Shōwa

Kenzo Tange completed this Takamatsu government office in 1958, recasting the columns and beams of Japanese tradition in concrete over an open civic piloti.

Discover the Isono Family Residence in Zentsuji, Kagawa — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1930 that beautifully combines traditional Japanese residential design with a charming Western-style wing. Explore this architectural gem near the birthplace of Kobo Daishi.

The No. 5 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa is an early-Showa moromi store whose red-ochre street walls carry the brewery's palette across the road.

The No. 3 warehouse at Kamebishi in Hikita, Kagawa now stores moromi, but a raised roof monitor for venting heat points to its origins as a boiler room.

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.

Discover the Karato-oka no Shimizu Communal Water Station, a 1929 granite spring-water facility on Teshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture. This registered tangible cultural property connects the legend of Kobo Daishi with Seto Inland Sea island life and art.

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.

Discover Kotohira Town Public Hall, a stunning 1934 wooden Japanese public hall registered as a national tangible cultural property. Located near the famous Kotohira-gu Shrine in Kagawa Prefecture, this irimoya-style building features a grand 300-seat hall, coffered ceilings, and a beautiful cherry blossom garden with a haiku monument by Yosa Buson.

Discover Komesse Utazu, a 1936 rice warehouse turned community hub in Kagawa Prefecture. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property tells the story of Utazu's prosperous past as a vital port town on the Seto Inland Sea.

Discover the Sakai Soy Sauce Industry Hydraulic Accumulator Shed, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on Shodoshima Island, Kagawa. This early Showa-era structure preserves a rare hydraulic pressing device that reveals the technological modernization of Japan's traditional soy sauce brewing.

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.