by a corridor. Built in early Meiji, it is a refined sukiya reception room with alcove, shelves and a shoin bay.

The black-plastered shop storehouse of the Ushioda kimono merchants stands on a Makabe corner. Built in 1910, it was the old town's first registered cultural property.

The Ushioda wakigura stands set back north of the shop and wing. Dated to 1897 or earlier, it is the oldest of the four and served the private life of the merchant house.

Completed in 1900 and registered in 2015, this brick sluice in Shimotsuma pairs two 3.6-metre twin gates with a curving retaining wall, free to visit in a park.