Shōwa

Discover the Ikaho Kanko Hotel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma. Built in 1929 as a Western-style hotel for foreign guests, this wooden three-story building with a five-tiered pagoda tower offers a window into early Showa hospitality and the resort town's international heritage.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

An early-Showa fireproof storehouse at the west end of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, with a hipped roof and truss framing. Registered in 2009.

Concrete gravity sabo dam of 1951 at the head of the Karasu River in Takasaki, Gunma, 67 metres long and 18 metres high, faced in masonry with water pouring over it.

An open-sided well shelter of 1935 behind the Bathhouse on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, its central well ringed by river stones, serving a large household.

A small 1935 gate facing the Villa on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with a melon-motif openwork panel, spaced rafters and a gently curved gabled roof.

A 38.6-meter inner wall of 1935 on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, plain in design but precisely built, absorbing the slope of the ground along its east run.

At 2.9 meters the shortest structure on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a sukiya-style inner wall of boards, gray plaster and open latticework.

A 9.9 m² bath building of 1935 behind the Main House on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, glazed on many sides and split into a changing room and a bath.

The Former Aikawa Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall in Isesaki, Gunma, is an early Showa udegimon gate on a lane, its 25-metre wall angled to form a forecourt.

Perched at Torii Pass 1,390 m above sea level, this is the surviving summit terminus of a short-lived cable railway that ran for barely a decade in the late 1950s and 1960s. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, the reinforced-concrete station and its stub-end platform now host a panoramic café and railway museum operated year-round by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.

A small early Showa office faced in scratch tile, with rounded corners and circular windows, set between a brick weaving shed of 1919 and a house of 1931.

Built in 1930 and registered in 2006, the only surviving station of the Kusakaru Electric Railway keeps Hosei University's initial worked into its entrance transom.

A two-storey wooden village hall of 1958, registered in 2020 and open free as Takasaki's folk museum, with its clerical floor and assembly chamber little altered.

Four reinforced-concrete posts faced in Oya stone, built in 1928, mark the street front of the former Serada village office in Ota, Gunma. Registered in 2005.

Built in 1928 in Ota, Gunma, this two-storey reinforced-concrete village hall keeps its U-shaped plan, an Oya stone base and a Lombard band along the parapet.

Built in 1938 to run Tatebayashi's geisha district, this rare surviving kenban office pairs a curved karahafu porch with a 36-mat hall and a rehearsal stage.

A 19-square-metre storehouse of 1929 that reads as a plastered dozo but is built of reinforced concrete, its roof framing copying the logic of a timber frame.

Built in 1927 inside a Kiryu silk mill compound, this timber house sets an Art Deco parlour against tatami rooms facing the garden. It now works as a restaurant.