Kokura Prefecture

The short-lived Kokura Prefecture (小倉県, Kokura-ken) of Japan was founded in December 1871 after the clan system was abolished earlier that year.

It was made up of three separate han territories (Chizuka, Kokura and Nakatsu) which were, each for a short while in 1871 themselves, called 'prefectures'.

It incorporated the Nakatsu Province (Japanese: 中津県, est.

The old wooden-built Kokura prefectural office (小倉県庁) is still standing in Kokura Kita ward, Kitakyushu though in a dilapidated condition.

Used as a medical clinic and previously as a law court and a police station, it is opposite the ultra-modern Riverwalk Kitakyushu and is in stark contrast to it.