Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

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.

The Former Wakasaya Inn in Minamiechizen, Fukui, is a late Edo inn in the Imajo post town on the Hokkoku Kaido, with a latticed front and guest rooms upstairs.

The Former Furukawaya Sobei House in Obama, Fukui, a shipping merchant's townhouse of 1865 with street lattices and plastered side walls, is a rare Edo survivor.

A straight 223 m railway tunnel of 1894 in Tsuruga, Fukui, lined in brick behind cut-stone portals and built by local firms with government-supplied materials.

A curving 467 m brick tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui. Its builders changed several times before Kajima-gumi finished it; dressed stone marks the portals.

Completed in 1893, this straight 87 m tunnel near Tsuruga Station was the first on the old line to Imajo, built by engineer Ota Rokuro wholly in brick, portals too.

A curving 401 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, with stone walls, a brick arch and refuges every 40 m, likely built by local firms new to railway work.

A short curving 1894 tunnel in Tsuruga, Fukui, with Edo-giri andesite portals and stone-arched refuges, opening the densest run of tunnels on the climb.

A curving 310 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, a near-twin of its neighbour, with railway-era wiring fittings still fixed at the base of its brick arch.

A 979 m tunnel of 1896 in Tsuruga, Fukui, dug through hard rock and a flood with early compressed-air drills, behind grand portals that once bore Kuroda plaques.

The shortest surviving tunnel on the old line, 64 m and straight, built around 1895 in Tsuruga by local firms; its north portal crest slopes with the hill.

A curving 260 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, its stone walls under a brick arch neatly laid with government-issued bricks by a local builder.