Shōwa

At the south end of the platform shelters, this covered steel overpass links the depot with both island platforms on a through Pratt truss. Erected in 1927.

At JR Tadotsu, where Shikoku's railways began, a 19-meter steel turntable still turns within a rare pit of cut granite, a working survivor of the steam age.

The largest hall in the JR Tadotsu Works, this 1931 reinforced-concrete building runs a 114.4-meter ridge, with butterfly roofs lighting a vast column-free floor.

Just west of Workshop No.17, this 1939 steel hall carries a Pratt truss over a 43.9-meter ridge, forming with its neighbor the historic core of the Tadotsu Works.

Inside the main gate of the JR Tadotsu Works, this plain 1935 timber hall shows clapboard walls and round vent windows in its mortar gables, and now serves as a PR room.

Built in 1941 south of Workshop No.17, this warehouse carries a bolted timber truss shaped like steel, an improvisation forced by wartime shortages of metal.

Adjoining Workshop No.17 to the south, this 1936 steel building carries a Warren truss over a 48.1-meter ridge, unlike its concrete and timber neighbors.

The north storehouse of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, a two-storey earthen vault on a cut-granite base beside the brewery path, registered in 2002.

The nagayamon gatehouse and wall of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, with charred-cedar and black plaster and a genji-bei wall on a riverside stone base.

The east annex of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, a half-hipped building with a lattice window facing the river, said by tradition to have first been a shop.

The south storehouse of the Shioda Family Residence in Shodoshima, the smallest of the five, standing on the stone embankment at a bend of the Umaki River.

Shimizu Kannon-dō is a modest Buddhist hall standing beside a legendary spring in the Karato district of Teshima island, Kagawa Prefecture. Together with the adjacent communal water facility and Shimizu Shrine, it forms a unique cultural landscape where water and faith are inseparably intertwined, registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2001.

Discover the Shimotakase Simple Post Office, a 1935 Western-style building originally built as the Maruoka Kimono Shop in Mitoyo City, Kagawa. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property features a stunning central atrium with skylights, inspired by Kyoto's modern architecture. Still in use as a working post office, it offers a unique glimpse into early Showa commercial architecture in rural Shikoku.

Discover Hori Family Clock Shop, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Marugame, Kagawa. This early Shōwa-period kanban-style building features a Western-inspired mortar facade with gable ornaments, originally built as a clinic and now a beloved local landmark near Marugame Castle.

A 13-metre tiled earthen wall and a 1.4-metre gate dividing the front court from the inner garden of a triangular estate in Mure, Takamatsu. Registered in 2006.

Near the guest rooms of the Yamada house, a garden gate barely a meter wide is roofed with bold arched tiles, an early-Showa accent between the south and west gardens.

Built in 1932 when the Yamahisa brewery was founded, this cedar-clad warehouse in Yasuda on Shodoshima carries the firm's mark on its gable. Registered in 2003.

An earthen-walled storehouse of 1938 at Obe, Shodoshima, its west gable marked with the family crest and its north pent roof on curved brackets. Registered 2004.

The Nogi Shrine Temizusha (hand-washing pavilion) in Zentsuji City, Kagawa Prefecture, is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built around 1935 as part of a shrine complex dedicated to General Nogi Maresuke. Featuring a modernized Shinmei-zukuri architectural style inspired by Ise Grand Shrine, it was registered along with the main hall, worship hall, and torii gate in 2002. Located alongside the Kagawa Prefecture Gokoku Shrine and near the birthplace of Kobo Daishi, it offers visitors a unique window into Japan's early Showa-era shrine architecture and modern history.