Meiji

A curving 401 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, with stone walls, a brick arch and refuges every 40 m, likely built by local firms new to railway work.

A short curving 1894 tunnel in Tsuruga, Fukui, with Edo-giri andesite portals and stone-arched refuges, opening the densest run of tunnels on the climb.

A curving 310 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, a near-twin of its neighbour, with railway-era wiring fittings still fixed at the base of its brick arch.

A 979 m tunnel of 1896 in Tsuruga, Fukui, dug through hard rock and a flood with early compressed-air drills, behind grand portals that once bore Kuroda plaques.

The shortest surviving tunnel on the old line, 64 m and straight, built around 1895 in Tsuruga by local firms; its north portal crest slopes with the hill.

A curving 260 m tunnel of about 1895 in Tsuruga, Fukui, its stone walls under a brick arch neatly laid with government-issued bricks by a local builder.

The longest tunnel on the old line, 1,170 m and dead straight, completed in 1896 near the summit above Tsuruga, lined in brick and dug through hard, wet rock.

The northernmost structure of the old line, a 368 m tunnel of about 1895 near Imajo, Fukui, built by a Morioka firm with local bricks and a grand north portal.

The largest culvert on the old line, built around 1896 in Tsuruga, Fukui: a steep stone-and-brick passage about 20 m below the track that carried a stream.

Up four stone steps from the street stands the front gate of the Yamakawa residence in Obama, a three-bay ridged gate with plaster wing walls, about 5.1 metres long.

Rebuilt in 1907 on an older samurai plan, the main house of the Yamakawa residence in Obama joins a formal shikidai entrance to a banker's dignity, poet Tomiko's home.

Beside the path to the main house, the middle gate of the Yamakawa residence opens to the north garden, just 1.5 metres wide, the smallest of five registered structures.

At the northwest corner of the Yamakawa compound stands a two-story earthen storehouse, its plaster walls faced with tall boarding and its windows shut by iron doors.

The detached room is the only one of the Yamakawa residence's five registered structures listed as a model of design; poet Tomiko died in its eight-mat room in 1909.

The former Kagetsuro restaurant of 1904 in central Katsuyama, Fukui, joins two wings of tatami rooms and keeps a 32-mat banquet hall with an umbrella-ribbed ceiling.

The Nishikokura dam of about 1902 at Minamiechizen, Fukui, a stone erosion control dam of huge stacked boulders in a narrow valley, still guards the village below.

The Saito Family Residence Shed in Sabae, Fukui, is a 1909 outbuilding 13 metres long and 2.0 metres deep that screens the entrance court from the garden.

The Saito Family Residence Gateposts in Sabae, Fukui, are late Meiji posts of Shakudani tuff, 3.1 metres tall, facing the old Hokuriku Road. Registered 2016.

Late Meiji house at the core of a businessman's estate in Maruoka, Fukui, moved in 1923, with a gabled porch and an upstairs room under a bent coffered ceiling.

A 1910 townhouse on the old Hokkoku highway in Sabae, Fukui, once the office of Sakai Shōten (now Sakai Ovex), with a lattice front, a strongroom and plaster above.