Taishō
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Built in 1916 in the central shopping street of Daigo Town, Ibaraki, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property combines a two-story gabled shop section with a single-story hipped residential wing. Today it operates as daigo cafe, just a three-minute walk from Hitachi-Daigo Station.
Built in 1912 in the heart of Daigo Town, Ibaraki Prefecture, the Daigo Cafe Dozo is a two-story earthen storehouse registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Highlights include the striking contrast between its white and black plaster, and the namako-kabe lattice tiling along its gable skirts — both products of skilled traditional craftsmanship. Today the dozo serves as part of the beloved 'daigo cafe,' where visitors can enjoy dishes featuring Okukuji apples, wasabi, and shamo chicken. Combined with attractions such as Fukuroda Falls, it offers an unforgettable taste of the history and food culture of the Okukuji region.
Built at Oarai in 1917, the house joined a German-sided Western clinic wing to a Japanese living wing. Registered in 2005, privately owned, viewable from the street.
Built in 1924 behind a shop-storehouse on Kamijuku-dori in Makabe, this hipped-roof wooden house of 147 square metres was registered as a cultural property in 2004.
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.
The former Mitsukaido town office in Joso, Ibaraki, built in 1913, is a symmetrical single-storey timber building made to look like two storeys, now a library annex.
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.
A twin-arch reinforced concrete aqueduct of 1918 in Takahagi, Ibaraki, still carrying water to a power station; its two arches earn it the name Megane, spectacles.
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 Miwa Family Residence Main House is a 49-square-meter timber wing behind a Makabe shopfront, where a 6-mat sitting room leads back to a formal 8-mat guest room.