Shōwa

Discover Nagahama Ohashi Bridge in Ozu City, Ehime, Japan's oldest still-operating bascule road bridge. Built in 1935, this striking red landmark over the Hijikawa River opens regularly for visitors and was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2014.

The Middle and East Buildings of Hizuchi Elementary School, Yawatahama, Ehime, designated 2012. Matsumura Masatsune's timber modernism, cluster plan, and open days.

A 9.5-metre concrete lantern of 1931 beside a pilgrimage road at Saijo in Ehime, registered in 2002, with jewel finial, cap and four-way fire chamber all cast.

Built in 1938 at Ainan in Ehime, the Imura Family Residence Main House splits at its door: Japanese rooms west, drawing room and green tiles east. Registered 2003.

Uchinoura Public Hall, a 1937 timber hall on Kawanoishi harbour in Yawatahama, Ehime, sets a washed-mortar Western face over a tatami room. Registered in 2001.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Boiler Room and Chimney in Yawatahama, Ehime, dates from 1928: a king-post truss, a monitor roof for steam, and a brick chimney.

Umebijin Sake Brewery Office in Yawatahama, Ehime, is a tiled 1931 shop-office registered in 2004. Granite rustication, sash windows, a parapet, and how to visit.

The Ehime Prefectural Education Hall in Matsuyama City is a three-story wooden building constructed in 1937, designed by prefectural architect Asaka Ryōsuke. Blending Western architectural styles with traditional Japanese decorative elements, it exemplifies early Shōwa-period design and was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2003.

Completed in 1929, the Ehime Prefectural Office Main Building is a Western-style reinforced concrete structure designed by architect Kigo Shichirō. Featuring a distinctive H-shaped plan crowned with a domed tower, marble interiors, and elegant chandeliers, it is the third-oldest prefectural office still in active use by a governor in Japan. It was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2021.

Built in 1927 as a retirement house, the Ochi Family Residence Sukiya in Saijo, Ehime was registered in 2002 for its exemplary design, coffered and woven ceilings.

The Ochi Family Residence Tea House in Saijo, Ehime, called Shoin, is a 15-square-metre tea room of 1927, registered in 2002 for its exacting small-room design.

Quietly standing within the precincts of Chōraku-ji Temple in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, the Kagiya Kana Shōkōdō (Kagiya Kana Memorial Hall) was built in 1929 to honor the achievements of Kagiya Kana, a woman who created Iyo-kasuri, one of Japan's three great kasuri textiles. Designed by the renowned architect Kigo Shichirō, who also created the famous Bansui-sō and the Ehime Prefectural Government Main Building, this distinctive reinforced-concrete octagonal hall is supported by eight entasis columns and traditional bracket sets, beautifully fusing Eastern and Western architectural sensibilities. It was registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan in 2001.

Kihoku Town Hall in Ehime Prefecture is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property completed in 1958 as the original Hiromi Town Hall, designed by the office of Czech-born architect Antonin Raymond. Its third-floor council chamber features a then-cutting-edge hyperbolic paraboloid shell roof, and circular glass blocks scatter colored light across the interior. A meticulously faithful renovation has earned it multiple national architectural awards, and it is now celebrated as a hidden gem of postwar Japanese modernism.

Built in the early Showa era as a study for the Kimura children, this small wing in Mitsu, Matsuyama, opens its upper east wall toward the harbour. Registered 2019.

The youngest building on the Sano family plot in Uchiko, Ehime, built around 1932. Its high rooms and glazed veranda mark it as an early Showa detached wing.

An early Showa pier at Shono, Ikata, Ehime, built to land materials for the Hoyo Fortress. Twenty-four columns, 73 meters, known as the battleship jetty.

Built in 1963 behind the Suzuki main house in Mitsuhama, this annex holds a six-mat tea room that keeps its crawl-through door yet opens one side to the garden.

Built in 1935 for a Sumitomo Chemical manager in Niihama, this registered house splits guest and family space with a central tatami corridor. Free Sunday tours.

Completed in 1959, this auditor's house is the only postwar building among Niihama's six registered Sumitomo residences. Exterior viewing only at present.

At 295 square meters, this 1935 executive house is the largest of Niihama's six registered Sumitomo residences, clad in vertical boards and white plaster.