Taishō
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The Second Brewing House at Horikawaya Nomura, from the early Taisho era, carries a Western king-post truss above rows of tall wooden vats. Registered in 2014.
A two-storey earthen storehouse of 1923, its white-plastered walls and tiled gable rising from a tall granite base to anchor the compound's western view.
A mid-Taisho earthen storehouse set east of its companion with its ridge turned crosswise, white-plastered on a granite base under a lighter pan-tiled gable.
A 52-meter timber inspection shed at Idakiso Station, framed with king-post trusses of rough logs and two sunken floor pits. Built in 1916 and still in service; registered in 2014.
A 43-meter stone platform from 1916 and an early-Showa steel shelter whose posts are reused railway rails, finished with a dentil cornice. Registered together in 2014.
A 14-meter steel two-span girder bridge about 3 km west of Idakiso, its girders staggered to cross an irrigation canal at a sharp skew. Built in 1916, the oldest of the line three registered bridges.
Built in 1926 by a local Koyasan carpenter, this private wooden house is a registered cultural property in a World Heritage landscape, but it is closed to visitors.