Meiji
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This early-Meiji long gatehouse fronts the Ishida compound and is said to have been moved from a Fukui samurai residence, its gate under a tiled roof. Exterior only.
This early-Meiji storehouse on the Ishida compound carries local blue-green Shakudani stone along its roof ridge, with a sheltered forecourt on the east. Exterior only.
The Inoue Dental Clinic in Echizen, Fukui, built in 1908 after a great fire, is a storehouse-style building with Tuscan pilasters and pediments in plaster.
Built in 1868, the Main House of the Iwano Heizaburo Paper Mill in Echizen, Fukui heads a registered papermaking compound whose kumohada-mashi served Yokoyama Taikan.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
In Mikuni's old geisha quarter, Uoshiro joins four buildings: a Meiji townhouse, two earthen storehouses and a Taisho parlor, now a registered-heritage restaurant.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 53 m², with plaster-framed windows and deep eaves on angled braces for heavy snow; registered in 2018.
A single-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 30 m², on the estate's southwest corner by the road, its deep eaves on angled braces; registered in 2018.
A 2-storey house of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, with a shikidai entrance and a reception room of nageshi rails and batten ceiling; once board-roofed, registered in 2018.
A 2-storey earthen storehouse of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 24 m², boarded below and plastered above, with just two small gable windows to guard food; registered 2018.
A wooden, tile-roofed gate of c.1882 in Ono, Fukui, 2.9 m wide, standing beside the miso storehouse on the estate's street front; registered as heritage in 2018.
The former Owada Bank head office building in Tsuruga, Fukui, a timber bank of 1901, has a Western front with a parapet and tall windows that shapes the street.
A 1905 brick oil warehouse in Tsuruga with pilasters outside and flat inner walls for stacking crates, now the diorama hall of the Tsuruga Red Brick Warehouse.
A 1905 brick oil warehouse in Tsuruga with English bond walls, original iron doors and a column-free queen post truss interior, now a restaurant hall.
A brick wall of around 1905 enclosing three sides of an oil depot in Tsuruga, 2.5 m high and 92 m long, laid in English bond with buttresses and a corbelled top.
The Former Negishi Family Residence Main House in Echizen, Fukui, is an early Meiji gable-entry house 16 metres wide with big udatsu walls rising at front and back.
A straight 223 m railway tunnel of 1894 in Tsuruga, Fukui, lined in brick behind cut-stone portals and built by local firms with government-supplied materials.
A curving 467 m brick tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui. Its builders changed several times before Kajima-gumi finished it; dressed stone marks the portals.
Completed in 1893, this straight 87 m tunnel near Tsuruga Station was the first on the old line to Imajo, built by engineer Ota Rokuro wholly in brick, portals too.