Taishō
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Red-brick store of 1914 for lamp oil at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, with corner pilasters and arched door and window.
Stone platform of 1912 at Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi, 109 metres long and still gravel-surfaced, the best preserved on the line.
Ashio Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Nikko, Tochigi: one of the line's largest timber stations, opened in 1912 at the heart of the copper mine.
Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long on granite abutments, among surviving Ashio mine company houses.
Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 14 metres long, near the stream where the Ashio copper mine is said to begin.
Steel truss bridge of 1912 over the Watarase River at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 95 metres long, the Ashio Railway's longest, a rare Japanese-made Cooper truss.
Tsudo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi: a 1912 gateway station to the mining town, altered in 1936, with half-timbered gables.
Steel girder bridge of 1912 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Ashio, Nikko, Tochigi, 13 metres long, built over the entrance to the Tsudo ore mill of the mine.