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Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
A Maekawa building inside the castle grounds, with decorated tomb chambers rebuilt full size to be entered like the originals.
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Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
On the third floor of a shopping building and run together with a bookshop, with permanent rooms commissioned from artists.
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Museum of Decorated Tumuli
Half of Japan's painted tomb chambers are in Kyushu and most of those in Kumamoto - abstract circles and triangles drawn in the 400s.
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Kumamoto Castle
Its walls curve outward as they rise so no one can climb them; since the 2016 quake they are being rebuilt stone by numbered stone.
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Suizenji Jojuen
The old Tokaido highway compressed into a garden, with a grassed mound standing in for Mt Fuji.
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Kumamoto Artpolis
A prefectural policy of commissioning named architects for public buildings - over a hundred, from fire stations to housing.
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Former Hosokawa Gyobu Residence
A senior samurai residence where ceiling height and detailing change room by room with rank.
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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.
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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.
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Churches of Amakusa
Churches scattered through island villages, each paid for by its own congregation once the ban was lifted.
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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.