Shōwa

Chiba · 昭和

Browse Chiba’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.

84 total Chiba Shōwa Period 1926 – 1989
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Hakkakutei Billiards Building
Chiba 昭和前
Hakkakutei Billiards Building

Small early Showa games-room building at Hakkakutei in Togane, a timber structure dressed in mortar scored to look like stone, under a hipped roof of red pantiles.

Hakkakutei Main Building
Chiba 昭和前
Hakkakutei Main Building

Early Showa two-storey inn building on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, with a 60-mat hall under a Yakusugi coffered ceiling and upstairs rooms each with its own little roof.

Hakkakutei Bath Building
Chiba 昭和前
Hakkakutei Bath Building

Early Showa single-storey bathhouse at Hakkakutei in Togane, with an L-shaped plan and a family bath decorated with chequered tiles and diamond and round openings.

Hirose Family Residence Well Shed
Chiba 昭和前
Hirose Family Residence Well Shed

In Narashino, Chiba, an eight-square-meter roof over a well holds a national cultural property listing, registered in 2003 within a grain wholesaler's compound.

Beniya Store Main Building
Chiba 昭和前
Beniya Store Main Building

In Tateyama, Chiba, the Beniya Store residence sits beside a shop made from an earthquake-surviving storehouse. From about 1926, it is a registered property.

Masuda Family Residence Storehouse
Chiba 昭和前
Masuda Family Residence Storehouse

On Noda's old Edo-River wharf, the Masuda family's early-Showa storehouse hides earthen walls behind mortar scored to mimic stone, a relic of lost river trade.

Matsugaoka No. 1 Street Light
Chiba 昭和中
Matsugaoka No. 1 Street Light

At a Nagareyama temple stands the Matsugaoka Type 1 Street Lamp, a fluted concrete post residents built to light their 1950s estate, the last of its kind intact.

Mogi Honke Residence Brick Wall
Chiba 昭和前
Mogi Honke Residence Brick Wall

An early Showa brick wall, 26 metres long and up to 4.3 metres high in Flemish bond, around the Inari Shrine corner of a Noda soy brewer's estate. Visible outside.

Mobara Ascension Church
Chiba 昭和前
Mobara Ascension Church

Mobara Ascension Church in Chiba, an Anglican chapel of 1933, has a Latin-cross plan, a half-timbered front gable and an entrance porch on paired Tuscan columns.

Yoshino Sake Brewery Gate
Chiba 昭和
Yoshino Sake Brewery Gate

Built about 1955 at Ueno in Katsuura, this stone gate has granite piers 60 centimetres square and 2.4 metres high, with an opening of 4.0 metres. Registered in 2008.

Ryokan Matsunoie
Chiba 昭和前
Ryokan Matsunoie

Ryokan Matsunoie in Katsuura, Chiba, an inn of the early Showa period, is a two-storey timber building with an open upper floor and a cusped gable porch.

Arai Watch Shop
Chiba 昭和前
Arai Watch Shop

Ando Family Residence and Inari Shrine
Chiba 昭和前
Ando Family Residence and Inari Shrine

Isokado Store Main Building
Chiba 昭和中
Isokado Store Main Building

Otaki Town Hall Central Building
Chiba 昭和中
Otaki Town Hall Central Building

Kaiseki Atago Restaurant (former Residence of the Mogi
Chiba 昭和前
Kaiseki Atago Restaurant (former Residence of the Mogi

Kaiseki Atago Storehouse (former Storehouse of the Mogi
Chiba 昭和前
Kaiseki Atago Storehouse (former Storehouse of the Mogi

Tsurusendo Confectionery Store and Main Building
Chiba 昭和前
Tsurusendo Confectionery Store and Main Building

Katsuya Residence Inari Shrine
Chiba 昭和前
Katsuya Residence Inari Shrine

Katsuya Residence Main Building
Chiba 昭和前
Katsuya Residence Main Building