Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Takeyama Family Residence Main House in Tenno-cho, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a two-story wooden dwelling built in 1937 and designed by Takeyama Kenzaburō. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it is admired for its shikoro-buki-style roof, clapboard exterior, and refined interior featuring carefully selected premium timbers.

The Chojiya Store in Maruko, Shizuoka, is a 1971 thatched teahouse on the old Tokaido, built with reused farmhouse timbers and inspired by Hiroshige's print.

The Choseikan Kobaiso in Fujieda is a 1933 pondside reception pavilion with pale pink plaster walls and plum-blossom motifs, true to its name of fragrant plum.

The Choseikan Main Building in Fujieda, built in 1939 for the inn that founded Shida Onsen, has a hip-and-gable porch and guest rooms finished with curved timbers.

The Tsurutani shop-house in Kakezuka, Iwata, built around 1884, keeps a projecting front lattice and bracketed eaves that recall the early Meiji town.

Built in 1937 for a mill owner in Iwata's velveteen-weaving Fukude district, this timber house was registered in 2013 with a warehouse now serving as a concert hall.

The Ichinomiyagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Fukuroi, built in 1940, joins a steel through girder and concrete spans in a gentle 40-metre curve.

The depot rest house at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940 behind the office, held a rest room, kitchenette and blueprint room for the engine depot crews.

The elevated water tank at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built about 1940, holds 70 tonnes on six concrete legs and once supplied the steam locomotives of the depot.

The depot office at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940 for the old Futamata engine depot, overlooks the yard through a tall front of large windows.

The depot pump house at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940 with a concrete well beside it, worked with the elevated tank to supply water for steam locomotives.

The depot bathhouse at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940 for steam locomotive crews, has a laundry, changing room and large and small tubs ringed by hot water.

Enshu-Mori Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Mori opened in 1935 and survives almost unaltered, with its carriage porch, wavy window glass and gate doors.

The Otagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Mori, built in 1935, curves over the Ota River on twelve steel spans, the longest bridge of the first section.

The platform shelter at Kanasashi Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, dated 1938 by the Agency and 1948 by the railway, rests on pairs of leaning posts.

The elevated water tank at Kanasashi Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built about 1938, carries a round, domed tank on four inward-leaning concrete columns.

The island platform at Gansuiji Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1940, has a shelter whose roof rests on five free-standing posts braced with rails.

The Kanda Tunnel on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Iwata, built in 1930 for the Komyo Electric Railway, is a 260-metre concrete bore with carefully modelled portals.

The platform at Kiga Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1938, carries a 36-metre timber shelter with an exposed truss recalling the line's busy days.

Kiga Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1938, has a red-tiled hipped roof, tiled trim and its original built-in benches and ticket gate.

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