Meiji

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.

Standing in the heart of Yatsushiro City in Kumamoto Prefecture, the Chartres Saint Paul Monastery Memorial Hall is a graceful two-story wooden building completed in 1900 to serve as the base for French sisters who came to care for the sick poor and orphaned children. Registered as a national cultural property in 2000, it is a rare surviving example of veranda weatherboard colonial architecture, where two Western traditions—an Indian-route veranda style and an Anglo-American clapboard tradition—met in Meiji-era Japan. With Yatsushiro Castle, Matsui Shrine, and historic gardens within easy walking distance, the building offers a moving window into the modernization of regional Kyushu.

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.

In Kojima, western Kumamoto, stands Hamada Soy Sauce's third storehouse, a 218-square-meter earthen warehouse of the mid-Meiji era, registered in 2007.

Hamada's early-Meiji soy sauce main house in Ojima, Kumamoto, founded 1818, keeps lattice windows and a namako-plaster base on a registered storehouse street.

At the western edge of a former sake brewer's estate in Hikawa, Kumamoto, a 14-meter plaster wall from the late Meiji period is braced inside by welded-tuff pillars.

In Hikawa, Kumamoto, the Iseri family brewed and banked. Their 1872 earthen rice storehouse, with three squared front posts, moved to the family estate in 2000.

A registered early-Meiji yakuimon gate at the former Iseri residence in Hikawa, Kumamoto, with a tortoiseshell namako wall and colored tiles set into its floor.