Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Miyakodagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1940, crosses a valley on tall round piers more than 14 metres above the water.
The Riki Tunnel on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1936 between Hamamatsu and Kosai, is the line's longest at 663 metres and keeps its 14 refuge niches.
The Tokaido Headman's House in Yui, Shizuoka, is the late Meiji home of the Koike family, village headmen for generations, now open to visitors as the Koike-tei.
The storehouse of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, a concrete store of 1946 built onto the tea house for works of art, has plastered walls and artificial-stone trim.
The main gate of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1933, is a gabled gate of polished logs with a tiled roof bordered in copper, sliding doors and a wicket.
The tea house of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, a guest house of 1940, has a large-hearth room whose rough beams and bamboo ceiling give it the look of a farmhouse.
The detached wing of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, a reception wing of about 1935, uses logs of many woods and boat-bottom and woven ceilings in the sukiya style.
The annex of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1940, staggers its rooms toward the sea and has a Zangetsu-style alcove, sukiya touches and rustic hewn beams.
The main building of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1933 as a banker's villa above Sagami Bay, has slender sukiya timbers and large windows facing the sea.
The storage shed of Tozanso in Atami, Shizuoka, built in 1933, has a store half sunk into the slope and a matted room above, recalling the upkeep of the villa.
Registered in August 2024, five months after the house behind it, this concrete gate and 34-metre glazed-tile wall are the part of the property the street sees.
Completed in 1915 to enshrine an Amida once owned by Emperor Kokaku, this earthen-walled hall in Shizuoka carries plaster-relief guardians by Morita Kakudo.
Moved to Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu in 1885 from an inn on the Tokaido highway, this residence keeps the raised room and antechamber prepared for the Meiji emperor.
Completed in 1935 at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this hall honours the founder behind folding doors and cusped windows, its brackets set in a continuous Zen row.
Built in the middle Meiji years at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this 32-square-metre hall is an open-fronted earthen stage facing the guardian shrine of Hansobo.
Standing west of the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this Meiji hall of 17 square metres carries a pyramidal tiled roof and houses an image of Kannon.
Raised in 1923 on a summit at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this timber pagoda carries triple-stepped brackets and draws business people praying against insolvency.
Joined to the great kitchen wing at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this late Taisho guest building of 524 square metres sets two tiled ranges side by side.
Rebuilt in 1953 on the approach path at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this two-storey gate carries bracketing that changes between its lower and upper levels.
Attached to the Main Hall at Hokoji Temple in Hamamatsu, this duty room of about 1915 carries the corridor that ties the hall to the kitchen wing beside it.
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