 The destroyed building was restored, and the new government office building was inaugurated in 1888, with red bricks and the octagonal dome on top of the building as the first governor, Michitoshi Iwamura, had suggested.In 1896, air vents and the octagonal dome on the top were taken away.Fire destroyed the building again in 1909, and the inside was burnt down, while the walls of the building with red bricks sustained little damage.