fortified Yayoi-period settlement, the subject of extensive excavation from 1986; 2500 burials with ICP grave goods have been uncovered; the site has been reconstructed on the basis of hypotheses drawn from the postholes; now a National Government Park[5][6]
its construction in 665 under Baekje guidance, as the castle of Woyogi (椽), is chronicled in Nihon Shoki; formed part of a network of defences dating to the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Hakusukinoe in 663 to protect Dazaifu against the threat of invasion from the Korean peninsula by Silla-Tang forces;[7][8][9] the designation includes an area of Chikushino in Fukuoka Prefecture
earthworks stretching 1,866 m, with stone pillar bases and sluice gates; there is a theory that construction was related to defeat at the Battle of Hakusukinoe in 663[10]
Yayoi-period "high-tech factory" (ハイテク工場); bronze-casting site, discovered in 1974 and extending over an area of 4,400 m2, with five moulds for dōtaku (bells) and five for hoko (spears); traces of bronze found on the valley floor suggest this may have been the site of the smelting works[11]
kofun or burial mound with red walls and three stone sarcophagi in which were found, in 1923, bronze mirrors and cylinders, magatama (comma-shaped beads), iron arrowheads, armour, and Haji ware[12][13]
double climbing kiln: A, with 12 firing chambers, a length of 42 metres, and an average incline of 11.5°; and B, with 21 chambers, a length of 83 metres, and an average gradient of 13°; saggars and kiln tools have also been recovered[14]
acclaimed as Japan's first paddy; important for the understanding of the adoption of wet-rice technology, introduced from the continent;[5] focus of the Matsurokan exhibition hall
fortified at the end of the fifteenth century; attacked by the Shimazu clan in 1586 and later abandoned; excavations from 1995 have revealed an extensive site with moats, earthworks, mansions for retainers, temples and shrines[17]
birthplace in 1838 of the Meiji statesman and future prime minister; dismantled for repairs in 1968 and open to the public alongside the Ōkuma Memorial Museum (大隈記念館)[13]
seventy-seven metre, keyhole-shaped kofun with two stone chambers, boat-shaped sarcophagi, and grave goods that include mirrors, stone combs, items made of iron, and haji ware, dated to the end of the fourth century[5]
triple-chambered, 42 metre decorated kofun with red ochre, carbon black and green earth paintings of triangles, concentric circles, boats, humans with outstretched arms, and figures on horseback, concentrated on the rear wall of the burial chamber[23][24]
Yayoi settlement discovered in 1971 during works to remedy environmental damage caused by mining; evidence uncovered of houses (some now reconstructed), storage pits, and wells, along with the first mould for a yari ganna (spear-plane), tools of stone and wood, and ceramics[5]
designation includes the Tengudani Kiln Site (天狗谷窯跡), Yamabeta Kiln Site (山辺田窯跡), Haraake Kiln Site (原明窯跡), Hyakken Kiln Site (百間窯跡), Fudōyama Kiln Site (不動山窯跡), and the site of the Izumiyama Clayworks (泉山磁石場跡)
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