Shōwa

Shojoko-ji's 1937 Main Hall, seat of the Ji-shu sect in Fujisawa, spans roughly 30 metres each way, its central sanctuary wrapped in outer bays under high ceilings.

Built in 1931 as the headquarters of Showa Fertilizers (now Resonac Corporation), this two-story reinforced concrete office building is a representative example of early Showa factory architecture in the Keihin Industrial Zone. Constructed by Shimizu-gumi, it features a restrained exterior and elegant Western-style interior with stained glass and ornamental details. The site witnessed Japan's first successful ammonia synthesis using domestic technology, and was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1999 and certified as a Heritage of Industrial Modernization in 2007.

Standing near Yokohama Chinatown, these imposing Art Deco-style stone gate pillars were originally built in 1928 as bridge pillars for the Hanazono Bridge over the Ha-Ōoka River, part of the post-Great Kanto Earthquake reconstruction. Recognized as the largest bridge pillars among Yokohama's reconstruction-era bridges, they are registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property.

Shinzanso (Former Fujiyama Raita Villa) is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property built around 1921 in Hakone's Gora district as the mountain retreat of industrialist Fujiyama Raita. The villa blends Japanese thatched-roof sukiya rooms with a Western-style dining wing, skillfully utilizing the steep terrain to create a varied and inventive architectural composition. Located within the nationally designated scenic garden Shinsenkyō, it can be visited as part of the Hakone Museum of Art grounds.

A sixteen-meter garden wall at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura stacks earth and tile in nine courses on a cobble base, built with the tea room around 1956.

The machiai at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a tiny tea-ceremony waiting arbor of cedar logs and bark-faced walls, built around 1956 and now registered.

The gate at the former Yamamoto Jotaro villa in Kamakura is a single-bay bracket of polished logs with a copper roof, a middle gate on the approach and now registered.

A 1932 house near Zushi Beach pairing a reformist corridor plan with older tatami rooms, still keeping the shed GHQ built when the property was requisitioned.

Discover the Sudo Family Residence Former Boiler Room in Zushi, a nationally registered tangible cultural property built by GHQ during the postwar occupation, preserving a unique chapter of Japan's history.

Discover Sunshodo Kura, the integrated earthen storehouse of a 1936 Kamakura-bori shop in Hase, blending temple, castle, and townhouse architecture into one of Kamakura’s most distinctive landmarks.

Standing at a corner in Sasamechō, Kamakura, the Sunshōdō Main Building is a wooden two-story shop-residence with a three-story tower, completed in 1936 by the local carpenter Nishii Kiichi for the Kamakura-bori carver Satō Sōgaku. The building fuses a Buddhist pagoda-style tower crowned with a sōrin finial, temple-style brackets and rafters, castle-style white plaster walls and warrior windows, and the layout of a townhouse merchant's shop. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2006, it is also Kamakura City Important Landscape Building No. 4 and a constituent property of the Japan Heritage 'Iza, Kamakura,' and continues to operate as a venerable Kamakura-bori shop today.

Discover the Nishizaki Family Residence in Yokosuka's Funakoshi-chō, a 1938 Registered Tangible Cultural Property that elegantly combines American Stick Style western architecture with traditional Japanese tatami rooms, perched on a hilltop overlooking Nagaura Bay.

A Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1937, this wooden chapel uniquely blends Gothic arches, Jacob's Ladder window mullions, and a tatami-floored choir loft — a one-of-a-kind fusion of Western and Japanese ecclesiastical architecture on the historic Tokaido road in Oiso, Kanagawa.

Discover the Yokosuka Uemachi Church and its affiliated Megumi Kindergarten, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kanagawa Prefecture. Designed by Yokota Suekichi, a disciple of William Merrell Vories, this charming 1930s wooden church features pointed-arch windows, a gabled bell tower, and a rich history of faith and community since 1903.

Built in 1940 on a Gora slope in Hakone, this timber lodge is entered at second-floor level. Registered in 2006, it keeps eight-mat rooms and a giboshu railing.

This 1952 single-storey entrance building holds the ticket window and museum shop, its wide south windows framing moss and maples across a stream. Registered 2024.

Built into a Gora hillside in 1953, this annex sets a hipped roof beside a pyramidal one, in blue tile, and now shows its founder's calligraphy. Registered in 2024.

Completed in 1952 to designs by founder Okada Mokichi, this three-storey Gora gallery pairs blue roof tiles with wide views over Shinsenkyo. Registered March 2024.

A timber shop and home of 1927 on the old Tokaido in Odawara, built four years after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Deep dashigeta eaves and a mukuri roof define it.

The Hachidan Entei is a gravity-type concrete sabo dam completed in 1928 on Mount Oyama in Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture. Built to prevent debris flows after the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, this 37-meter-long, 11-meter-high structure is registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, celebrated for its blend of traditional stone masonry and modern civil engineering.