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Tsukamoto Family Residence Storehouse
Ibaraki 大正
Tsukamoto Family Residence Storehouse

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 (Former Hirano Family Rear Storehouse)
Ibaraki 大正
Tenkoku Art Museum Rear Storehouse (Former Hirano Family Rear Storehouse)

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.

Tenkoku Art Museum Front Storehouse (Former Hirano Family Front Storehouse)
Ibaraki 大正
Tenkoku Art Museum Front Storehouse (Former Hirano Family Front Storehouse)

Built of Oya stone in 1920, Tenkoku Art Museum Front Storehouse rises 3 storeys on a 28.92 square meter plan in Koga, Ibaraki, and holds Exhibition Rooms 1 and 2.

Tokuda Power Plant Water Intake Station
Ibaraki 大正
Tokuda Power Plant Water Intake Station

Built in 1926 on the Satogawa, the Tokuda Power Plant Water Intake Station takes water at a weir 12 meters long and 2.0 meters high, 2 kilometers above the plant.

Tokuda Power Plant Outfall Channel
Ibaraki 大正
Tokuda Power Plant Outfall Channel

The Tokuda Power Plant Outfall Channel of 1926 returns water to the Satogawa along 34 meters of open channel walled in diagonal tanizumi cut stonework.

Tokuda Power Plant Main Building
Ibaraki 大正
Tokuda Power Plant Main Building

Completed in 1926 on the upper Satogawa, the Tokuda Power Plant Main Building is an 81-square-meter timber powerhouse, registered in 2004 and still running.

Tokuda Power Plant Spillway
Ibaraki 大正
Tokuda Power Plant Spillway

Built in 1926, the Tokuda Power Plant Spillway carries surplus water from the head tank to the Satogawa through 23 meters of culvert and 231 meters of open channel.

Nakamura Family Main Building
Ibaraki 大正
Nakamura Family Main Building

The Nakamura main house in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is the 1913 living wing behind a merchant's storefront warehouse, a refined timber home raised by a local carpenter.

Nakamura Family Residence and Storehouse
Ibaraki 大正
Nakamura Family Residence and Storehouse

The Nakamura storefront warehouse in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1913 two-story misegura, its open lower front facing the street below a clapboard-clad upper floor.

Nisui Hall (former Mizukaido Town Hall)
Ibaraki 大正
Nisui Hall (former Mizukaido Town Hall)

Nisui Kaikan, the former Mitsukaido Town Hall in Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1913. This charming pseudo-Western wooden building cleverly appears two-storied despite being single-story, blending Japanese craftsmanship with Western aesthetics. Discover this architectural gem that reflects the prosperity of a Taisho-era river-trading town.

Numajiri Family Row House
Ibaraki 大正
Numajiri Family Row House

The Numajiri row building in Kaneda, Tsukuba, is a two-story early-Taisho structure (1912-1925), a workshop below and a silkworm room above, now used as a shop.

Hananukigawa No. 1 Power Station No. 3 Waterway Bridge
Ibaraki 大正
Hananukigawa No. 1 Power Station No. 3 Waterway Bridge

Discover the Megane Bridge in Takahagi, Ibaraki — a reinforced-concrete double-arch aqueduct built in 1918 that still carries water for hydroelectric power. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and JSCE Heritage of Civil Engineering set amid the scenic Hananuki Gorge.

Valor Chimney
Ibaraki 大正
Valor Chimney

The brick chimney of the Buyu brewery in Yuki, Ibaraki. A Taisho-era structure about 11 metres tall, linked underground to the kettle room. A Registered Property.

Hosaka Family Main House
Ibaraki 大正
Hosaka Family Main House

The Hosaka Family Main House in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a single-storey Taisho house of 140 sq m facing the family's Buyu sake brewery. Registered 2011; exterior only.

Hosaka Family Storehouse
Ibaraki 大正
Hosaka Family Storehouse

The Hosaka Family Storehouse in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a 20-square-metre kura of 1922, dated by an ink inscription naming its carpenter. Registered 2011; exterior only.

Murai Brewery Stone Warehouse
Ibaraki 大正
Murai Brewery Stone Warehouse

The Murai Brewery Stone Warehouse, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2000, is a remarkable Taishō-era stone building (1912–1925) in the heart of Makabe, Sakuragawa City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Combining a timber king-post truss frame with Ōya stone exterior walls, this 21.6-meter-long structure remains an active part of one of Japan's oldest sake breweries, founded in the late 17th century and producing the renowned 'Kōmei' label.

Inlet Power Plant Water Tank
Okayama 大正
Inlet Power Plant Water Tank

Discover the Iri Power Station Water Tank, a reinforced concrete structure from 1920, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in Kagamino, Okayama. Explore the oldest surviving hydroelectric facility on the Yoshii River.

Retaining Walls of the Penstock and Main Building at Iri Power Station
Okayama 大正
Retaining Walls of the Penstock and Main Building at Iri Power Station

Discover the Iri Power Station Penstock Retaining Wall and Main Building Retaining Wall, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kagamino Town, Okayama. Built in 1920, these cobblestone retaining walls support Okayama's oldest surviving hydroelectric power station along the Yoshii River.

Main Building of the Power Station
Okayama 大正
Main Building of the Power Station

The Iri Power Station Main Building, nestled in the mountains of Kagamino Town, Okayama Prefecture, is a wooden hydroelectric plant building constructed in 1920 during the Taisho era. As the oldest surviving power station on the Yoshii River system, it has operated continuously for over a century and was registered as a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2006. With its king post truss roof structure and copper-clad gabled roof, it preserves the distinctive character of Taisho-era industrial architecture.

Okayama Former Bank of Japan Hall (former Bank of Japan Okayama Branch Main Building)
Okayama 大正
Okayama Former Bank of Japan Hall (former Bank of Japan Okayama Branch Main Building)

Okayama Former Bank of Japan Hall, built in 1922 by Nagano Uheiji, carries a Corinthian portico in granite. It survived the 1945 air raid and is now a concert hall.