Shōwa

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.

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.

Located in Oyama, Isehara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, the Fukuromachi Dam is a gravity-type concrete sabo dam built in 1929 as part of erosion control measures following the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. Measuring 24 meters long and 6 meters high, this rubble masonry structure on the Fudosawa stream protects both downstream settlements and the ancient pilgrimage routes to sacred Mt. Oyama. It was registered as a nationally designated tangible cultural property in 2004.

Discover Yamanokami Entei, a gravity-type sabo dam built in 1932 in Hadano, Kanagawa. This Registered Tangible Cultural Property showcases early Showa-era civil engineering in the scenic Tanzawa foothills.

Discover Yuasa Bussankan, a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kamakura. This striking 1936 kanban-style building features scratch-tile facades and semicircular arched windows along the historic Wakamiya Oji boulevard.