Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Built in 1929 on Tokunoshima, this concrete schoolhouse encloses its hall and stair against typhoons. Registered in 2021, it is the island's oldest concrete school.

A late Meiji wall of tuff and brick at the Shigetomi Shimazu villa in Kagoshima City, registered in 2014, 24 metres long and following the rise and fall of the ground.

The late Meiji main house of the Shigetomi Shimazu villa in Kagoshima City, registered in 2014, three blocks in echelon with fine alcoves and openwork transoms.

This 1909 timber office in Kagoshima has a curved mukuri porch bearing the Shimazu crest. Moved to the site in 1986, it now houses the Satsuma Kiriko gallery shop.

Built in 1921 above the Myoken powerhouse in Kirishima, this cylindrical stone tank of 76 square metres feeds Unit 1 through a penstock over 150 metres long.

A rectangular stone tank of 1921 holding Amorigawa water for two generators at Myoken, Kirishima. Its penstock crosses beneath a road on a cut stone arch.

A welded tuff powerhouse of 1921 on the Amorigawa in Kirishima, registered in 2011. Its 403 square metres of edo-giri stonework still serve a working hydro plant.

The 1909 stone head tank of the Sogi hydroelectric station in Isa, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, with four openings for penstocks, a relic of early Kyushu hydropower.

The 1909 brick generator hall of the Sogi hydroelectric station in Isa, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, among the earliest large brick buildings in southern Kyushu.

The Former Taishi Family Takakura in Tatsugo on Amami Oshima is an early Taisho raised granary registered in 2009. It stands outdoors in Toshime Park, free to view.

A 1941 reinforced concrete magazine at Chiran, Kagoshima: 8.7 square metres, walls 26 cm thick, gunnery rounds inside, and bullet scars still on the exterior.

A 1941 concrete anchor block at the former Army Chiran Airfield in Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, which held the wire used to teach three-point landings.

Located within the precinct of Kirishima Jingu in Kagoshima Prefecture, the Kirishima Jingu Shamusho is a large-scale traditional Japanese building completed in 1930. With a building area of 548 sqm, this single-story wooden structure topped with copper plate roofing combines formal reception rooms in the north wing and a central-corridor working wing to the south. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006, it stands as a refined Showa-era counterpart to the National Treasure main halls of the shrine.

A 1935 concrete hoanden on a school site in Setouchi, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, modelled on Shinto shrine architecture and raised on two platforms.

Sameshima Family Residence Stone Wall: a late Meiji wall in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, of cut local tuff topped by clipped hedge, running 72 metres round the estate.

Sameshima Family Residence Well: a late Meiji stone well in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, under a stone slab roof with wooden doors, a paved washing floor and a shrine.

Sameshima Family Residence Inner Storehouse: a late Meiji 2-storey earthen store in Kaseda, Kagoshima, with a 3.2-metre east canopy and floor raised 70 cm on stones.

Sameshima Family Residence Storehouse, a late Meiji earthen store on the lane in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, on high cut stone, its door facing into the estate.

Sameshima Family Residence Main House, a late Meiji home in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima: a gabled kitchen wing and hip-gabled reception wing in white lime plaster.

Sameshima Family Residence Courtyard Garden Gate, a slim late Meiji gate in Kaseda, Kagoshima, 1.3 metres wide, with a carved panel of gulls over running water.

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