Shōwa
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Completed in 1934 at Misasa Onsen in Tottori, this 69-metre concrete bridge copies timber design: giboshi finials, Kasuga lanterns and plank-like deck joints.
An early Showa structure on high ground above Itaibara hamlet in Chizu, Tottori: a plain gabled worship hall, and a raised open frame sheltering the 1873 sanctuary.
Kanpu-an, a tea house rebuilt in 1938 at the Yatagai estate in Hoki, Tottori, with two- and four-and-a-half-mat rooms either side of a mizuya; registered in 2011.
A tiny tea-garden waiting bench at the Yatagai estate in Hoki, Tottori, with bark-covered posts and a privy under its lean-to roofs; finished 1939, registered 2011.
A one-bay tea-garden gate at the Yatagai estate in Hoki, Tottori, with a curved copper roof, round rafters and wicker doors; brought in from elsewhere in 1937.
A wing joined to the Yatagai main house in Hoki, Tottori: the head's six-mat study and a tea room entered from the veranda, finished by 1933. Registered in 2011.
The Ryokan Ohashi Banquet Hall Building in Misasa Onsen is a 1932 two-storey block with a kitchen below and a staged hall above, crowned by a pair of chidori gables.
The Ryokan Ohashi Taiko Bridge is a 1932 roofed, arched corridor joining two buildings of an inn in Misasa Onsen, spanning a lane with lanterns at each end.
The Ryokan Ohashi West Annex is a small 1932 building at the downstream end of an inn in Misasa Onsen, joined by a bridge and decorated with triangular openings.
The Ryokan Ohashi Annex is a 1932 three-storey guest wing of an inn in Misasa Onsen, joining a hip-and-gable block and a lower hipped block, registered in 1997.
The Ryokan Ohashi Main Building is the 1932 three-storey heart of an inn in Misasa Onsen, Tottori, holding its entrance and guest rooms; registered in 1997.
Wakasa Railway Abe Station Platform, 72 metres of 1932 concrete faced with granite, keeps a glazed waiting shelter facing the old timber station building.
Wakasa Railway Abe Station Building, a 1932 timber station, has two doors for the two villages it served and a block instrument room from the era of manual signals.
Wakasa Railway Inaba-Funaoka Station joins a 1929 timber building, a tall parcels shed and a 97-metre granite-faced platform in one piece, its waiting room intact.
Wakasa Railway Hatto River Bridge No. 1 carries the line 139 metres across the Hatto River on round granite piers, its eight 1929 girders bending in a gentle arc.
Wakasa Railway Hatto River Bridge No. 3 spans the upper Hatto River on seven steel girders, three of them 20-metre spans over the stream, built for the 1930 opening.
Wakasa Railway Hatto River Bridge No. 2 crosses the Hatto River in Yazu Town on ten steel girders from three makers, a 128-metre bridge built for the 1930 opening.
Wakasa Railway Tampi Station keeps its 1930 timber building and 80-metre stone platform, under a canopy framed in reused Carnegie rails still bearing the name.
Wakasa Railway Hatto Station Platform, laid out in 1930 apart from its station building and joined to it by a ramp, carries a glazed 1954 shelter at its centre.
Wakasa Railway Hatto Station Building, a 1930 timber station midway down the line, keeps its gabled porch; its old parcels shed was later absorbed by an extension.