Shōwa

Seven of Shorinbo's eight buildings were registered for their landscape role. The 1934 Kyakuden alone was listed as a model of design: a late Shinshu audience hall.

Discover Tanaka Photo Studio, a registered tangible cultural property in Miyoshi, Hiroshima. Built in 1928 by local master builder Yoshikawa Soichi, this three-story wooden Western-style building features a distinctive Kaiser mustache window motif and mukuri curved roof entrance.

The Nakanotao Tunnel in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a 327-meter-long agricultural irrigation tunnel that local farmer Kaichi Okita began digging alone with a hammer and chisel after a devastating drought in 1926. Featuring a pioneering reinforced concrete arch portal, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2000 and continues to channel water to Fukamichi Pond to this day — a monument to perseverance and early modern engineering.

The Nanzan Museum in Saizaki-cho Noji, Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property—an early Showa-era Western-style building originally constructed as a medical clinic. Now a museum dedicated to Shimizu Nanzan (1875–1948), one of Japan's greatest metal engraving masters and Imperial Household Artist, it offers visitors an intimate look at the art of traditional Japanese metalwork and the artistic bond between Nanzan and his great-nephew, the renowned painter Hirayama Ikuo.

The rice storehouse of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built around 1927. A two-storey plaster kura facing the river, it once adjoined a rice-milling shed.

The Western-style annexe of the Hino Residence in Aki-Takata, Hiroshima, built in 1936, with offices below and a meeting room above. Paper roller blinds survive inside.

Discover the Hiroshima University Junior and Senior High School Auditorium, a 1927 Romanesque-style reinforced concrete hall that survived the atomic bombing. Registered as a national tangible cultural property and designated as a hibaku building, it stands as a symbol of resilience and architectural heritage in Hiroshima.

Built in 1948 and registered in 2014, Fukusenbo Hondo in Hiroshima omits railing and columns from its outer sanctuary and carries carved dragons across seven bays.

Built in 1934 in Tojo, Hiroshima, this 78-meter timber shop raises its central bay and adds a monitor roof for daylight. It still builds rock drills today.

Completed in 1937 at right angles to the older shop, this 44-meter timber workshop carries king post trusses, ranked windows, and a washed-aggregate dado.

Built about 1939 for the factory workforce, this 18-square-meter timber block was registered for its doubled glazing and its original flush plumbing system.