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Yatsushiro Municipal Museum
An early Toyo Ito public building: the store buried underground and grassed over so it reads as a hill.
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Aoi Aso Shrine
Thatched roofs over Momoyama polychromy - the southernmost shrine buildings designated National Treasure.
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Hitoyoshi Castle Ruins
Its walls end in a projecting lip - a rare feature in Japan, thought to come from Western fortification.
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Sakitsu Village
A church at the end of a fishing village lane, its floor laid with tatami so the congregation kneels to pray.
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Aso Shrine
Its two-storey gate collapsed in the 2016 earthquake; the timbers were salvaged and it took seven years to raise again.
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Yachiyoza Theatre
Built by merchants pooling shares; its ceiling is covered in their painted advertisements, and it is still a working theatre.
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Misumi West Port
A Dutch engineer's design executed by Amakusa masons - the only Meiji port surviving complete, quay, canal and bridges.
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Tsujunkyo Aqueduct
A stone aqueduct built to water a dry plateau; to clear its pipes it blasts water from both sides - the first civil structure made a National Treasure.
KumamotoArchitectureReihoku
Tomioka Castle Ruins
A castle built on a sand spit, using the narrow strip of land between two seas as its defence.
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Shochu Distilleries of Hitoyoshi
Five centuries of rice shochu; the timber distilleries along the river have been repaired after each flood and kept working.
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Yamaga Streets
A post town whose street of shops and bathhouses still centres on its theatre.
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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.
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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.
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Oita Prefectural Art Museum
Its ground-floor glass folds fully open so street and gallery become one floor, under a timber lattice copying the province's basketry.
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Niozaza District, Usuki
A lane cut through a tuff hill, with temples and samurai houses on both banks - a town carved out of the ground.