Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A 1929 concrete lighthouse on Cape Toi, Miyazaki, registered in 2019, with an octagonal tower and roof garden, and the only lighthouse in Kyushu open to climb.

The Hanamine Bridge of 1929 over a historic canal in Nichinan, Miyazaki, rests on timber legs spread at about 45 degrees, a rare survival of its type.

The No. 1 Storehouse anchors Furusawa Brewery, founded in Miyazaki in 1892. Within its thick earthen walls, shochu mash ferments in ceramic jars kept cool without burial.

South of the main house, Furusawa Brewery's gate and wall date to around 1923. The bracket-arm gate and an 18-meter plastered wall with lattice windows frame the street.

At the heart of Furusawa Brewery sits the kōji room, its board walls packed with rice husks. Since 1892, hand-made kōji has begun each batch of shochu here.

Furusawa Brewery's shop and main house faces the street of Ōdōtsu. Built around 1913, its black-plastered front and irimoya wing recall a town enriched by brewing.

Furusawa Brewery's small late-Meiji No. 2 Storehouse pairs with the larger No. 1 hall on the north edge of the yard, fermenting Yaezakura shochu behind thick clay walls.

Behind the main house sits Furusawa Brewery's early-Shōwa bottling room, the smallest on the site. A pediment over its doorway marks the shift from cask to bottle.

On Hososhima's commercial wharf in Miyazaki, a six-square-metre brick hut built in 1893 by the Imperial Japanese Army's Land Survey Department still records Pacific tides — the oldest working tide gauge in Japan, designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.

Hososhima Lighthouse on Cape Hyuga in Hyuga, Miyazaki, built in 1941, is an 11-metre concrete tower with a domed lantern and Showa-style arch and bracket details.

Timber merchants faced both banks of Nichinan's 1686 canal in sandstone, adding steps and slipways for cedar. The 2,058-metre revetment was registered in 2004.

Raised over the Horikawa Canal in 1903 by the Obi mason Ishii Bunkichi, this single stone arch carries the approach to Ahiratsu Shrine at Aburatsu in Nichinan.

Built in 1905 at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City, this 25-square-metre stone storehouse carries a Lombard band below its eaves, raised quoins and karakusa carving.

This late Meiji stone wall at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City runs thirty-four metres in edo-giri ashlar, pierced by two gates whose pillars stand 2.3 metres tall.

Standing quietly in the historic port district of Aburatsu in Nichinan City, Miyazaki Prefecture, Mitsuo Shoten is a wooden, tile-roofed two-story building constructed around 1929 in the pseudo-Western signboard architecture style. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006, it is a rare southern example of an architectural fashion that swept through Tokyo and Osaka in the early Showa era — a testament to Aburatsu's prosperity during the legendary tuna boom.

Built in 1932, the Main Gate Gateposts of the Miyazaki Prefectural Office span 8.1 metres, with octagonal piers whose caps match the parapet of the building behind.

Built in 1932, the East Gate Gateposts of the Miyazaki Prefectural Office span 5.4 metres, with square piers and one north-side pier marking a secondary entrance.

The Miyazaki Prefectural Government Main Building, completed in 1932, is a striking Neo-Gothic structure of reinforced concrete with three above-ground stories and a basement. The fourth-oldest active prefectural main office in Japan — and the very oldest in Kyushu — it was designed by Oshio Akira and built by Obayashi Corporation. Inside, visitors find granite from Hiroshima's Kurahashi Island (the same Diet Stone used in Japan's National Diet Building), fossil-bearing marble handrails from Mount Gion in Miyazaki, and eight stained-glass round windows in an arrow-feather pattern. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, the building welcomes visitors with free guided tours on the first Sunday of each month.

Miyazaki Shrine's Stone Fence, built in 1907, runs some 235 meters of cast artificial stone around the sanctuary to the Funatsuka tumulus, an early concrete boundary.

Miyazaki Shrine's Goryoya, built in 1907, stands east of the heiden and, with its twin hall to the west, forms the symmetrical facade Ito Chuta designed here.