Shōwa
Aomori · 昭和Browse Aomori’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
Maekawa Kunio's first building, completed in 1932 after training under Le Corbusier. One of Japan's earliest modernist works, now an Important Cultural Property.
Built in 1937 by the Tsugaru Strait and moved to Namioka in 2008, this weatherboarded forestry office rings its gable window in scratch tile. Now a cafe and museum.
The old Ashino Koen station of the Tsugaru Railway in Goshogawara, Aomori, built for the line's opening in 1930, keeps its half-hipped gables and ticket counter.
A 1949 two-storey storehouse in Hirakawa, Aomori, registered in 2007, whose black plaster lintels are decorated with dragon-shaped swirls.