Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

A 1933 timber inn entrance on the Kuma River in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, registered in 2013. See its hip-and-gable porch, courtyard glass doors, and post-flood revival.

The 1933 central building of Hitoyoshi Ryokan, a riverside hot-spring inn in Kumamoto, with four rooms per floor and varied wooden lattice, now registered heritage.

On the Kuma River in southern Kumamoto, this 1953 guest wing of a working inn is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, reopened in 2022 after a major flood.

Registered in 2013, the 1930s East Wing of Kumamoto's Hitoyoshi Ryokan keeps a fan-shaped alcove window and fine-timber rooms, rebuilt after the 2020 flood.

Built in 1925 to carry carts over the Koshi River, Himeibashi in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, is Japan's earliest surviving through-type reinforced concrete arch bridge.

The front gate of the Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishō-kan) in Tanoura, Kumamoto dates to about 1894. Sandstone pillars likely from Amakusa frame its board doors.

Discover the Yamaga Toro Folk Craft Museum, a registered tangible cultural property housed in a 1925 Romanesque bank building. Explore exquisite paper lanterns crafted entirely from washi and glue in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture.

Built in 1880, the Yoshioka Amida hall is a tiny 3.8-square-metre worship space enshrining Amida Nyorai behind latticed doors. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Said to have been moved from Kumamoto city, the Yoshioka Edo storehouse is a small two-storey plastered dozo, one of six family structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1885 in Kutami, Yamaga, the Yoshioka main house anchored a sericulture estate. Its hip-and-gable roof and six-room plan center a compound registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka fence runs 35 metres on a split-stone base, its bracing matching the gate along the street edge in Kutami. One of six registered in 2016.

Built around 1889, the Yoshioka Meiji storehouse doubled as a stable, with a cart passage and iron tethering fittings inside. One of six structures registered in 2016.

Built around 1883, the Yoshioka gate is a variant yakuimon about 2.3 metres wide, its braced doors matching the adjoining fence. One of six structures registered in 2016.