Meiji

The largest culvert on the old line, built around 1896 in Tsuruga, Fukui: a steep stone-and-brick passage about 20 m below the track that carried a stream.

Up four stone steps from the street stands the front gate of the Yamakawa residence in Obama, a three-bay ridged gate with plaster wing walls, about 5.1 metres long.

Rebuilt in 1907 on an older samurai plan, the main house of the Yamakawa residence in Obama joins a formal shikidai entrance to a banker's dignity, poet Tomiko's home.

Beside the path to the main house, the middle gate of the Yamakawa residence opens to the north garden, just 1.5 metres wide, the smallest of five registered structures.

At the northwest corner of the Yamakawa compound stands a two-story earthen storehouse, its plaster walls faced with tall boarding and its windows shut by iron doors.

The detached room is the only one of the Yamakawa residence's five registered structures listed as a model of design; poet Tomiko died in its eight-mat room in 1909.

The former Kagetsuro restaurant of 1904 in central Katsuyama, Fukui, joins two wings of tatami rooms and keeps a 32-mat banquet hall with an umbrella-ribbed ceiling.

The Nishikokura dam of about 1902 at Minamiechizen, Fukui, a stone erosion control dam of huge stacked boulders in a narrow valley, still guards the village below.

The Saito Family Residence Shed in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1909 outbuilding 13 metres long and 2.0 metres deep that screens the entrance court from the garden.

The Saito Family Residence Gateposts in Sabae, Fukui, are late Meiji posts of Shakudani tuff, 3.1 metres tall, facing the old Hokuriku Road. Registered 2016.

Late Meiji house at the core of a businessman's estate in Maruoka, Fukui, moved in 1923, with a gabled porch and an upstairs room under a bent coffered ceiling.

A 1910 townhouse on the old Hokkoku highway in Sabae, Fukui, once the office of Sakai Shōten (now Sakai Ovex), with a lattice front, a strongroom and plaster above.

An early Meiji kagura-date townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui: a gable-entered block behind a side-entered front, with fine lattices and wing walls, in the old port streets.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Sabae, Fukui, said to date from 1891 when Sakai Shōten was founded, with a Shakudani stone base and original namako tilework on one wall.

An early Meiji storehouse behind a townhouse in Mikuni, Fukui, with tall walls sealed but for one small window and a passage under its lean-to to the river.

An early Meiji cargo storehouse at the back of a Mikuni townhouse plot in Fukui, with a passage to a back door and a weatherboarded gable facing the Kuzuryū River.

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.