Kumamoto-jo
Stone walls in the musha-gaeshi form. Restoration continues after the 2016 earthquake.
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Stone walls in the musha-gaeshi form. Restoration continues after the 2016 earthquake.
A stroll garden modelled on the fifty-three stations of the Tokaido. Groundwater from Aso rises here.
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
Thatched roofs over Momoyama polychromy - the southernmost shrine buildings designated National Treasure.
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
Its two-storey gate collapsed in the 2016 earthquake; the timbers were salvaged and it took seven years to raise again.
A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.
A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.
Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.
A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.
Public housing from the Artpolis programme, scattered across the province and judged by how people go on living in it.
Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.
The masons who built Tsujunkyo left dozens of arches across the province, each betraying their school in how it is laid.
A mountain fort raised after a defeat abroad, against an invasion that never came; its octagonal tower is rebuilt.
The road between Kumamoto and Kokura; its post towns keep enough houses to read the highway's scale.
Kato Kiyomasa rerouted a river to plan castle and town as one; the layout of water and roads still shows it.