Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagawa

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.

This 1877 earthen-walled rice store at the Shigeta home in Mannō, Kagawa, holds three rooms for grain, barn and tools, with a stone tank at one end kept against fire.

At the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, an 1877 earthen-walled tool store and a 1914 timber privy stand as one registered building at the compound's northwest corner.

Built in 1877 at the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, a diagonal stone wall carries a roofed earthen wall, with a watercourse circling its base like a moated dwelling.

Built in 1877 at the Shigeta residence in Mannō, Kagawa, this narrow covered corridor links house to gatehouse and splits the south yard into a work area and a garden.

Built in 1877 at Yamawaki in Mannō, Kagawa, this gatehouse of the Shigeta farming family holds an eight-mat room and a two-tone wall of tiled base and black plaster.