Taishō

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.

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.

A 1923 timber shop-house in Marugame's Hamamachi arcade. Its upper wall combines black lime plaster with black glazed tile, a finish seen in only two Kagawa towns.

The Shimizu Shrine Hall, built in 1913 on Teshima Island in Kagawa Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Standing guard over the legendary Karato-no-Shimizu spring — said to have been discovered by the monk Kūkai — the shrine forms part of a sacred landscape where centuries of island history, spiritual devotion, and the natural beauty of the Seto Inland Sea converge.

Discover the Segawa Sake Shop Main Building (Segawa Saketen Shuoku), a 1917 Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Zentsuji, Kagawa. This nuriya-zukuri sake shop features mushiko windows and a grand irimoya roof, embodying the historic connection between sake culture and the Imperial Army 11th Division.

Discover the Segawa Sake Shop East Storehouse, a registered tangible cultural property in Zentsuji, Kagawa Prefecture. Built in 1917, this Taisho-era wooden brewery features distinctive namako-kabe walls and carries the legacy of the historic Shidan Ichi sake brand linked to the Imperial Army's 11th Division.

Zentsuji Tenjinsha in Kagawa is a 2.4-square-metre shrine of 1914 northeast of the Kondo, registered in 2009. Its bracket and formal tiling repay close study.

Discover Hogetsudo South Building, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Marugame, Kagawa. This early Showa-era confectionery shop uniquely fuses Spanish tile Western facades with traditional machiya design and houses an active wagashi shop founded in 1917.

Built in 1916 for the Shiota salt merchants of Nio, Kagawa, this registered house sets its stair at the centre of the plan and fans Zen-temple rafters overhead.

The tea room of the Manabe Family Residence, built around 1914 as the estate's last addition. Two rooms at right angles, its plastered wall joining the estate boundary.

Completed in 1922 on a footprint of just 27 sq m, this two-storey annex wears a steep gable of green French pantiles and is a landmark in its Shodoshima hamlet.

In Mure, Takamatsu, a brick chimney about eighteen meters tall stands by the road to Yakuriji temple, its south face still bearing the Genji Masamune brewery name.

Once a store for the Yamada family's Genji Masamune sake, this plain late-Taisho timber storehouse near Yakuriji temple now serves as a dining room for a udon restaurant.

On the old approach to Yakuriji temple, a hall barely two square meters shelters two stone Jizo figures inscribed 1729 and 1765, marking devotion on the pilgrim path.