Shōwa
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Warehouse No. 2 at the Kobayashi Family Residence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 1962 concrete-block store on the stone wall by the gate that held punched loom cards.
The Kobayashi Family Residence Fence in Kiryu, Gunma, is a 49-metre open board fence of about 1953 on a cobble flood wall, giving a silk mill the look of a home.
The Komi Family Residence (Mizumuraen) Retirement House is a 1927 timber house with upstairs retirement rooms at a Takasaki tea shop, registered in 2000.
The Komoda Family Residence Storehouse in Isesaki, Gunma, is a 1927 earthen kura with a king post truss roof, steel sashes of wired glass and an attached miso room.
Timber station building of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma, clad in clapboard and plaster, still in use as the station today.
Steel power-receiving tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a chair-shaped tower that receives power from the grid.
Steel relay tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a portal tower that relays the busbar and branch line.
Timber train depot of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, two tall gabled bays on king-post trusses; among Japan's earliest, open for booked tours.
Steel dead-end tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a column-like tower that anchors the end of the busbar.
Steel lightning-arrester tower of 1928 at the Ogo substation of the Jomo Electric Railway in Maebashi, Gunma: a trussed tower that supports the arrester branch line.
Concrete substation of 1928 at Ogo on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, extended in 1943 as a wartime refuge for the head office and still in use today.
Steel four-span railway bridge of 1928 over the Kasu River in Maebashi, Gunma, on the Jomo line; piers rebuilt after a 1947 typhoon, girders still original.
Timber station building of 1928 at Nishi-Kiryu on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, with a mansard-roofed ticket hall and a carriage porch; still in daily use.
Timber platform shelter of 1928 at Nishi-Kiryu on the Jomo Electric Railway, Gunma, its gabled slate roof on ten posts and trusses; a rare survivor of its kind.
Eight-span steel railway bridge of 1928 over the Watarase River in Kiryu, Gunma, 157 metres long on seven concrete piers; the longest bridge on the Jomo line.
Sukiya house by Ogi Rodo, built in Tokyo in 1935 and moved to Yoshii, Takasaki, in 1990, with a tea room named by Matsunaga Yasuzaemon and a famed suikinkutsu.
Former office of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, with scratch-tile walls, tall windows and pilasters, now used as the city Waterworks Museum.
Former water distribution office of 1932 on Suidoyama hill, Kiryu, Gunma, in a Wright-influenced lodge style with scratch tiles and Spanish roof tiles; open free.
The 1936 entrance and office wing of Tomioka City Social Education Center in Gunma, a hipped-roof building with a gently pitched, straight-lined porch. Free entry.
The 1936 auditorium of Tomioka City Social Education Center in Gunma: a 60-mat hall backed by a platform and former shrine room, with a layered hip-and-gable front.