Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Gifu

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.

The down platform of Gujo-Hachiman Station in Gifu, built in 1929, is a curving cobble platform under a canopy on old-rail frames, with a glazed shelter of 1932.

The footbridge of Gujo-Hachiman Station in Gifu, built in 1944, is a timber Howe truss with steel-rod verticals, made to use as little steel as possible.

The station building of Gujo-Hachiman Station in Gifu, built in 1929, is a gabled timber station with a cobble platform, the core of the old Etsumi-Nan Line.

The storehouse and lever hut of Gujo-Hachiman Station in Gifu, built in 1929, keep a lamp room and four iron signal levers of early Showa railway signalling.

The platform of Minoshi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino, Gifu, a 98-metre stone platform of 1923, has a timber waiting shelter and canopies of old rail.

The main building of Minoshi Station on the Nagaragawa Railway in Mino, Gifu, a weatherboarded timber station of 1923, keeps the form of a Taisho state station.

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.

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.