Shōwa
Kagoshima · 昭和Browse Kagoshima’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
A 1949 wooden school in the mountains of Kimotsuki, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, with clapboard walls braced by buttresses against the wind, closed since 2012.
An early Showa Western-style clinic in the Kaseda samurai quarter of Minamisatsuma, Kagoshima, registered in 2009, with a varied roofline and clapboard walls.
An early Showa timber post office in Kawabe, Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, with a Stick Style exterior and the postal mark worked into its canopy brackets.
Built in 1935 on Kakeroma Island in Setouchi, Kagoshima, this 3.7-square-metre concrete structure in shrine form held imperial portraits and the education rescript.
A white Western-style clinic of 1928 in Fukiage, Hioki, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, with tall sash windows and elegant Western detailing at the entrance and eaves.
Built in 1929 on Tokunoshima, this concrete schoolhouse encloses its hall and stair against typhoons. Registered in 2021, it is the island's oldest concrete school.
A 1941 reinforced concrete magazine at Chiran, Kagoshima: 8.7 square metres, walls 26 cm thick, gunnery rounds inside, and bullet scars still on the exterior.
A 1941 concrete anchor block at the former Army Chiran Airfield in Minamikyushu, Kagoshima, registered in 2007, which held the wire used to teach three-point landings.
Located within the precinct of Kirishima Jingu in Kagoshima Prefecture, the Kirishima Jingu Shamusho is a large-scale traditional Japanese building completed in 1930. With a building area of 548 sqm, this single-story wooden structure topped with copper plate roofing combines formal reception rooms in the north wing and a central-corridor working wing to the south. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006, it stands as a refined Showa-era counterpart to the National Treasure main halls of the shrine.
A 1935 concrete hoanden on a school site in Setouchi, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, modelled on Shinto shrine architecture and raised on two platforms.
A 1955 concrete school on Tokunoshima, Kagoshima, registered in 2022, built to a plan shared with a US Civil Administration standard design, with open corridors.
A 1935 concrete hoanden on a school site in Setouchi, Kagoshima, registered in 2006, modelled on shrine architecture with round corner columns on a railed platform.
A 1937 bank in central Kagoshima, registered in 1998, designed by Mikami Noboru with Corinthian columns rising through three floors and a curved rooftop tower.