Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Taisho guest wing of the Senzairo inn at Yoro Park, built out on stilts, with red-plastered sukiya rooms named after plants and a three-storey moon-viewing platform.

Inn of 1859 at Hosokute-juku on the Nakasendo in Mizunami, Gifu, once the Owari domain's inn, with udatsu firewalls and a black-plastered front; still open.

The Teishoji Temple Inari Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a small 1933 gable-front hall with a three-sided veranda, exposed posts and a carved frog-leg strut.

The Teishoji Temple Priests' Quarters in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 temple residence with a curved-gable porch, a 16-mat hall and finely carved transoms.

The Teishoji Temple Shoin in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 sitting room with a bark-covered cherry alcove post, woven ceiling and walls of shoji and glass.

The Teishoji Temple Purification House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 5-square-metre open pavilion of 1933 with inward-leaning posts and carved gable struts.

The Teishoji Temple Treasure House in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 concrete store styled like a log storehouse, now the Sadayakko Engikan with a glass ceiling.

The Teishoji Temple Main Hall in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 cypress hall on a raised concrete stage, ringed by 8 panels carved with Sadayakko's miracle stories.

The Teishoji Temple Gate in Kakamigahara, Gifu, is a 1933 eight-legged gate with guardian kings, close-set brackets, fanned rafters and carved transoms.

The Tengu Main Store in Takayama, Gifu, built in 1936 as a butcher's on a corner, has a Western-style front with a balcony, pinnacles and a tengu gable ornament.

A headman's house in Itadori, Seki, Gifu, believed by the Agency for Cultural Affairs to date to the 17th century, its low roof once cedar bark. Registered 2003.

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.

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