Meiji
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The front entrance of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji structure whose formal shikidai genkan links the older main house to the later detached sitting room.
The main gate of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a Meiji four-legged gate with a tiled roof and wicket door, at the front of an estate built on Takahama porcelain.
The detached sitting room of the Ueda Family Residence in Amakusa, a refined Meiji guest wing where the poets Yosano Tekkan and Akiko are said to have stayed in 1932.
An earthen-walled storehouse in the corner of the Omori compound in Yamaga, known as the miso store: two Meiji ranges joined in an L, sloping beams and relief posts.
An 1872 merchant house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road: a plastered town-house wing with a tortoiseshell namako base, a Taisho Western dining room, a hipped west wing.
A Meiji-period stone beam bridge at Mori in Ozu, Kumamoto, 2.6 metres long and 2.5 wide, carrying the approach to the Okamoto front gate over an irrigation channel.
The Okamoto Family Residence Three-Storey Storehouse in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a mid-Meiji earthen storehouse finished with namako-kabe and a band of drip tiles.
The Okamoto Family Residence South Storehouse in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a mid-Meiji rice store whose weatherboarded base matches the fence and stable on its lane.
A stone-lined well of about 1909 beside the stationmaster's house at Yatake Station, Hitoyoshi, built of cut welded tuff, 1.1 m across and 4.5 m deep. Not open.
A single-storey timber stationmaster's house of 1909 by Yatake Station on the Hisatsu Line, Hitoyoshi: gabled roof, board-and-batten walls, a rare Meiji rail home.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Tomishige Photo Studio in Kumamoto, a two-storey timber building of the early Meiji era by the river, keeps its studio lit by a slanted glazed roof.