Shōwa
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A straight 141-meter concrete tunnel of around 1928 near Yorokeikoku on the Kominato Railway, its block-built west portal battered back and grooved for drainage.
Kominato Railway's longest tunnel, 421 meters of S-curving concrete built around 1928, its arch laid in concrete blocks and its horseshoe portals cast in place.
Kominato Railway's Kazusa Murakami Station, built around 1927: a tiled half-hip block and a tin lean-to shelter joined by one long canopy, still in daily use.
A four-span bridge of around 1928 carrying the Kominato Railway high over the Yoro gorge on tall round piers, its red girders made by Yokogawa Bridge Works in 1927.
Kominato Railway's Yorokeikoku Station, built around 1928, fronts the road with a steep gable and porch; at 96 square meters it is the line's largest station.
The 1939 home of psychiatrist Shikiba Ryuzaburo in Ichikawa, Chiba, registered in 2021, designed by Yanagi Soetsu and Hamada Shoji in a mingei blend of East and West.
The gate of the Shibuya Family Residence in Kamagaya, Chiba, an early Showa yakuimon with side walls, faces the main house across fields that frame the homestead.
An early Shōwa well in Kanaya, Futtsu: a head cut from a single block of Bōshū stone over coursed stone and a shaft in bedrock, 8.2 metres deep. Registered.
A household Inari shrine of 1953 in Kanaya, Futtsu, only 0.59 metres high, its posts, beams, rafters and doors all carved from stone. Registered; access unannounced.
A 1953 house in Kanaya, Futtsu, with a layered tiled roof, foundations of local Bōshū stone and a plaster acanthus ceiling. Registered; interior access unannounced.
Built in 1927 as a Tokyo broker's guest annexe, Seiyokan Club in Ichikawa carries flared hakamagoshi gables on three sides. Registered in 1999, now a concert hall.
Rebuilt in 1930 after earthquake damage, Senchakuji's main hall in Kisarazu casts brackets and eaves in concrete while holding the form of a timber Buddha hall.
The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 street-side store whose front half held rice and miso and rear half raised silkworms.
The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Warehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 wharf store on the Edo River embankment, with an open lean-to and a boatmen's room upstairs.
The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1929 plastered kura with hooded windows, thick iron hooks and a two-tier drip ledge on its walls.
Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Chimney in Otaki, Chiba, is a 16-metre brick stack of about 1948, laid in English bond with a three-stepped head. Registered in 2011.
Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Shop in Otaki, Chiba, is an early Showa gable-fronted shop of 66 square metres, with a round window in an upstairs room. Registered in 2011.
An early Showa reinforced-concrete air raid shelter in a private garden in Ichikawa, Chiba, with a vaulted top, 30 cm walls and an L-shaped entry passage.
The Lutheran church in Ichikawa, Chiba, built in 1955 as one of Vories's last works, has white walls, round-arched windows and a four-storey bell tower.
Three-storey timber inn wing of 1937 on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, tallest of Hakkakutei's five buildings, with an ebony alcove post and a woven ajiro stair ceiling.