Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

Shin Onsen in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto, a public hot-spring bath of about 1931, has a bandai, a four-square plan of changing rooms and baths and a vaulted steam vent.

Built in the late Edo period at Ozu Town, Kumamoto, this rural samurai family's farmhouse sets a papered reception room beside a wide earth-floored work space.

This modest 2.6-metre yakuimon gate in Ozu Town, Kumamoto, fronted a rural samurai household and keeps two rare touches: a boarded front ceiling and a sliding leaf.

The Sagara-mura Furusato-kan in Sagara Village, Kumamoto Prefecture, is a two-storey wooden building originally constructed in 1942 as the office of the former Shiura Village and carefully relocated to its present site beside Sagara Onsen Sayuri in 2000. With its hipped tiled roof and generous bands of windows, it is a rare surviving example of early Showa-era rural Japanese government architecture, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2007.

Built in 1926 in central Yatsushiro, this timber townhouse carries glazed doors across its full upper frontage, a balustrade, and two twelve-mat rooms behind.

This 1921 storehouse in Yatsushiro shows exposed brick at street level and timber-framed brick above, rendered in mortar to imitate a traditional plastered kura.

A 434-metre brick road tunnel driven through the Sashiki-Taro Pass in Ashikita, Kumamoto, completed in 1903 and registered in 2002. Open at any hour as a town road.

Built in 1899, the JR Misumi Line Ōda Station Main Building is the oldest surviving wooden station in Kumamoto Prefecture. A National Registered Tangible Cultural Property, this hipped-roof Meiji-era depot still serves daily passengers and houses the much-loved Ōda Retro Hall community café. Just a short walk away lies the celebrated Okoshiki Coast, where crescent sand patterns and Japan's most dramatic tides create breathtaking sunsets — a quiet, time-warped corner of the Uto Peninsula well worth a slow rail journey.

A 1920 plastered storehouse on the Shido residence plot in central Kumamoto, registered in August 2025. Behind its fireproof walls sits a Western king-post truss.

A late Meiji house of 280 square metres at Suidocho in central Kumamoto, registered in August 2025. Its western room has a comb-shaped window and openwork transoms.

The Saint Paul of Chartres Convent Memorial Hall in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto, built in 1900, is a weatherboarded house with verandas in the colonial style.

The convent brick wall of the Sisters of Saint Paul of Chartres in Yatsushiro, built in 1919, runs 21 metres along the street with pilasters and a brick coping.

Restaurant of 1890 in old Kumamoto, run by hereditary cooks to the Hosokawa lords, with lattices below and railed windows above; now dining and lodging.

An 1883 plaster-fronted townhouse on the old Satsuma Kaido in Ogawa, Uki City, whose earthen-floored first half and added reception wing trace a merchant's rise.

A late Taisho wall of black plaster over checkered brick at the Kashiwabara house in Ogawa, Uki City, repaired after the 2016 Kumamoto quakes and registered in 2021.

A tall two-storey retirement house of 1922 behind the Kashiwabara main house in Ogawa, Uki City, with alcoves, desk niches and osa-ranma transoms of Taisho craft.

A Taisho-era yakuimon gate and 12-metre plastered wall on a washed artificial-stone base, marking the guests' way into the Kashiwabara merchant house in Ogawa.

The Takaki Clinic of 1931 in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, a two-storey timber clinic opposite the high school, has a half-timbered front with dormers on a half-hipped roof.

The Bishamondo of Takaderain in Yamae, Kumamoto, a hilltop hall of 1655 with thick upswept rafters, is a dated benchmark among the old temples of the Kuma region.

The store and main house of Tsujun Sake Brewery in Yamato, Kumamoto, an early Meiji clay-walled townhouse, is the largest on the Hyuga road post town of Hamamachi.

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

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