Shōwa

In Inuyama's castle town, the Miyataké family's 1931 earthen-walled storehouse, registered in 2006, keeps hand-laid cobble footings and a heavy vault-like iron door.

In Inuyama's castle town, this 1930s sukiya house turns on a faithful copy of the famed Kyoto tearoom Yūin. A Registered Cultural Property, it stays a private home.

A 48-meter timber-and-tile wall wraps a residence in Inuyama's castle town. Built in 1931, it is a Registered Cultural Property valued for the historic streetscape.

Just the front-left corner of this 1927 Tokyo bank survives at Meiji-mura: granite, Doric columns and Corinthian pilasters, with a viewing level over Iruka Pond.

Discover the Former Nishi-Nakagane Station, a 1930 wooden station building registered as a national tangible cultural property. Once the terminus of the Meitetsu Mikawa Line, this beautifully preserved railway heritage site in Toyota City offers a glimpse into Japan's early Showa-era rural railway history and serves as a gateway to the famous Korankei Valley.

Discover the historic platform of Former Nishi-Nakagane Station, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Toyota City, Aichi. Built in the early Showa era with granite masonry, this abandoned railway station preserves the pastoral rail landscape of rural Japan and offers a unique walk-on-the-tracks experience near Korankei Valley.

Discover the Former Mikawa-Hirose Station, a 1927 wooden railway station building registered as a national tangible cultural property in Toyota City, Aichi. Explore this nostalgic abandoned station along the Yahagi River with its original platform, weekend café, and scenic walking trails.

The former Mikawa-Hirose Station platform in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1927. This stone and concrete platform, featuring elegant granite ashlar masonry and a gentle curve following the Yahagi River, preserves the atmosphere of an early Showa-era rural railway station. Visitors can walk freely along the tracks, enjoy seasonal foliage, and sample local treats at the weekend cafe and market.

An early Showa storehouse in Ichinomiya, Aichi. Its white plastered gable faces the old highway beside the long eaves of the main house. Registered in 2008.

Attached behind Ryusenji's main hall in Shinshiro, Aichi, this 1931 annexe steps up from tablet hall to founder's hall. Carpenter Nakamura Keizo. Registered in 2013.

Built in 1955 at Ryusenji in Shinshiro, Aichi, this open bell tower of 6.7 square metres has inward-leaning chamfered posts, bracket sets and a coffered ceiling.

Kawabun's 1950 gate and 25 metres of roofed wall front Uonotana-dori in Nagoya, registered in 2005. Added eaves lend rank to a frame only 3.9 metres wide.

A detached room of 1950 to 1952 behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, registered in 2005. The 10-mat room covers 63 square metres, the corridor leading to it 52.

Built in 1937, registered in 2005: a 132-square-metre concrete kitchen behind Kawabun's main house in Nagoya, and the oldest of the compound's five listings.

Yoyotei at the Kawabun restaurant in Nagoya: a 21 square metre timber pavilion of 1950 to 1952, listed 2005. Round log posts, a kakekomi ceiling, and visiting.

Standing at the southeast corner of Renkeiji, a Jodo Shinshu Otani-ha temple in Agui Town, Aichi Prefecture, the Renkeiji Earthen Walls were built in 1951 as a unified composition with the temple's Main Gate. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2013, the walls combine stone-block foundations, vertical wood plank wainscoting, white plaster, and pantile roofing — an elegant expression of traditional Japanese boundary architecture.