Shōwa

The No. 13 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa store with a roof monitor and red-ochre walls, closing the street beside the Red Gate.

Communal spring water place of 1929 on Teshima, Kagawa, where water flows through tiered granite basins, each with its own use; part of a Japan Heritage story.

A row of six rental shops in central Noma, Shodoshima, built in 1932 by the Ishii soy-brewing family, its tiled range facing the road apart from the estate.

A small 1941 barn on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima, on a lane below the storehouse: a plain earthen-walled shed anchoring a corner of the brewing yard.

An early-Showa annex on the Ishii estate in Noma, Shodoshima, on a stone wall below a garden: storage below, a room above, walls of charred cedar and white plaster.

The Goyashiki Connecting Corridor in Takamatsu is a 1935 passage joining the main house and detached parlor around a courtyard, with carved brackets under its eaves.

The Goyashiki Detached Parlor in Takamatsu is a 1935 two-storey guest wing with 2 rooms per floor, tokonoma alcoves and refined sukiya-style shelves and shoji.

Timber public hall of 1934 near the approach to Kotohiragu in Kagawa, its great hip-and-gable roof set against Mount Zozu; still used for local events.

Cooperative warehouse of 1936 in Utazu, Kagawa, single-storeyed yet over 8 metres to the ridge, a reminder of the port town's prosperity; now Komesse Utazu.

Early Showa shed at Sakai Soy Sauce on Shodoshima, Kagawa, housing a hydraulic accumulator of stacked concrete blocks that powered the presses for moromi mash.

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 Shioda Family Residence North Storehouse on Shodoshima is an early Showa two-story earthen store on cut granite beside the path to the brewery. Listed 2002.

The Shioda Family Residence Nagayamon Gate and Wall on Shodoshima pairs a charred-cedar gatehouse and tea room with a wall on a riverside embankment. Listed 2002.

The Shioda Family Residence East Annex on Shodoshima is an early Showa riverside building said to have been the shop, with a hooded lattice window. Listed 2002.