Shōwa
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The Tenryugawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1940, is the line's longest bridge at 403 metres and its only truss bridge, crossing the Tenryu River.
The down platform at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940, has a timber shelter matching the up platform in form and size, framed partly with old Yawata rails.
The up platform at Tenryu-Futamata Station, built in 1940, has a 40-metre timber shelter partly framed with old rails, the oldest made in the United States in 1911.
Tenryu-Futamata Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1940 as Totoumi-Futamata, has deep open eaves, a coved waiting room and the old depot behind it.
Totoumi-Ichinomiya Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Mori, built in 1940 for the full opening of the line, keeps its original glazed doors and bench.
The Tonbe Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Kakegawa, built in 1935, crosses the meeting point of three streams on four short steel I-beam spans.
Nishi-Kiga Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1938, has a red-tiled roof, steel canopy brackets and its original bench and ticket gate.
The waiting shelter on the down platform at Nishi-Kiga Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1938, has large windows on three sides and curved beam ends.
Haranoya Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Kakegawa opened in 1935 as one of the line's first three stations and keeps its ticket window and wooden gate.
The Haranoyagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Kakegawa, built in 1935, carries the line 105 metres over the river on six steel plate girders.
The Futamatagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1940, curves through Futamata town on concrete and steel spans 58 metres long.
Mikkabi Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1936 for the opening of the western section, keeps its hipped porch and original bench.
Miyaguchi Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1940, keeps its original layout, with a roof that doubles as a canopy and old sliding doors.
The down platform at Miyaguchi Station on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1940, has a small lean-to waiting shelter with large windows on three sides.
The Miyakodagawa Bridge on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway in Hamamatsu, built in 1940, crosses a valley on tall round piers more than 14 metres above the water.
The Riki Tunnel on the Tenryu Hamanako Railway, built in 1936 between Hamamatsu and Kosai, is the line's longest at 663 metres and keeps its 14 refuge niches.
A small two-storey storehouse of just 17 square metres tucked into the Tōzansō villa complex in Atami, Shizuoka. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2016 as part of a prewar villa ensemble, this modest auxiliary building once safeguarded the art collection assembled by Okada Mokichi—the very collection that would later form the foundational holdings of the celebrated MOA Museum of Art.
The Tozanso Main Gate in Atami dates from 1933. It is 3.6 meters wide and gabled, with kiln-varied tiles laid in a straight line and polished log posts.
Yamashita Kamesaburo built the Tozanso Tea House in Atami in 1940. Its main room has two hearths, a rough exposed beam frame and a ceiling packed with round bamboo.
Built around 1935 for banker Ishii Kengo, the Tozanso Detached Wing in Atami holds one fifteen-mat room under a boat-bottom ceiling ringed by woven panels.