Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Hamada's early-Meiji soy sauce main house in Ojima, Kumamoto, founded 1818, keeps lattice windows and a namako-plaster base on a registered storehouse street.

In Kumamoto's Koshima port district, Hamada's late-Edo soy sauce shop wears a plastered, two-toned front with namako tilework, registered for the historic street.

About 8 square meters, the Hamada Shoyu Yokan is a 1930s former tobacco shop with Western detailing, set at a long-running soy sauce brewery in Kumamoto.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Mashiki, Kumamoto: the former home of a rural Higo-domain samurai, its single-storey roof part hip-and-gable, part hipped.

The Hayano Building in Kumamoto, a concrete office block of 1924 said to be the first built for rent in the city, shows early office design in its windows.

On the Tsuboi River by the stone Meiju Bridge stands the 1919 Dai-Ichi Bank Kumamoto Branch, the city's first concrete building, designed by Yoshitoki Nishimura.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kumamoto. Built by the Iseri family in 1832, this tall plastered townhouse anchors the old Miyahara post town.

At the western edge of a former sake brewer's estate in Hikawa, Kumamoto, a 14-meter plaster wall from the late Meiji period is braced inside by welded-tuff pillars.

In Hikawa, Kumamoto, the Iseri family brewed and banked. Their 1872 earthen rice storehouse, with three squared front posts, moved to the family estate in 2000.

A registered early-Meiji yakuimon gate at the former Iseri residence in Hikawa, Kumamoto, with a tortoiseshell namako wall and colored tiles set into its floor.

In Miyahara, Kumamoto, a 20-meter red brick wall in English bond edges the old Iseri merchant estate. Its even buttresses and capping cornice show late-Taisho craft.

A small 1925 concrete bank in Miyahara, an old Kumamoto post town. Its Secession-style front carries four pilasters and a geometric parapet, and entry is free.

A 1933 timber inn entrance on the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, registered in 2013. See its hip-and-gable porch, courtyard glass doors, and post-flood revival.

The 1933 central building of Hitoyoshi Ryokan, a riverside hot-spring inn in Kumamoto, with four rooms per floor and varied wooden lattice, now registered heritage.

On the Kuma River in southern Kumamoto, this 1953 guest wing of a working inn is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, reopened in 2022 after a major flood.

Registered in 2013, the 1930s East Wing of Kumamoto's Hitoyoshi Ryokan keeps a fan-shaped alcove window and fine-timber rooms, rebuilt after the 2020 flood.

Built in 1925 to carry carts over the Koshi River, Himeibashi in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, is Japan's earliest surviving through-type reinforced concrete arch bridge.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Front Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a stone gate of about 1894 with sandstone pillars and double doors 5.8 metres wide.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Basket Shed in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a long early Showa-era shed for baskets and firewood whose wall doubles as a fence.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Rice Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a large Meiji-era earthen storehouse of 247 square metres, moved here in 1930.