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A missionary's house of 1927 at the centre of the Jiaien welfare campus in Kumamoto, with a double pentagonal gable and a large south dormer. Listed in 2007.
Village stage of 1953 at Okawa Aso Shrine in Yamato, Kumamoto, with a chanter's platform and a fully open front spanned by one beam, in the home of Seiwa Bunraku.
A 3-meter-square Kannon hall of 1957 in a Yamaga merchant garden, with a pyramid tile roof, railed veranda, folding panel doors, degumi brackets and a kaerumata.
A 20-meter timber wall of about 1940 running west from the Omori main house on Yamaga's old Kikuchi road, plastered on the street side, with carved brackets inside.
A 10-meter timber wall of about 1940 on the west side of the Omori compound in Yamaga, turning at its south end for a side gate, with stone buttresses inside.
The Okamoto Family Residence Outdoor Toilet in Ozu, Kumamoto, is a tiny early Showa privy with a brick plinth and an offset roof designed for ventilation.
The Okamoto Family Water Purification Tank in Ozu, Kumamoto, is an early Showa concrete tower that filtered channel or well water through charcoal and sand.
The 1934 concrete gate and 40-metre wall of the Former Amakusa Education Hall in Kumamoto, registered in 2006, matching the design of the hall's entrance porch.
A curved five-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 beside the old Kitazato Station in Oguni, Kumamoto. Now a footbridge at the end of the 4 km trail; 60 m.
A six-arch concrete viaduct of about 1939 in Oguni, Kumamoto: 116 m long, four 20 m arches, pierced spandrels and a local bamboo-reinforcement story. On the trail.
A three-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto, built from near-semicircular arches and flared piers, paired with Doyama Bridge across a hill.
An eleven-arch concrete viaduct of 1937 in Oguni, Kumamoto: 136 m long with a 23 m pier, the longest and tallest bridge left on the Miyanoharu Line. Off the trail.
A three-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto, almost identical to nearby Shioigawa Bridge except for its piers; the two frame a green hill.
A curved nine-arch concrete railway bridge of 1937 in Oguni, Kumamoto, with the line's smallest spans at 7 m, lying low across a valley of rice paddies; 80 m.
A curved four-arch concrete railway bridge of about 1938 in Oguni, Kumamoto. Its steel span over the highway was removed after closure, so the arches end abruptly.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.