Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kagoshima

A 220-metre stone breakwater completed in 1834 at Miyagahama, Ibusuki, Kagoshima, built by Shimazu Narioki and registered in 2008, with stepped faces and a lantern.

Built around 1916 in Yokogawa, Kirishima, the Moriyama Family Residence Stone Storehouse is a large timber-framed stone warehouse with two arched south doors.

The Moriyama Family Residence Former Workshop in Kajiki, Aira, is said to reuse timber from the 1851 Shuseikan, with adze-marked posts and an unusual roof frame.

Built in 1904 in Kajiki, Aira, the Moriyama Family Residence Main House splits guest and family space, with Yakushima cedar transoms and iron nail covers.

Built in 1904 in Kajiki, Aira, the Moriyama Family Residence Storehouse has an unusually tall stone base and canopy brackets cast by the family. Tours by booking.

A late Edo townhouse on the old harbour of Nishinoomote, Tanegashima, registered in 2017, with rooms along an earthen passage and a ship's-hull ceiling.

Built in 1897 on Nagata Point, Yakushima Lighthouse marked the sea route to Taiwan. The southernmost surviving Meiji-era brick lighthouse, it blends brick and granite.

Built in 1897 beside Yakushima Lighthouse, this 136-metre wall encloses its compound. Local granite carries three brick courses, finished as a coping against the coast.

A mid-Meiji house in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. Its long ridge is hipped at one end and hip-and-gable at the other, with four room zones under one roof.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. It stands where the farmstead meets the road, lime-plastered walls set on a base of dressed stone.

A mid-Meiji storehouse in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. It stands south of its twin, ridge slightly lower, plaster carried to the eaves on the front alone.

A mid-Meiji stone boundary in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. A gate 3.1 metres wide opens at one end, and dressed stone walling runs on for 77 metres.

Raised in 1906 to welcome home Russo-Japanese War veterans, this 4.7-meter stone arch at Aira in Kagoshima is one of very few permanent triumphal gates in Japan.

A thatched farmhouse of about 1877 in Chiran, Kagoshima, one of only three surviving Chiran-type futatsuya, which join living and kitchen blocks. Registered in 2007.

A two-story plastered storehouse of about 1875 in Chiran, Kagoshima, registered in 2007. Its cut-stone footing includes a single block running fully 3.8 meters.

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

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