Important cultural property
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The main hall of Hanjoji in Obama, Fukui, built in 1489, is a thatched gable-entry Esoteric hall of thick members whose frame keeps its early Japanese form.
The Horiguchi Residence in Ikeda, Fukui, is an early-18th-century farmhouse using five mata-bashira, naturally forked pillars, the most in the prefecture.
Maruoka Castle's keep is Japan's only surviving keep roofed in stone, with Shakudani tuff slabs weighing up to 120 tonnes. Recent dating places it around 1628.
Mikuni's 511-metre stone breakwater, designed by Dutch engineer G. A. Escher and founded on woven brushwood, was the first such work in Japan. Completed 1882.
Myorakuji Temple Main Hall in Obama, Fukui, is a 5-by-5-bay hall with a hipped bark roof, designated in 1901. See its open roof interior, 1296 zushi, hours, access.
Five mausoleums of the Arima lords at Bairinji in Kurume, Fukuoka, built 1630 to 1655, an Important Cultural Property since 2018, pairing tombs with tablet halls.
The main hall of Kashii-gu in Fukuoka, rebuilt in 1801 by the domain lord Kuroda Nagayori, is the only hall in the Kashii style, with porches on three sides.
Sakurai Shrine in Itoshima keeps its 1632 main hall, worship hall, and gate before a sacred cave from 1610, listed as an Important Cultural Property in 2023.
A 3.35-meter granite pagoda on a Dazaifu hill, raised in the 13th century on the site of the lost Hannya-ji temple, its four faces carved with Sanskrit syllables.
A 47.6 m concrete tower built in 1943 in Shime, Fukuoka, to haul navy coal. Japan's only surviving tower-winding headframe and an Important Cultural Property.
Hakata's Sumiyoshi Shrine main hall, rebuilt in 1623, keeps the ancient Sumiyoshi-zukuri form: a straight roof, no bracket sets, and red-and-white walls.
An 1842 thatched farmhouse on the pilgrimage road to Mount Hiko in Soeda, Fukuoka. A dated inscription fixed its age; split bamboo clads its rain-struck east wall.
Built in 1541 by the Harada clan and designated an Important Cultural Property in 2023, Takasu Shrine's main hall in Itoshima is Fukuoka's oldest surviving shrine hall.
Built in 1591 over Sugawara no Michizane's grave, this Momoyama-era Important Cultural Property in Fukuoka is being restored through 2026. Worship continues at Sou Fujimoto's living-roof kariden.
Built in 1458, Shiga Shrine is Dazaifu Tenmangu's oldest building, a one-bay hall for the sea gods by the drum bridge, an Important Cultural Property since 1907.
The Taho Senbutsu stone pillar at the Kyushu National Museum in Dazaifu, Fukuoka, is an octagonal sutra pillar dated 1084 in the Liao dynasty, designated in 1935.
The Hakozaki Shrine Torii in Fukuoka is a dark stone myojin torii erected by Kuroda Nagamasa in 1609, the model of the Hakozaki type, designated an ICP in 1955.
The Hakozaki Shrine Worship Hall in Fukuoka is an open, wall-less gabled hall of about 1545 joined to the Main Hall in a T shape, designated an ICP in 1907.
The Hakozaki Shrine Main Hall in Fukuoka is a 9-bay nagare-zukuri sanctuary built by Ouchi Yoshitaka in 1545, with a stair in every bay, designated an ICP in 1907.
The Hakozaki Shrine Tower Gate in Fukuoka, built by Kobayakawa Takakage in 1594 and designated an ICP in 1902, has a vast roof on three-step brackets.