Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1886, this two-storey building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, dries washi on boards upstairs, has a dryer room and once held a rest area.

Built in 1899, this building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, cleaned fiber downstairs and finished paper upstairs, both floors lit by rows of windows.

The Shinyosha Paper Mill Papermaking Building is a late-Meiji vat room in Echizen, Fukui: one 19 m room lit by continuous windows and still used to make paper.

This mid-Meiji building at Shinyosha Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui, held a boiler room below and a paper-glazing roller room above, where Meiji rollers survive.

Sugihara Shoten Front Gate is a late Taisho yakuimon gate, 2.3 meters wide, that fronts a washi merchant's compound in Echizen, Fukui. Registered in 2023.

Sugihara Shoten Main House is a 1925 washi merchant's home in Echizen, Fukui: a gable-entry house with eight rooms and lacquered posts, registered in 2023.

Sugihara Shoten Office is a 1933 storehouse-style office of a washi merchant in Echizen, Fukui, with four lattice windows facing the street; still in use today.

Sugihara Shoten West Storehouse is a large 1917 plastered store in Echizen, Fukui, converted in 2018 into the Washiya gallery and shop, open by reservation.

Sugihara Shoten Ossuary is a tiny 1931 reinforced concrete hall in Echizen, Fukui, with a pyramidal copper roof and posts and rafters modelled in concrete.

Sugihara Shoten East Storehouse is a 1921 two-story store for washi products in Echizen, Fukui, clad in boards up to its upper floor along the street.

Suya Taihekitei in Echizen, Fukui, is a thatched tea house of about 1931 in the garden of a restaurant inn, with a projecting room lit by round and other windows.

The larger of two storehouses at the Takinami house in Sabae, built around 1887: 15.2 m long, white lime plaster over a stone-faced base, stepped earthen shutters.

Built around 1887 on the old Hokuriku Kaido in Sabae, this townhouse pairs two tiers of projecting eaves and end firewalls with a Western-style rear. Registered 2013

A small 1887-era storehouse at the Takinami house in Sabae, 31 square meters, with black plaster cornices on white walls and a big balance-weight emblem on its door.

A one-storey reception wing behind the Takinami house in Sabae with an eight-mat room, tokonoma and log-trimmed eaves; called Rakushotei, it housed army commanders.

A granite lighthouse 6.0 metres across and 8.0 metres high, built in 1881 at the tip of the Tsuruga Peninsula, Fukui, and registered in 2017, crowned by a domed lantern.

The Tani Community Hall in Katsuyama, Fukui, a timber hall of 1953 with a half-hipped gable, a gabled porch and a louvred window, is the symbol of its village.

Tangando Soan in Fukui City, a domain physician's retreat of about 1846, joins a tea room to a storehouse finished in the sukiya manner with a boat-hull ceiling.

The Torihama Shuzo Chimney in Wakasa, Fukui, an English-bond brick chimney 13 metres high of the early Showa period, links underground to the brewery steamer.

The Torihama Shuzo Shop and Brewery in Wakasa, Fukui, built in 1920, is a storehouse brewery whose great stepped roof pairs with the brick chimney by the street.

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