Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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A c.1924 office beside the Morihide factory in Kiryu, later used for warping, with a truss roof, glazed doors and a former boiler lean-to. Registered 2006.
A sawtooth weaving shed of 1946 at the Morihide works in Kiryu, extended around 1952, keeping central posts and loom pulleys; now the Yukari museum exhibition room.
A c.1924 warping shed at the Morihide works in Kiryu, with gabled ends, a sawtooth middle and gable boards cut in a sawtooth edge; now the museum exhibition hall.
A c.1924 two-story storehouse at the Morihide works in Kiryu with symmetrical windows, said to have held raw silk; now the Orikura gallery of the Yukari museum.
A c.1924 yarn-twisting room at the Morihide works in Kiryu, with wooden lattice windows, weatherboarded walls and plaster inside; now the museum study room.
A c.1924 shed at the Morihide works in Kiryu, built to store Jacquard pattern cards: two narrow ranges about 3 m deep joined at a bend, with a concrete east wall.
A c.1924 timber weaving shed in the southeast corner of the Morihide works in Kiryu, with a three-bay sawtooth roof and original south mortar wall. Registered 2006.
Four timber storeys raised in stages from 1921, the West Wing of Yokotekan keeps fourteen guest rooms of choice timber and fine transom work, no two of them alike.
Built in 1920, the year fire cleared the site, the East Wing of Yokotekan ranges glass windows and rafter-lined eaves in horizontal bands above Ikaho's stone steps.
Reception house of 1927 of an oil-merchant family in Takasaki, Gunma, moved in 1990, lavished with inlay, lacquer and carving; a modern Japanese-style landmark.
Small steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Kiryu, Gunma, one of the largest standard I-beam spans of its era, near the Kojise Gorge.
Up platform of Omama Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, a 107-metre stone platform of 1911 with squared-stone walls and a late Meiji look.
Omama Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a white-walled timber building of 1941 and a 73-metre stone platform of 1911 with a 1929 canopy.
Steel bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at the Oguro and Watarase confluence in Gunma, 54 metres long, with three girders sized to its midstream piers.
Kamikanbai Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a timber country station of 1912 with office, waiting room and a rare wooden ticket barrier.
Tiny steel bridge of 1936 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Hanawa in Midori, Gunma, with a standard trough girder holding the rails low between two beams.
Tiny brick store of 1912 for lamp oil on the platform at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, one of only three such stores on the line.
Timber staff rest house of 1928 at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, with a six-mat room, forming one group with the station building.
Curving stone platform of 1912 at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, 107 metres long, with split-stone and cobble walls in original form.
Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma: a largely intact 1912 standard station with a points lever house and the line's longest platform.
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