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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.
Wakasa Railway Snow Shed, a 24-metre concrete frame of 1948, shields the track from mountain snow with a sloping roof, in stark contrast to the rockfall shed nearby.
Wakasa Railway Rockfall Shed, a 35-metre concrete gallery of 1955, guards the track with fourteen side arches and an earth-packed roof that cushions falling rock.
Wakasa Railway Wakasa Station Locomotive Turntable is a hand-turned 15-metre steel table of 1930 whose pit takes in water to melt snow; visitors can try turning it.
Wakasa Railway Wakasa Station Water Tower, a 1930 steel tank on a concrete base, watered steam engines beside the turntable and is the symbol of the old terminus.
Wakasa Railway Wakasa Station Former West Switchman's Hut, a 1930 timber hut of 3 square metres, is where staff waited to throw the yard points by hand.
Wakasa Railway Wakasa Station Former East Switchman's Hut is a 1951 rebuild of a 1930 pointsman's hut, matching its western twin save for its clapboard.