Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 14-metre steel bridge of 1924 in Taragi on one 40-foot girder, its two main girders staggered to cross an irrigation channel at an angle, with a fan wing wall.

A concrete railway arch of 1924 in Taragi, 3.7 metres long and 8.1 metres wide: a skewed five-centred arch to design No. 1007 with a concrete invert and stone walls.

A concrete skew bridge of 1923 in Taragi, 4.6 metres long with an 8-foot span to design No. 1305, whose stone wing walls curve to follow the irrigation channel.

A six-span steel bridge of 1923 over the Menda River, at 75 metres the line's longest registered bridge, combining 30-foot and 40-foot girders of design No. 540.

The 1924 timber terminus of the Kumagawa Railway at Yunomae, with a carriage porch, a block-signal room and an old ticket window: the line's only pre-war station.

Built in 1937 at Tamana High School in Kumamoto, this concrete pond reads as the character 中 seen from above and, with the school buildings, spells out 玉中.

Completed in 1924 beside the springs of Hakenomiya in Kumamoto, this square brick pump station carries Expressionist detailing and keeps its original pump.

Designed by Takeda Goichi and completed in 1931 as the library of Kumamoto Medical College, this reinforced concrete hall was moved 48 metres intact in 2006.

Built in 1924 to replace a wooden school lost to fire, this three-storey concrete building by ministry engineer Nagaoka Yue carries Secession-style capitals.

A timber kindergarten of 1929, paid for by an American Lutheran church, planned around daylight and ventilation, with a curved porch gable above an arched window.

Raised in 1938 where a storm surge had breached the Gunchiku sea wall, this three-arch sluice gate was cut in stone at a time when concrete had become standard.

Built in 1931 in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, Shin-Onsen is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property — a rare wooden public bathhouse that survived the devastating 2020 floods and embodies the spirit of Japan's early Showa-era hot spring culture.

Built in the late Edo period at Ozu Town, Kumamoto, this rural samurai family's farmhouse sets a papered reception room beside a wide earth-floored work space.

This modest 2.6-metre yakuimon gate in Ozu Town, Kumamoto, fronted a rural samurai household and keeps two rare touches: a boarded front ceiling and a sliding leaf.

The Sagara-mura Furusato-kan in Sagara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a two-storey wooden building originally constructed in 1942 as the office of the former Shiura Village and carefully relocated to its present site beside Sagara Onsen Sayuri in 2000. With its hipped tiled roof and generous bands of windows, it is a rare surviving example of early Showa-era rural Japanese government architecture, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

Built in 1926 in central Yatsushiro, this timber townhouse carries glazed doors across its full upper frontage, a balustrade, and two twelve-mat rooms behind.

This 1921 storehouse in Yatsushiro shows exposed brick at street level and timber-framed brick above, rendered in mortar to imitate a traditional plastered kura.

A 434-metre brick road tunnel driven through the Sashiki-Taro Pass in Ashikita, Kumamoto, completed in 1903 and registered in 2002. Open at any hour as a town road.

Built in 1899, the JR Misumi Line Ōda Station Main Building is the oldest surviving wooden station in Kumamoto Prefecture. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this hipped-roof Meiji-era depot still serves daily passengers and houses the much-loved Ōda Retro Hall community café. Just a short walk away lies the celebrated Okoshiki Coast, where crescent sand patterns and Japan's most dramatic tides create breathtaking sunsets — a quiet, time-warped corner of the Uto Peninsula well worth a slow rail journey.

A 1920 plastered storehouse on the Shido residence plot in central Kumamoto, registered in August 2025. Behind its fireproof walls sits a Western king-post truss.

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