Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

This early Meiji townhouse in Shimabara holds the brewer's shop and home under a two-tier roof, with a 263 mm central pillar and Taisho alcoves. Registered in 2008.

A Taisho-era yakuimon gate 2.5 m wide beside the Kato Sake Brewery house in Shimabara, with a crossbeam on stone-footed posts and a plastered ridge. Registered 2008.

Kameoka Shrine Kagura Hall, built in 1880, is an open-sided stage with a turtle-and-wave gable carving, where all 24 pieces of Hirado Kagura are danced each October.

Kameoka Shrine Worship Hall, built in 1880, is a square hip-and-gable hall with a veranda and stone steps; inside hang plaques of three of the four merged shrines.

Kameoka Shrine Offering Hall and Climbing Corridor, from the early Showa era, joins two 1880 halls with a vaulted ceiling and a corridor arched like a drum bridge.

Kameoka Shrine Main Hall in Hirado, built in 1880, stands on a tall stone wall at the north end of the precinct, with chigi on its ridge and deities by its steps.

Kancho Bridge in Sasebo, a steel pony truss of 1954, spans the fast tidal narrows of Shionome east of Hario Island and served the post-war trunk road.

A two-story brick and concrete lookout built in 1925 on Katashima's summit to track test torpedoes through a projecting triangular window. Registered in 2024.

A torpedo preparation hall built around 1918 on Katashima and raised in 1939. Its walls pair Hario stone with slag brick. Registered in 2024; interior now closed.

A concrete artificial island built in 1918 about 50 meters off Katashima to launch test torpedoes. Its brick tower survives, and it was registered in 2024.

A 45-meter five-arch concrete jetty built in 1918 to carry torpedoes on rails from Katashima to an offshore launch island. It was registered as a cultural property.

A small stone fuel store built in 1918 beside the machine room on Katashima. Its tuff walls and interlocking corners show careful work. Registered 2024.

The Former Fukko Pottery Works Painting Workshop in Hasami is a 1926 timber shed, 23 m long under a truss roof, where porcelain was dried and painted before firing.

The Former Fukko Pottery Works Forming Workshop in Hasami is a 1926 timber shed, 32.6 m long under a truss roof, where porcelain was shaped. It is now monné porte.

The Former Fukko Pottery Works Office in Hasami, Nagasaki, is a 1926 timber office with painted clapboard and long window bands, now the café monné legui mooks.

A late-Edo wall of grey, pink and blue Shimabara stone laid in a tortoiseshell pattern, 98.7 meters long around a samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from outside.

An 1890 single-storey house in the middle of a Shimabara samurai estate, its reception, entrance and kitchen wings stepped diagonally. Registered 2012. Rarely open.

A plain late-Edo yakuimon gate, 2.6 meters wide, whose heavy posts and tie beams frame the entry to a Shimabara samurai estate. Registered 2012; seen from the road.

A late-Meiji brick wall that steps down a sloping road in three heights along the north side of a Shimabara samurai estate; said to date from a road widening.

The Sasebo Civic Cultural Hall, the navy's Triumphal Memorial Hall of 1923 and registered in 1997, is a symmetrical concrete hall, still in use and free to visit.

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