Shōwa
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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Hanada-Imai Gate and Fence in Mimayano, Gero, date to about 1956. A plaster wall runs 38 metres west from the main house, with a simple bracketed gate beside it.
Built in 1928 in Kawashima, Kakamigahara, the Mizuno Family Residence Main House is a full two-story farmhouse that keeps the layout of a modern silk-farming home.
Town house of about 1930 on the old Nakasendo at Unuma-juku, Kakamigahara, with a grey plaster front, lattices and a tiled pent roof on the post-town street.
The great hall wing of the Yatsusankan inn in Hida-Furukawa, Gifu, built in 1935 behind the main building, holds a 100-mat banquet hall of fine timber upstairs.
Gravity sabo dam of 1940 on the Yotsume River in Nakatsugawa, Gifu, the first of the works after the river's disaster: 42 metres long, faced in diagonal masonry.
Wooden fire lookout on a building of Yamazakura Shrine in Takayama, moved here in 1932: a 7-metre three-stage tower with a pyramid-roofed hut and an 1881 alarm bell.
Built in 1931 for the Yunoshimakan inn in Gero, Gifu, this entrance stacks two hip-and-gable roofs at right angles above black plaster walls. Registered in 2010.
Yunoshimakan's three-storey 1931 timber guest wing in Gero, Gifu, with rooms staggered along the south front for the view and a third-floor lookout. Registered 2010.