Hirado
Dutch Wall of Hirado
Fragments of the wall that enclosed the Dutch post, laid in a way no Japanese mason would have used.
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NagasakiArchitectureUnzen
Obama and Unzen Spa Buildings
A spa opened as a hill station for foreigners, with Western hotels and a church built up in the mountains.
NagasakiArchitectureGoto
Hidden Christian Villages of Goto
Villages founded by Christians in hiding; the altar concealed in a back room still shows in how the houses are planned.
Nagasaki
Stone Paving and Masons of Nagasaki
The skill that built the stone bridges also paved the slopes - a hillside city assembled in stone.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
KumamotoArchitectureKumamoto
Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
KumamotoArchitecture
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Aoi Aso Shrine
Thatched roofs over Momoyama polychromy - the southernmost shrine buildings designated National Treasure.
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
KumamotoArchitectureAmakusa
Sakitsu Village
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
KumamotoArchitecture
KumamotoArchitectureAso
Aso Shrine
Its two-storey gate collapsed in the 2016 earthquake; the timbers were salvaged and it took seven years to raise again.
KumamotoArchitecture
KumamotoArchitectureUki
Misumi West Port
A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.
KumamotoArchitectureReihoku
Tomioka Castle Ruins
A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.
KumamotoArchitectureHitoyoshi
Shochu Distilleries of Hitoyoshi
Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Yamaga Streets
A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.
Kumamoto
Contemporary Architecture of Kumamoto
Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.
Amakusa
Churches of Amakusa
Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.
KumamotoArchitectureUki
Stone Bridges of the Taneyama Masons
The masons who built Tsujunkyo left dozens of arches across the province, each betraying their school in how it is laid.
KumamotoArchitectureYamaga
Kikuchi Fortress
A mountain fort raised after a defeat abroad, against an invasion that never came; its octagonal tower is rebuilt.
Yamaga
The Buzen Highway
The road between Kumamoto and Kokura; its post towns keep enough houses to read the highway's scale.
Kumamoto
Castle Town of Kumamoto
Kato Kiyomasa rerouted a river to plan castle and town as one; the layout of water and roads still shows it.
OitaArchitecture