List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture explained
Appointed governors
- Yamaoka Tesshū 1871
- Yamaguchi Tadasada 1872
- Nomura Motosuke 1872
- Toru Watanabe 1872-1873
- Seki Shinpei 1873-1875
- Unknown 1875-1877
- Tatsutaro Nomura 1877-1880
- Hitomi Katsutaro 1880-1885
- Shima 1885-1886
- Sadanori Yasuda 1886-1891
- Shoichiro Ishii 1891-1892
- Nobuaki Makino 1892-1893
- Chikaaki Takasaki 1893-1896
- Egi Kazuyuki 1896-1897
- Motohiro Onoda 1897-1898
- Kiyoshi Honba 1898-1899
- Fumi Kashiwada 1899-1900
- Kono Chuzo 1900-1903
- Teru Terahara 1903-1906
- Otsuka 1906-1907
- Mori Masataka 1907-1908
- Keisuke Sakanaka 1912-1917
- Yūichirō Chikaraishi 1917-1921
- Genjiro Moriya 1921-1923
- Shohei Fujinuma 1923-1924
- Tsugino Daisaburo 1924-1925
- Kaiichiro Suematsu 1925-1926
- Kihachiro Ito 1926-1927
- Sanosuke 1927
- Jiro Morioka 1927-1929
- Shozo Ushijima 1929-1931
- Tanaka 1931
- Seikichi Kimishima 1931-1932
- Abe Kashichi 1932-1935
- Ando Kyoushirou 1935-1937
- Nobuo Hayashi 1937-1938
- Shigeru Hamaza 1938-1939
- Tokitsugi Yoshinaga 1939-1941
- Kanichi Naito 1941-1942
- Tsujiyama 1942-1943
- Sieve Yoshimi 1943-1944
- Hisashi Imai 1944-1945
- Masami Hashimoto 1945
Elected governors
- Yōji Tomosue 1945-1959
- Nirō Iwakami 1959-1975
- Fujio Takeuchi 1975-1993
- Masaru Hashimoto 1993-2017
- Kazuhiko Ōigawa 2017-
