Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

At the south end of the platform shelters, this covered steel overpass links the depot with both island platforms on a through Pratt truss. Erected in 1927.

Built in 1922 as the gateway for pilgrims to Konpira Shrine, this wooden station keeps a gabled porch, half-round windows and circular maru-kin emblems on its eaves.

Facing the main building across the tracks, this 127-metre timber canopy shelters the island platform, its pinching-beam trusses once the largest such shelter in Kagawa.

Running parallel to the main building, this 108-metre canopy leans its south half onto the depot roof and uses king-post trusses, paired with Shelter No.1.

Beside the west-side depot, this platform shelter carries its roof on tapered box posts and braces fanning four ways, its span widened to read as one with the station.

Joined to the north ends of both platforms, this steel overpass frames its truss girders from rails rolled by Barrow Steel in Britain in 1889, wrapped in boarding.

On the east side of the old Sanuki Railway line, this timber shelter rises on square posts in a regular grid under king-post framing, recalling the early railway scene.

Discover JR Zentsuji Station in Kagawa Prefecture, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property with roots dating back to 1889. This wooden station blends half-timbered Western design with traditional Japanese craftsmanship, serving as the gateway to Zentsuji Temple and the Shikoku Pilgrimage.

At JR Tadotsu, where Shikoku's railways began, a 19-meter steel turntable still turns within a rare pit of cut granite, a working survivor of the steam age.

The oldest building in the JR Tadotsu Works, this timber hall dates to 1888. A king-post truss spans its 42.7-meter ridge without interior columns beneath a slate roof.

The largest hall in the JR Tadotsu Works, this 1931 reinforced-concrete building runs a 114.4-meter ridge, with butterfly roofs lighting a vast column-free floor.

Just west of Workshop No.17, this 1939 steel hall carries a Pratt truss over a 43.9-meter ridge, forming with its neighbor the historic core of the Tadotsu Works.

Inside the main gate of the JR Tadotsu Works, this plain 1935 timber hall shows clapboard walls and round vent windows in its mortar gables, and now serves as a PR room.

Built in 1941 south of Workshop No.17, this warehouse carries a bolted timber truss shaped like steel, an improvisation forced by wartime shortages of metal.

Adjoining Workshop No.17 to the south, this 1936 steel building carries a Warren truss over a 48.1-meter ridge, unlike its concrete and timber neighbors.

The north storehouse of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, a two-storey earthen vault on a cut-granite base beside the brewery path, registered in 2002.

The 1914 main house of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, home of the Yamasan Soy Sauce family, registered as a model of design for its black-plaster finish.

The nagayamon gatehouse and wall of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, with charred-cedar and black plaster and a genji-bei wall on a riverside stone base.

The east annex of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, a half-hipped building with a lattice window facing the river, said by tradition to have first been a shop.

The south storehouse of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, the smallest of the five, standing on the stone embankment at a bend of the Umaki River.

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