Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gifu

Built in 1921, the Kuwadani No. 2 Erosion-Control Dam stands 6.4 metres tall and 26 metres wide in a tributary of the Miyagawa River in Hida City, Gifu. Its mortared stonework, paired with the matching Dam No. 1 just downstream, forms a cascading pair registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2019.

Discover Shirakawa Bridge, a rare Taisho-period steel suspension bridge spanning the Hida River in Shirakawa Town, Gifu. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property and a JSCE Civil Engineering Heritage site, this century-old pedestrian bridge offers scenic views and a glimpse into Japan's modern engineering history.

Discover Sumiyoshi Ryokan in Takayama, Gifu — a Taishō-era pawnshop turned traditional inn registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2024. Experience Hida craftsmanship, antique treasures, and local cuisine steps from the Miyagawa Morning Market.

Discover the Sumiyoshi Ryokan Kitchen Wing, a Taisho-period miso storehouse registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Located in Takayama, Gifu, this earthen storehouse preserves the traditional architecture and alley townscape of historic Hida Takayama.

Discover the Sumiyoshi Ryokan Dozō, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. Originally built as a pawnshop storehouse in the Taisho period, this two-story earthen-walled kura features remarkable kakeko-nuri doors decorated with black lacquer plaster, showcasing exceptional traditional plastering craftsmanship.

Discover Chitosero Seiho-kaku, a registered tangible cultural property within the historic Senzairou ryokan in Yoro, Gifu. Built in the Taisho era with design elements by renowned Japanese painter Takeuchi Seiho, this sukiya-style building features silk paintings on the ceiling and Mondrian-like kumiko woodwork.

Discover Senzairo, a historic ryokan established in 1764 near legendary Yoro Falls in Gifu Prefecture. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property, its Meiji-era main building offers exquisite sukiya-zukuri architecture, Hida beef cuisine, and rooms once graced by Japan's greatest cultural figures.

Discover Chitoserou Ryuhokaku, a registered tangible cultural property within the historic Chitoserou ryokan in Yoro, Gifu. Built in the Taisho era with elegant red-plastered walls and refined sukiya-style guest rooms, this wing is part of a 260-year-old inn near the legendary Yoro Falls.

Discover Daikokuya Ryokan in Hosokute-juku, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. This 1859 inn once served as the Owari Domain's designated honjin on the historic Nakasendo highway, and still welcomes guests today.

The Main Hall of Teishoji Temple in Kakamigahara, Gifu, was commissioned in 1933 by Kawakami Sadayakko, recognized as Japan's first modern actress. A traditional cypress-built five-bay hall raised on an inventive reinforced-concrete podium, its side and rear walls bear eight relief panels depicting the founder's personal experiences of divine protection. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property.

Located on Honmachi Street in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Tengu Sohonten is a wooden two-story butcher shop built in 1936 and designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan. Crowned with delicate spires, decorated with a long-nosed tengu motif, and graced by an elegant corner veranda, this Western-influenced storefront stands in striking contrast to the traditional townscape that surrounds it. Built by local Hida master carpenter Nishida Kiyoshi, the building remains an active Hida beef specialty shop and offers visitors a rare glimpse of pre-war Showa architectural experimentation in regional Japan.

Discover the Nagaya Seizaemon Residence in Seki, Gifu — a registered tangible cultural property dating back to the 17th century. This grand shoya dwelling reveals Edo-period rural life in the mountains of northern Mino.

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.

Gifu’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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