Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Sameshima Family Residence Gate, a late Meiji 2-storey nagayamon in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, with plastered walls, square windows and a room over the passage.

Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Stone Wall, an early Meiji tuff wall in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, 2.1 metres high and 49 metres long, with an angled course.

Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Storehouse, an early Meiji earthen store in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, on cut tuff by the entrance, with a lean-to over its door.

Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Main House, an early Meiji samurai house in Kaseda Fumoto, Kagoshima, with red earth walls and a fan-shaped window.

Sameshima Hiroshi Family Residence Gate, an early Meiji gate set back from the lane in Kaseda, Kagoshima, with a lattice, curved rafters and clapboard wing fences.

A 1955 concrete school on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima, registered in 2022, built to a plan shared with a US Civil Administration standard design, with open corridors.

A Meiji stone-clad brewing store of a shochu maker founded in 1869 in Aira, Kagoshima, registered in 2001, with finely laid tuff masonry and open as a museum by reservation.

A 1909 stone double-arch road bridge in Iriki, Satsumasendai, Kagoshima, registered in 2004, whose level roadway marks it as a modern bridge built on traditional stonework.

Shinshoji Temple Stone Wall in Aira, Kagoshima, runs 58 meters above a watercourse: 3 courses of long stones on a castle-style base, dated 1895 by a plaque stone.

Shinshoji Temple Main Gate in Aira, Kagoshima, is an 1895 stone gateway, 3.1 meters wide, with chamfered 3.4-meter posts, curved capstones and 6-course wing walls.

Shinshoji Temple Side Gate in Aira, Kagoshima, is a small 1895 stone gate at the top of 9 steps: two monolithic 2.0-meter posts under a curved, roof-shaped lintel.

Shinshoji Temple Main Hall in Aira, Kagoshima, is a stone Buddhist hall raised in 1892, 16 by 18 meters, with a front porch, stone buttresses and quoin-like corners.

A 1935 concrete hoanden on a school site in Setouchi, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, modelled on shrine architecture with round corner columns on a railed platform.

Sedome Catholic Church Priest's House on Amami Oshima: a two-storey hipped-roof timber house of about 1908 beside the church, part of the island's mission history.

Sedome Catholic Church Sanctuary on Amami Oshima, Kagoshima: a timber church of 1908 whose three-aisled interior with a raised nave keeps its original character.

A Meiji-period house in Kasari, Amami, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, preserving the traditional Amami plan of separate main and kitchen buildings with a hikimon frame.

Tsuma Shrine Worship Hall in Osaki, Kagoshima, a gable-entry hall of 1916 registered in 2009, has square pillars and sparse rafters that offset the ornate main hall.

Tsuma Shrine Main Hall in Osaki, Kagoshima, is a hip-and-gable sanctuary of 1916, registered in 2009, with brackets stepping out in 3 tiers and zodiac-carved struts.

The Ise Shrine at Tsuma Shrine in Osaki, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, is a one-bay shrine of 1916 whose large porch strut is carved with the Wedded Rocks of Ise.

The Inari Shrine at Tsuma Shrine in Osaki, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, is a one-bay shrine of 1916; its front strut, like the main hall's, records a rebuilding.

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