Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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Rebuilt around 1937 on ground above the village it serves, the Shiizakai station building keeps a plain sheet-metal roof and decoration at just two points.
Built for the opening of the Mikuni Awara Electric Railway in December 1928, the Honjo station building keeps its off-centre porch and original entrance decoration.
The second station building at Matsuoka, put up around 1933, carries a steep half-hipped roof, a round window in the gable and posts cut from disused rail.
At the edge of Fukui City, this 1928 station building uses rail as posts under its porch and canopy, and is said to have survived the Fukui earthquake of 1948.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 53 m², with plaster-framed windows and deep eaves on angled braces for heavy snow; registered in 2018.
A single-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 30 m², on the estate's southwest corner by the road, its deep eaves on angled braces; registered in 2018.
A 2-storey house of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, with a shikidai entrance and a reception room of nageshi rails and batten ceiling; once board-roofed, registered in 2018.
A single-storey guest wing of 1919 to 1926 in Ono, Fukui, linked to the main house, with a slanted red-pine alcove post and a deep garden eave; registered 2018.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 24 m², boarded below and plastered above, with just two small gable windows to guard food; registered 2018.
A wooden, tile-roofed gate of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 2.9 m wide, standing beside the miso storehouse on the estate's street front; registered as heritage in 2018.
The former Owada Bank head office building in Tsuruga, Fukui, a timber bank of 1901, has a Western front with a parapet and tall windows that shapes the street.
The former Kyoto Dento branch office in Takahama, Fukui, a timber building of 1931 in beige mortar, has a symmetrical front with a balcony and arched windows.
The Tsuruga Warehouse Shinko Warehouses of 1933 at the centre of Tsuruga Port are concrete stores whose canopies and tiled corner echo the International Style.
The Former Nakanata Post Office in the hills of Obama, Fukui, is a timber post office of about 1936 with painted clapboard, a gabled porch and a tatami room above.
A 1905 brick oil warehouse in Tsuruga with pilasters outside and flat inner walls for stacking crates, now the diorama hall of the Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse.
A 1905 brick oil warehouse in Tsuruga with English bond walls, original iron doors and a column-free queen post truss interior, now a restaurant hall.
A brick wall of around 1905 enclosing three sides of an oil depot in Tsuruga, 2.5 m high and 92 m long, laid in English bond with buttresses and a corbelled top.
The Former Negishi Family Residence Front Gate in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Showa timber gate 3.9 metres wide, set past a waterway bridge, with a lavatory added.
The Former Negishi Family Residence Main House in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Meiji gable-entry house 16 metres wide with big udatsu walls rising at front and back.
The Former Negishi Family Residence Storehouse in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Showa kura, plastered on the west and boarded on its other sides, registered in 2011.
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