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Discover the historic upbound platform at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma. Built in 1912 for the Ashio Railway, this Registered Tangible Cultural Property features original stone retaining walls and gentle curves that tell the story of Japan's copper mining heritage.

Discover Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway, a registered tangible cultural property dating from 1912. Explore its wooden station building, stone platform, peach blossoms, and the Train Restaurant Seiryu in Gunma Prefecture.

The Konakagawa Bridge on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori City, Gunma Prefecture, is a registered tangible cultural property built in 1912 to serve the Ashio Copper Mine. Featuring plate girders made with Dorman Long steel from England and elegant granite masonry piers, this century-old bridge still carries trains daily through one of Japan's most scenic mountain gorges.

Over the Kawaguchi River in Kiryu, Gunma, this 20-meter single-track deck plate girder of 1912 keeps its original form, with J-shaped stiffeners and no later bracing.

A straight 82-meter brick tunnel of 1912 in Kiryu, Gunma, its horseshoe cross-section closely following Japan's first standardized railway tunnel pattern.

The down-line platform at Sori Station in Midori, Gunma: a 99-meter stone platform of 1912 with a 1927 wooden shelter, open with glass doors and exposed roof framing.

The up-line platform at Sori Station in Midori, Gunma: a 79-meter stone platform of 1912 with ramped ends and a small 1929 gabled wooden shelter.

In Omama, Midori, Gunma, this 166-meter brick tunnel of 1912, refitted in 1974, is the longest on the line, its arch brick and its lower walls mixing brick and cut stone.

On a slope above Gunma's Watarase River, this curved 98-meter single-track tunnel was bored in 1912 for the Ashio copper-ore railway, with a rockfall shelter added later.