Meiji
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A single-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 30 m², on the estate's southwest corner by the road, its deep eaves on angled braces; registered in 2018.
A 2-storey house of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, with a shikidai entrance and a reception room of nageshi rails and batten ceiling; once board-roofed, registered in 2018.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 24 m², boarded below and plastered above, with just two small gable windows to guard food; registered 2018.
A wooden, tile-roofed gate of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 2.9 m wide, standing beside the miso storehouse on the estate's street front; registered as heritage in 2018.
The former Owada Bank head office building in Tsuruga, Fukui, a timber bank of 1901, has a Western front with a parapet and tall windows that shapes the street.
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 Main House in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Meiji gable-entry house 16 metres wide with big udatsu walls rising at front and back.
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.
The longest tunnel on the old line, 1,170 m and dead straight, completed in 1896 near the summit above Tsuruga, lined in brick and dug through hard, wet rock.
The northernmost structure of the old line, a 368 m tunnel of about 1895 near Imajo, Fukui, built by a Morioka firm with local bricks and a grand north portal.