Meiji
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Kurasaki Lighthouse on a cliff in Nichinan, Miyazaki, first lit in 1884 for the Yokohama to Hong Kong route, has one of the earliest concrete towers in Japan.
The stone bridge and moat walls of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, of the early Meiji period, include an arched bridge of ten slabs of local Obi stone.
The stone fence of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, built in the early Meiji period, runs 64 metres in finely cut stone around the sacred precinct.
The kagura hall and worship hall of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, built in 1876, stand in one line before the main hall, joined to it by a passage.
The main hall of Ioshi Shrine in Nichinan, Miyazaki, built in 1876, is a tall three-bay nagare-zukuri hall with a railed veranda, sparing in ornament.
Stone powerhouse of 1907 in Kiyotake, Miyazaki, with exposed masonry joints, tall windows and arched lights. Known as Kyushu's oldest surviving hydro plant.
Mid-Meiji main building of the Suzuki Ryokan in Aburatsu, Nichinan: two hip-and-gable blocks joined by a link, with a hall below and five guest rooms above.
Takahashi Family Residence Main House, Obi: a mid-Meiji hipped-roof home with a sukiya-style reception room, listed in 2010 as a model of design. Closed since 2023.
Takahashi Family Residence Barn, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey barn with a deep south lean-to, vertical boards on the front and weatherboarding elsewhere. Listed 2010.
Takahashi Family Residence West Storehouse, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey store on four courses of Obi stone, with two windows per floor facing south. Listed 2010.
The Takahashi Family Residence Detached Annex and Kitchen, Obi: a 14 m mid-Meiji wing whose kitchen still keeps a well, tiled sink and brick range. Listed 2010.
Takahashi Family Residence East Storehouse, Obi: a mid-Meiji two-storey gable-entry store on five courses of Obi stone, tied to the kitchen by an eave. Listed 2010.
The No. 1 Storehouse anchors Furusawa Brewery, founded in Miyazaki in 1892. Within its thick earthen walls, shochu mash ferments in ceramic jars kept cool without burial.
At the heart of Furusawa Brewery sits the kōji room, its board walls packed with rice husks. Since 1892, hand-made kōji has begun each batch of shochu here.
Furusawa Brewery's small late-Meiji No. 2 Storehouse pairs with the larger No. 1 hall on the north edge of the yard, fermenting Yaezakura shochu behind thick clay walls.
On Hososhima's commercial wharf in Miyazaki, a six-square-metre brick hut built in 1893 by the Imperial Japanese Army's Land Survey Department still records Pacific tides — the oldest working tide gauge in Japan, designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018.
Timber merchants faced both banks of Nichinan's 1686 canal in sandstone, adding steps and slipways for cedar. The 2,058-metre revetment was registered in 2004.
Raised over the Horikawa Canal in 1903 by the Obi mason Ishii Bunkichi, this single stone arch carries the approach to Ahiratsu Shrine at Aburatsu in Nichinan.
Built in 1905 at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City, this 25-square-metre stone storehouse carries a Lombard band below its eaves, raised quoins and karakusa carving.
This late Meiji stone wall at Kashiwabaru in Miyazaki City runs thirty-four metres in edo-giri ashlar, pierced by two gates whose pillars stand 2.3 metres tall.