Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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The Former Kurauchi Family Residence Treasure Storehouse in Chikujo, Fukuoka, is a ten-bay plastered store with hooded windows, dated c.1887 or to 1916.
Built in 1917 beside the Moji brewery, this single-storey brick building stands on a floor raised 1.7 m over a basement, with pilasters, keystones and parapets.
Built in 1913 as the office of the Teikoku Beer brewery in Moji, this slag-brick building has a towered, symmetrical front and reopened in 2026 after repairs.
This 1913 red brick brewhouse in Moji made beer until 2000. Blocks of 2, 3, 4 and 7 storeys follow the brewing process, and the interior opens about twice a year.
This 1913 brick warehouse in Moji joins two gabled halls under timber queen-post trusses. Now a hall for hire, it was registered as a structure hard to reproduce.
The Kyushu Tategu Mokkosho Warehouse in Okawa, Fukuoka, a timber warehouse of 1956 with four tall windows and a parapet, tells of post-war prosperity in woodworking.
A brick fan house of about 1904 from the Mitsubishi Hojo colliery in Fukuchi, Fukuoka, registered in 1997, one of the best-preserved coal industry buildings in Chikuho.
The Former Tamanoi Ryokan on Tsuyazaki beach in Fukutsu, Fukuoka, a timber inn of 1909 extended again and again, looks out to sea from its upstairs veranda.
A 1934 guest house in Tagawa, Fukuoka, roofed in copper and known as the Akagane Goten. Its upper hall has a coved coffered ceiling and a veranda facing Kawaradake.
Built in 1914 on rising ground in Tagawa, Fukuoka, this tiled house pairs a gabled two-storey block with a six-room single-storey wing. Registered in 2011.
Furukawa Mining raised this brick office on a wedge-shaped Wakamatsu corner in 1919. Twin turrets, tall paired windows, saved from demolition by 46,000 signatures.
This twin-gabled brick substation of around 1909 in Omuta converted AC into the DC that drove the Miike Coal Mine Railway. Now an office; exterior viewing only.
This 31.2-metre brick chimney of 1888 vented the boilers of the Miyaura Pit. The last chimney left at Miike, it is free to visit in Miyaura Coal Memorial Park.
The Former Miidera Pumping Station and Substation in Kurume, Fukuoka, is a brick waterworks of 1933 with arched windows and king-post trusses, registered in 2008.
A 45-meter brick chimney of 1908 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park, laid in English bond to draft the mine's boiler house. Among the largest Meiji brick stacks left.
A 45-meter brick chimney of 1908 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park, octagonal at its base. With its twin it forms the two chimneys sung in the Tanko Bushi coal-mining song.
A 28-meter steel headframe of 1909 in Tagawa's Coal Memorial Park. Its two head sheaves raised the Ita Shaft's coal, and it is the only steel headframe left in Chikuho.
The service gate and brick wall of the Former Yoshihara Residence in Okawa, Fukuoka, join a late Edo sliding-door gate to a 1920s slag brick wall, registered 2017.
The bell tower of Kyoenji Temple in Buzen, Fukuoka, is a rare three-storey wooden belfry of 1863, some 13.3 metres tall, registered as a cultural property in 2020.
Completed in 1911 as the Kusano Bank head office at Kurume, Fukuoka, this wooden building with a chidori gable porch was registered in 1999 and is now a museum.
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