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14,499 total Registered Tangible Cultural Properties 47 prefectures
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Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Shioigawa Bridge
Kumamoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Shioigawa Bridge

A three-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto, built from near-semicircular arches and flared piers, paired with Doyama Bridge across a hill.

Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Sugenosako Bridge
Kumamoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Sugenosako Bridge

An eleven-arch concrete viaduct of 1937 in Oguni, Kumamoto: 136 m long with a 23 m pier, the longest and tallest bridge left on the Miyanoharu Line. Off the trail.

Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Doyama Bridge
Kumamoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Doyama Bridge

A three-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto, almost identical to nearby Shioigawa Bridge except for its piers; the two frame a green hill.

Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Hirodaira Bridge
Kumamoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Hirodaira Bridge

A curved nine-arch concrete railway bridge of 1937 in Oguni, Kumamoto, with the line's smallest spans at 7 m, lying low across a valley of rice paddies; 80 m.

Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Horita Bridge
Kumamoto 昭和前 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Miyanoharu Line Horita Bridge

A curved four-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto. Its steel span over the highway was removed after closure, so the arches end abruptly.

Former JNR Yatake Station Stationmaster's Residence Well
Kumamoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Yatake Station Stationmaster's Residence Well

A stone-lined well of about 1909 beside the stationmaster's house at Yatake Station, Hitoyoshi, built of cut welded tuff, 1.1 m across and 4.5 m deep. Not open.

Former JNR Yatake Station Stationmaster's Residence Main House
Kumamoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Former JNR Yatake Station Stationmaster's Residence Main House

A single-storey timber stationmaster's house of 1909 by Yatake Station on the Hisatsu Line, Hitoyoshi: gabled roof, board-and-batten walls, a rare Meiji rail home.

Kumagawa Railway Iguchigawa Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Iguchigawa Bridge

A 30-metre steel railway bridge of 1923 in Asagiri, built with one span and later given a second whose flanges were welded for heavier loads: two eras side by side.

Kumagawa Railway Iwashimizu Arch Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Iwashimizu Arch Bridge

A 1923 concrete arch in Hitoyoshi carrying a stream 43 metres through the railway embankment, its portal a five-centred arch to design No. 1007, and dry-stone walls.

Kumagawa Railway Uchikado Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Uchikado Bridge

The shortest registered bridge on the line, a 3.4-metre span of 1924 in Nishiki on an 8-foot I-beam to design No. 875, rolled by the Lanarkshire Steel Company.

Kumagawa Railway Omizo Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Omizo Bridge

A 4.8-metre steel bridge of 1923 near Hitoyoshi Onsen Station, rails set between two girders on longitudinal timbers, a detail of the earliest standard designs.

Kumagawa Railway Gakeshita Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Gakeshita Bridge

A two-span steel bridge of 1924 in Asagiri, 5.4 metres long, its 6-foot I-beams made by Japan's government steelworks, a foil to the British steel at Uchikado.

Kumagawa Railway Kawamura Station Waiting Shelter
Kumamoto 明治 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Kawamura Station Waiting Shelter

A 1953 steel shelter at the former Kawamura Station, its roof carried on curved angles rising from a bench. After the 2020 floods it became a memorial.

Kumagawa Railway Kinoe Station Waiting Shelter and Platform
Kumamoto 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Kinoe Station Waiting Shelter and Platform

An unstaffed stop in Nishiki with a small steel shelter of 1953 and a platform of concrete and turfed bank, registered as an accent in the farmland still in service.

Kumagawa Railway First Kobashiragawa Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway First Kobashiragawa Bridge

A four-span steel bridge of 1923 over the Kobashira River in Nishiki, 42 metres long, its 30-foot deck girders set on round piers of finely laid concrete block.

Kumagawa Railway Daiogawa Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Daiogawa Bridge

A 7.3-metre steel railway bridge of 1923 in Hitoyoshi: a 20-foot plate girder to standard design No. 540, with crimped stiffeners, on abutments of concrete block.

Kumagawa Railway Second Kakui Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Second Kakui Bridge

A two-span concrete bridge of 1923 in Nishiki, 4.3 metres long, apparently derived from a box-culvert design, with a cutwater on its pier and stone wing walls.

Kumagawa Railway Second Kobashiragawa Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Second Kobashiragawa Bridge

A six-span steel bridge of 1923 in Nishiki, 62 metres long, with 30-foot deck plate girders on oval concrete-block piers, 150 metres from its round-piered twin.

Kumagawa Railway Takahashigawa Bridge
Kumamoto 大正 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Takahashigawa Bridge

A 4.7-metre steel bridge of 1924 near Yunomae on a 12-foot I-beam made by the Carnegie company, almost perfectly symmetrical and 500 metres short of the terminus.

Kumagawa Railway Higashi-Taragi Station Waiting Shelter and Platform
Kumamoto 昭和中 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties
Kumagawa Railway Higashi-Taragi Station Waiting Shelter and Platform

A cantilevered steel shelter of 1963 and a 110-metre steel platform built partly from old rails at Taragi-Shorenji, formerly Higashi-Taragi, a light design.