Important Cultural Property of Kagoshima
鹿 児 島 県 の 重 要 文 化 財Kagoshima’s Important Cultural Properties — designated for their value to the nation’s cultural history.
An Edo-period stone factory in Kagoshima Prefecture. The very same ground carries a second listing there, one that was made some three years earlier still.
Discover the Nikaido Family Residence, a rare thatched-roof samurai home from 1810 in Kimotsuki, Kagoshima. Explore this Important Cultural Property's unique dual-building design and 800-year family legacy.
Hakozaki Shrine's main hall in Isa, Kagoshima, is a small late-Muromachi hall of camphor wood, one of southern Kyushu's rare surviving medieval buildings.
Hachiman Shrine's main hall in Isa, Kagoshima is an Important Cultural Property nicknamed the Shōchū Shrine for Japan's oldest written shōchū, found inside.
The Furuichi Family Residence on Tanegashima is the island's oldest dated house, built in 1846 by a rural samurai and village headman. A ridge tag fixes its date.
The Okubo Toshimichi Related Documents, designated as an Important Cultural Property of Japan and housed at the Reimeikan in Kagoshima, comprise 1,650 items including diaries, letters, government documents, and personal artifacts of Okubo Toshimichi — one of the Three Great Nobles of the Meiji Restoration. Featuring correspondence with Saigo Takamori, Iwakura Tomomi, and other founding figures of modern Japan, this extraordinary collection reveals the behind-the-scenes story of Japan's transformation from feudal society to modern nation-state.
More from Kagoshima
Kagoshima’s registered properties across designations, with featured heritage and travel notes.
The complete kokuhō catalogue — browse by prefecture, period, and category.
Nationwide jūyō bunkazai — architecture, sculpture, painting, crafts, and documents.