Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Discover Daikokuya Ryokan in Hosokute-juku, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. This 1859 inn once served as the Owari Domain's designated honjin on the historic Nakasendo highway, and still welcomes guests today.

The Main Hall of Teishoji Temple in Kakamigahara, Gifu, was commissioned in 1933 by Kawakami Sadayakko, recognized as Japan's first modern actress. A traditional cypress-built five-bay hall raised on an inventive reinforced-concrete podium, its side and rear walls bear eight relief panels depicting the founder's personal experiences of divine protection. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property.

Located on Honmachi Street in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Tengu Sohonten is a wooden two-story butcher shop built in 1936 and designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Crowned with delicate spires, decorated with a long-nosed tengu motif, and graced by an elegant corner veranda, this Western-influenced storefront stands in striking contrast to the traditional townscape that surrounds it. Built by local Hida master carpenter Nishida Kiyoshi, the building remains an active Hida beef specialty shop and offers visitors a rare glimpse of pre-war Showa architectural experimentation in regional Japan.

Discover the Nagaya Seizaemon Residence in Seki, Gifu — a registered tangible cultural property dating back to the 17th century. This grand shoya dwelling reveals Edo-period rural life in the mountains of northern Mino.

Step onto a graceful curving cobblestone platform at Gujo-Hachiman Station, where a 1932 wooden waiting room and a 40-meter canopy built from recycled rails preserve the atmosphere of Japan's early Showa-era rural railways.

Inside Gujō-Hachiman Station in Gifu Prefecture stands a rare wooden footbridge built in 1944 during the final years of World War II, when steel was severely rationed. Its Howe truss design—wooden diagonals paired with slender steel rod verticals—reflects the constraints of the era. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2015, the footbridge remains in everyday service and pairs perfectly with a stroll through the historic castle town of Gujō-Hachiman.

Located in Gujō City, Gifu Prefecture, the Nagaragawa Railway Gujō-Hachiman Station is a wooden depot that opened in 1929 as the terminus of the former Etsumi-Nansen Line. With its gable-roofed main building finished in washed-out artificial stone rendering and its 98-meter cobblestone up-bound platform, the station preserves the appearance of an early-Showa provincial terminal and was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2015. Restored to its 1929 appearance in 2017, it still serves as the gateway to the castle town of Gujō-Hachiman and houses a tourist information desk, café and souvenir shop.

Built in 1929 within Gujo-Hachiman Station in Gifu Prefecture, this small wooden storage and lever shed preserves four iron signal levers in their original positions—an exceptionally rare survivor of pre-electric railway signaling. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2015, it offers a quiet but evocative glimpse of early Showa railway heritage and serves as the gateway to the beautiful castle town of Gujo-Hachiman.

Step onto a 98-meter stone platform built in 1923 and shelter in a small wooden waiting room beside rails of the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino City, Gifu. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, this Taisho-era station preserves the atmosphere of Japan's pre-war local railways and serves as the perfect entrance to Mino's famed "Udatsu" merchant townscape and washi paper culture.

Built in 1923 as the terminus of the Etsumi-Nan Line, this 24-metre-wide, 189-square-metre wooden station building still serves passengers more than a century later. Registered as a national heritage in 2013, it pairs naturally with a walk through Mino's Udatsu townscape.

A brick aqueduct bridge in Mino, Gifu, carrying part of the 4.9-kilometre headrace of the Nagaragawa Power Plant, in operation since 1910. One of nine Registered Tangible Cultural Properties in the plant complex, the bridge shows late-Meiji Japan absorbing European hydroelectric engineering through local brick and granite craftsmanship.

Built in 1910, this intake on the middle Nagara River in Gujo City still feeds Japan's oldest hydroelectric installation on the river. Five segmental arches with granite voussoirs and an English-bond brick wall mark a key Meiji-era industrial heritage site.

Built in 1910, this brick gate (5.5 m wide, 2.4 m high) features granite-capped pillars and flared brick steps facing the Nagara River. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2000 and designated Modernization Industrial Heritage in 2007, it still serves as the working entrance to one of Japan's earliest hydroelectric plants.

A 1.2-meter Flemish-bond brick fence with five buttresses, raised in 1910 around Japan's first Nagaragawa River hydroelectric plant. A working piece of Meiji-era industrial heritage in Mino, Gifu, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2000.

Tucked into the mountains of Mino City, Gifu Prefecture, the Nagaragawa Power Station No. 1 Settling Basin Waterproof Wall is a 1910 Registered Tangible Cultural Property still in active service. Its roughly pentagonal, 60-meter brick-and-cobblestone enclosure—punctuated by four elegant semicircular arched gates—regulates the water that powers Gifu's first hydroelectric station. Discover this quiet jewel of Meiji-era engineering heritage along the Nagara River.

Built in 1910, this short brick-and-stone arched culvert lies on the power station's conduit. A granite portal and iron gate flush trapped silt from the settling basin.

Built in 1910, the Hidani Aqueduct Bridge carries the Nagara River Power Station's conduit across a valley, its curving five-arch span holding an English-bond channel.

Finished in 1910 as Nagoya's first power plant, the Nagara River Power Station main building still runs today, its brick gable joining a rose window with onigawara tiles.

Built in 1910, the Yunohoradani Aqueduct Bridge is the longest of the station's brick water bridges. Granite springers carry six-course arches beside a mountain road.

Built around 1910, the Spillway Crossing Bridge is a small reinforced-concrete arch by the station's head tank, among the earliest concrete bridges in the Chubu region.