Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Kumamoto

A small 1925 concrete bank in Miyahara, an old Kumamoto post town. Its Secession-style front carries four pilasters and a geometric parapet, and entry is free.

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 Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Front Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a stone gate of about 1894 with sandstone pillars and double doors 5.8 metres wide.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Basket Shed in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a long early Showa-era shed for baskets and firewood whose wall doubles as a fence.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Rice Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a large Meiji-era earthen storehouse of 247 square metres, moved here in 1930.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Lower Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a service gate of about 1894 with one wide door, built for moving goods and carts.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Main House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 timber landowner's house of 769 square metres, prized for its fine carpentry.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Row House in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiny 1894 building of 12 square metres that once lodged the estate's menservants.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Wall in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a tiled board fence of about 1894, 161 metres long, with a plastered front of 30 metres.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Central Gate in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a small gate of about 1894 that led to the kitchen, with lattice screens and a door.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Miso Storehouse in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is an 1894 corner storehouse where the family made its own miso and soy sauce.

Taisho-era wall of Aso welded tuff in Kikuchi, Kumamoto. Coursed nunozumi masonry, trapezoidal in section, 46 metres long, once nearly twice its present height.

A Taisho farmhouse in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, registered in 2013: timber from the family's own hillside, heavy beams over the doma, transoms carved with Aso's peaks.

The Yano Family Residence (Shintaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, was built in 1929 by a village head of the Yano branch family, with a formal zashiki.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Rear Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is a small 1870 yakuimon gate on the north road, flanked by roofed board fences.

The Yano Family Residence (Hontaku) Front Gate in Nishihara, Kumamoto, is an 1870 yakuimon gate with heavy posts and roofed earthen walls, visible from the road.

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