Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Fukuoka

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.

This 1908 stone gate at Kurume, Fukuoka wraps the former Kusano Bank garden in an L shape, its plinth carrying arabesque ironwork. Registered as heritage in 1999.

A registered storehouse at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Its rice store dates to 1812 and its vessel store to 1857, one roof spanning two eras.

The largest storehouse at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. This early-Meiji building is two-storied on the west and open to the roof on the east.

A detached guest wing at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Built in refined sukiya style, it was the birthplace of art historian Kawakita Michiaki.

A registered building at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Despite its name, this charcoal room is a solid two-story building, dating from around 1861.

A registered building at the Kusumori Kawakita Residence in Ukiha, Fukuoka. Its floorboards bear an 1861 date, but it was likely moved and remodeled in late Meiji.

Discover the Tadokoro Shoten Warehouse, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kitakyushu built with slag bricks from the Yawata Steel Works, reflecting the city's industrial heritage.

Discover the Chūai Tunnel, an 1889 brick-and-stone tunnel in Fukuoka Prefecture registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property. Learn about its role in Japan's coal transport history and its literary connections.

The middle of three brick miso storehouses on a Yanagawa canal. French bond walls, two segmental arches its neighbours later copied, and a Japanese roof frame.

The largest of three brick miso storehouses facing a Yanagawa canal, roofed with a Western king post truss and bound to its neighbours by one sawtooth brick cornice.

Discover Najima Bridge in Fukuoka City, a 1933 reinforced concrete seven-arch bridge spanning the Tatara River. Learn about its elegant classical design, its role in modern Japan's development, and how to visit this Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Standing in the heart of Kurume City in Fukuoka Prefecture, the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Kurume Church Chapel was designed by the American-born architect William Merrell Vories and completed in 1918. The oldest surviving Vories-designed building in Kyushu, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2019. Its column-free worship hall, supported by an exposed wooden scissors truss, beautifully embodies Vories's early architectural style.

Discover the Brick Wall of the Japan Evangelical Lutheran Kurume Church in Hiyoshi-machi, Kurume. Designed by William Merrell Vories and completed in 1927, this 21-meter Registered Tangible Cultural Property features seven elegant arches along the street, forming part of Kyushu's oldest surviving Vories architectural ensemble.

Tetsugyuan, the tea house of the Nogata Tanio Art Museum in Fukuoka, was built around 1941 in sukiya style. Tea room, mizuya and waiting room run in one line.

The Nogata Tanio Art Museum Western Wing in Fukuoka was rebuilt around 1941 as the Okuno Clinic after a fire. Composite columns and tiled walls hide a timber frame.

Built around 1941 behind the Okuno Clinic in Nogata, Fukuoka, the Japanese Wing housed the family. A mud-walled storehouse at one corner holds the collection.

Fukuoka’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.

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