Taishō
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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, a stone warehouse of 1920 in Koga, Ibaraki, shows an exposed king post truss and a roof monitor over Exhibition Rooms 3 to 5.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, built in 1922 by Nagano Uheiji, carries a Corinthian portico in granite. It survived the 1945 air raid and is now a concert hall.