Meiji
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Joined to the worship hall, this hall enshrines the guardian Hansōbō, said to have saved the founder at sea. It survived the 1881 fire. Registered 2019.
Spanning the Ayuzawa River in Oyama Town, Shizuoka, Morimura Bridge is a 39-metre steel truss completed in 1906 as a private trolley bridge for the Fuji Spinning Company. Designed by the Japanese engineer Akimoto Shigematsu and built at the Tokyo Ishikawajima Shipyard, it is one of the earliest domestically designed truss bridges in Japan and the oldest of its kind in the Chubu region. Listed as a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2005, its 2020 restoration won the prestigious Tanaka Prize.