Meiji
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Okujun Ichi-no-kura in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a Meiji-era timber townhouse registered in 2006. Its plastered walls and restored open shopfront anchor the Omachi street.
Okujun Dozo in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an 1904 earthen storehouse registered in 2005. Its thick plastered walls hold the steady humidity that Yuki-tsumugi silk needs.
Okujun Hanare in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an 1886 annexe registered in 2005. Its formal eight-mat room facing an inner garden still hosts talks between silk wholesalers.
Okujun Misegura in Yuki, Ibaraki, is an earthen-walled shop of 1886 whose ridge tag records the exact day its frame was raised. It was registered in 2005.
Ogura Shoten Store and Main House stands among the earthen-walled shops of Yuki City, a timber townhouse of the early Meiji era showing its posts and beams outside.
Ozawa Family Residence Front Gate in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a mid-Meiji yakuimon gate 2.7 meters wide with wing walls, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.
Ozawa Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a plastered granary of 1871, 6.8 by 3.9 meters, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.
Ozawa Family Residence Main House in Miho Village, Ibaraki, is a mid-Meiji thatched farmhouse of 168 square meters, registered in 2009 and closed to visitors.
A late Meiji brick warehouse on the prefectural road in Koga City, 15 ken long and laid in English bond, built for the Iijima silk business and registered in 2004.
Located in the historic merchant district of Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Kinuya Pharmacy Store is a small but elegantly crafted two-story wooden misegura (storehouse-shop) from the mid-Meiji period. With its plastered side walls, gabled tile roof, and traditional shop front, it forms part of a remarkable cluster of registered cultural properties along the old textile-trading street, recognized in 2006 for its contribution to Japan's historic landscape.
A three-storey brick storehouse of 1910 on Hitachiota's Kujiragaoka, built for the Inada family, with pediments and black-plastered doors. Registered 2014.
Built in 1910 in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, Former Uwaoka Elementary School Building 1 keeps 4 classrooms off a north corridor and boarded walls. Free entry at weekends.
At Iwai in Bando City, the Former Otsuka Sake Brewery Shop and Main House dates from the middle Meiji era, and its floorboards were cut from sake vat lids.
Built in 1895 at Iwai in Bando City, the Former Otsuka Sake Brewery Main Storehouse covers 795 square meters, its hall carried on 10 larch-beamed pillars.
A mid-Meiji, 3-storey timber pavilion at Takabe in Hitachiomiya. Coloured glass and a sake signboard filled its top wall. Registered in 2022; open a few days a year.
The early Meiji main house behind the shop of the Onose premises in Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, registered in 2004, low and neatly proportioned.
A middle Meiji gate in Chikusei City, Ibaraki, facing the main house from the south. It is 2.5 meters across, thatched, and built without metal fittings.
The Former Kabaho Elementary School Building in Makabe, Sakuragawa City, is a mid-Meiji timber schoolhouse moved here in the Taisho era and registered in 2004.
The Former Kurokawa Rice Store in Yuki City is a 1912 earthen-walled merchant shop with a high ridge, outsized end tiles and a shopfront that opens end to end.
An early Meiji building in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, with a storehouse exterior, a hipped roof and tatami reception rooms in series inside. It covers 134 square meters.