Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1.2-meter Flemish-bond brick fence with five buttresses, raised in 1910 around Japan's first Nagaragawa River hydroelectric plant. A working piece of Meiji-era industrial heritage in Mino, Gifu, registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2000.

Tucked into the mountains of Mino City, Gifu Prefecture, the Nagaragawa Power Station No. 1 Settling Basin Waterproof Wall is a 1910 Registered Tangible Cultural Property still in active service. Its roughly pentagonal, 60-meter brick-and-cobblestone enclosure—punctuated by four elegant semicircular arched gates—regulates the water that powers Gifu's first hydroelectric station. Discover this quiet jewel of Meiji-era engineering heritage along the Nagara River.

Built in 1910, this short brick-and-stone arched culvert lies on the power station's conduit. A granite portal and iron gate flush trapped silt from the settling basin.

Built in 1910, the Hidani Aqueduct Bridge carries the Nagara River Power Station's conduit across a valley, its curving five-arch span holding an English-bond channel.

Finished in 1910 as Nagoya's first power plant, the Nagara River Power Station main building still runs today, its brick gable joining a rose window with onigawara tiles.

Built in 1910, the Yunohoradani Aqueduct Bridge is the longest of the station's brick water bridges. Granite springers carry six-course arches beside a mountain road.

Built around 1910, the Spillway Crossing Bridge is a small reinforced-concrete arch by the station's head tank, among the earliest concrete bridges in the Chubu region.

Rebuilt after Takayama's fire of 1892, this large timber machiya sets its second storey back half a ken behind slatted itarenji screens. Registered in 2017.

A late Edo storehouse behind a Takayama tea shop, a century older than the building on the street. Its okiyane roof and inward-leaning posts show an older manner.

Gifu Park's Nawa Insect Museum is a brick hall of 1919 by Takeda Goichi, the first registered property in Gifu Prefecture. Three Toshodaiji columns stand inside.

The kitchen of Nangu Taisha's Saikan in Tarui, Gifu (c. 1961). It cooked the food for wedding banquets, each of its two rooms split between board floor and earthen floor.

The corridor of Nangu Taisha's Saikan in Tarui, Gifu (c. 1961). It wraps the south garden and links the two main wings, its west face set with lattice windows.

The North Building of Nangu Taisha's Saikan in Tarui, Gifu, built around 1961. Its upstairs west room holds a wedding altar and coffered ceiling; registered in 2024.

The South Building of Nangu Taisha's Saikan in Tarui, Gifu (c. 1961). It held guest rooms and a priests' purification bath, with transoms carved in plum and bamboo.

The Nigataki Daiichi Sabo Dam of 1949 in Nakatsugawa is a gravity check dam 26 metres long and 5 metres high, built of dry-laid dressed stone. Registered in 2006.

Built in 1906 as Akechi's sixth town hall, the Nihon Taisho-mura Village Office in Ena has a Tuscan-columned porch. Registered in 2000, and free to enter.

The Niwa Family Residence Main House of 1930 stands on a corner of the old Nakasendo at Unuma-juku, Kakamigahara, registered in 2006 for its streetscape value.

The Storehouse of the Hanada-Imai Residence in Mimayano, Gero, dates to about 1875. A two-storey plaster dozo, plain in form but carefully finished around its front door.

The Hanada-Imai Main House in Mimayano, Gero, began in 1829. Its earthen-floor side became a Western clinic and its upper floor is thought to have raised silkworms.

At the Hanada-Imai Residence in Mimayano, Gero, one early-Showa building combines a watermill, a miso store and a shed. A rare survival showing how a large farm worked.