Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

A two-span steel bridge of 1924 in Asagiri, 5.4 metres long, its 6-foot I-beams made by Japan's government steelworks, a foil to the British steel at Uchikado.

A 1953 steel shelter at the former Kawamura Station, its roof carried on curved angles rising from a bench. After the 2020 floods it became a memorial.

An unstaffed stop in Nishiki with a small steel shelter of 1953 and a platform of concrete and turfed bank, registered as an accent in the farmland still in service.

A four-span steel bridge of 1923 over the Kobashira River in Nishiki, 42 metres long, its 30-foot deck girders set on round piers of finely laid concrete block.

A 7.3-metre steel railway bridge of 1923 in Hitoyoshi: a 20-foot plate girder to standard design No. 540, with crimped stiffeners, on abutments of concrete block.

A two-span concrete bridge of 1923 in Nishiki, 4.3 metres long, apparently derived from a box-culvert design, with a cutwater on its pier and stone wing walls.

A six-span steel bridge of 1923 in Nishiki, 62 metres long, with 30-foot deck plate girders on oval concrete-block piers, 150 metres from its round-piered twin.

A 4.7-metre steel bridge of 1924 near Yunomae on a 12-foot I-beam made by the Carnegie company, almost perfectly symmetrical and 500 metres short of the terminus.

A cantilevered steel shelter of 1963 and a 110-metre steel platform built partly from old rails at Taragi-Shorenji, formerly Higashi-Taragi, a light design.

A 14-metre steel bridge of 1924 in Taragi on one 40-foot girder, its two main girders staggered to cross an irrigation channel at an angle, with a fan wing wall.

A concrete railway arch of 1924 in Taragi, 3.7 metres long and 8.1 metres wide: a skewed five-centred arch to design No. 1007 with a concrete invert and stone walls.

A concrete skew bridge of 1923 in Taragi, 4.6 metres long with an 8-foot span to design No. 1305, whose stone wing walls curve to follow the irrigation channel.

A six-span steel bridge of 1923 over the Menda River, at 75 metres the line's longest registered bridge, combining 30-foot and 40-foot girders of design No. 540.

The 1924 timber terminus of the Kumagawa Railway at Yunomae, with a carriage porch, a block-signal room and an old ticket window: the line's only pre-war station.

Built in 1937 at Tamana High School in Kumamoto, this concrete pond reads as the character 中 seen from above and, with the school buildings, spells out 玉中.

Completed in 1924 beside the springs of Hakenomiya in Kumamoto, this square brick pump station carries Expressionist detailing and keeps its original pump.

Designed by Takeda Goichi and completed in 1931 as the library of Kumamoto Medical College, this reinforced concrete hall was moved 48 metres intact in 2006.

Built in 1924 to replace a wooden school lost to fire, this three-storey concrete building by ministry engineer Nagaoka Yue carries Secession-style capitals.

A timber kindergarten of 1929, paid for by an American Lutheran church, planned around daylight and ventilation, with a curved porch gable above an arched window.

Raised in 1938 where a storm surge had breached the Gunchiku sea wall, this three-arch sluice gate was cut in stone at a time when concrete had become standard.

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