Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A late Meiji house of 280 square metres at Suidocho in central Kumamoto, registered in August 2025. Its western room has a comb-shaped window and openwork transoms.

The Saint Paul of Chartres Convent Memorial Hall in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, built in 1900, is a weatherboarded house with verandas in the colonial style.

The convent brick wall of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Yatsushiro, built in 1919, runs 21 metres along the street with pilasters and a brick coping.

Restaurant of 1890 in old Kumamoto, run by hereditary cooks to the Hosokawa lords, with lattices below and railed windows above; now dining and lodging.

An 1883 plaster-fronted townhouse on the old Satsuma Kaido in Ogawa, Uki City, whose earthen-floored first half and added reception wing trace a merchant's rise.

A late Taisho wall of black plaster over checkered brick at the Kashiwabara house in Ogawa, Uki City, repaired after the 2016 Kumamoto quakes and registered in 2021.

A tall two-storey retirement house of 1922 behind the Kashiwabara main house in Ogawa, Uki City, with alcoves, desk niches and osa-ranma transoms of Taisho craft.

A Taisho-era yakuimon gate and 12-metre plastered wall on a washed artificial-stone base, marking the guests' way into the Kashiwabara merchant house in Ogawa.

The Takaki Clinic of 1931 in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, a two-storey timber clinic opposite the high school, has a half-timbered front with dormers on a half-hipped roof.

The Bishamondo of Takaderain in Yamae, Kumamoto, a hilltop hall of 1655 with thick upswept rafters, is a dated benchmark among the old temples of the Kuma region.

The store and main house of Tsujun Sake Brewery in Yamato, Kumamoto, an early Meiji clay-walled townhouse, is the largest on the Hyuga road post town of Hamamachi.

The Tomishige Photo Studio in Kumamoto, a two-storey timber building of the early Meiji era by the river, keeps its studio lit by a slanted glazed roof.

The Nagasaki Jiro Bookstore of 1924 in the old merchant quarter of Kumamoto, a brick-clad building with arches upstairs, is one of the city's oldest bookshops.

This Lutheran church in central Kumamoto, built in 1950 as a late work of William Merrell Vories, has a pointed tower, hammer-beam trusses and pointed arches.

The stone torii of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, dated 1659, has stout pillars about 73 centimetres thick and regional proportions, and anchors the scene.

The worship hall of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, is a late Edo hall with a cusped porch, a strut carved with the plum crest and a railed veranda.

The main hall of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, is a late Edo hip-and-gable hall with a three-bay porch and carving gathered high in its eaves and brackets.

The two-storey gate of Bairin Tenmangu in Tamana, Kumamoto, built in the late Edo period, stands on a high base, its lower ridge held up by carved strongmen.

A brick water tower at Kumamoto's Hamada Shoyu, built around 1950 and still pumping the well water used to make its soy sauce, rebuilt after the 2016 earthquake.

In Kojima, western Kumamoto, stands Hamada Soy Sauce's third storehouse, a 218-square-meter earthen warehouse of the mid-Meiji era, registered in 2007.

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