Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Kawai Family Villa Gate and Wall in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, is a 1941 roofed gate and a 41-meter board fence with windows, the street face of a private villa.

The newest of six registered buildings on the Kitaokada estate in Ono, Gifu: a 1928 barn with a grain room and an earthen pickle room, plastered inside and out.

A 1904 plastered rice storehouse in Ono, Gifu, set on a tall cobblestone base after the 1896 flood. Registered in 2018; its walls are visible from the lane any day.

A 1916 landowner's house in Ono, Gifu: 432 m², 17 rooms, a 45 cm central pillar, skylights and lightning rods. Listed 2012; ground floor open free on set days.

A long 1905 storehouse in Ono, Gifu: two stores under one roof, one wagoya-framed, one with sloping beams, and a north wall of hooded windows seen from the lane.

The oldest building on the Kitaokada estate in Ono, Gifu: an early Meiji annex with a tea room and writing alcove, the only one older than the 1891 Nobi quake.

A late Taisho barn in Ono, Gifu, joined to the rice storehouse, with a stable, a carpenter's room and a miso room in a row and a firewood store under its east eave.

The former Suda dental clinic in Takayama, Gifu, a weatherboarded clinic and house of the late Taisho era, shows the taste for Western style among old townhouses.

Pseudo-Western clinic of 1904 in Gujo Hachiman, with an Ionic-columned porch, mortar corners imitating stone and pedimented sash windows. Open as a city museum.

Small two-storey X-ray building of the early Taisho period behind the former Hayashi Clinic in Gujo Hachiman, said to be the first X-ray facility in Gifu Prefecture.

House of 1838 moved in 2005 to Fukuji in Okuhida, Takayama: a 21-metre gabled building of hinoki cypress with projecting lattices and a formal entrance step.

Wooden clinic of 1920 in Gujo Hachiman with a washed-concrete front, overhanging upper floor, arched lower windows and plaster ornament on the porch brackets.

Built in 1941 in Mino City, Gifu Prefecture, the Former Mino-cho Industrial Hall is the city's largest surviving modern wooden building and a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. It features tile-clad lower walls, lap-board upper siding, decorative yoraku ornaments under the front eaves, and continuous horizontal window bands. Today it serves as the Mino Washi Akari Art Museum, displaying handmade washi paper lamp art year-round.

The Former Miyagawa Family Residence Main House is a thatched-roof mountain farmhouse rescued from Tokuyama Village before it was submerged by Japan's largest reservoir. Relocated to Gifu Prefectural Hundred-Year Park in Seki City and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, it preserves the architecture and atmosphere of a vanished village in western Mino.

Tucked beside Mino's historic washi-papermaking district in Gifu Prefecture, the Former Meitetsu Mino-machi Line Mino Station Platform and Tracks preserve a U-shaped 1923 terminal almost untouched since the line closed in 1999. Cobblestone platform walls, L-section steel canopies, and original 1919 Carnegie rails survive intact, joined by three vintage streetcars and the wooden station building. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property with free admission, the site is a charming starting point for exploring the Udatsu townscape and Mino's UNESCO-recognized handmade paper heritage.

Standing almost untouched since 1923, the Former Meitetsu Mino-machi Line Mino Station in Gifu Prefecture is one of Japan's most evocative railway time capsules. The pale pink wooden station, U-shaped platforms, original Carnegie-made tracks, and three preserved streetcars all remain exactly as they were when the line closed in 1999. Lovingly maintained by a volunteer society and designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, the site is freely open to visitors and lies just three minutes on foot from Mino-shi Station, making it the perfect first stop on a walk through the city's famous Udatsu historic townscape.

A 1926 earthen-walled fermenting hall at a Yoro sake brewery in Gifu, 10 by 6 bays, with a former koji room upstairs and a wide floor for rows of tubs below.

A 1926 annexe to a Yoro sake brewery's fermenting hall in Gifu, pairing a Japanese-style inspection room with a Western-style tax office from liquor tax's heyday.

A 1924 sake shop beside the main house of a Yoro brewery in Gifu, 5.8 metres wide, its upper front in black plaster matching the house; shop in front, store behind.

A 1926 shed where a Yoro brewery in Gifu washed and steamed its rice: open on two sides, with a belt pulley still on its king post truss, smallest of seven listed.