Shōwa
Kanagawa · 昭和Browse Kanagawa’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
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.
Hachidan Dam in Isehara, Kanagawa: a 1928 gravity sabo dam, 37 metres long and 11 high, faced in diagonal masonry near the source of the Kaname River.
The Fukuromachi Dam of 1929 at Oyama in Isehara, Kanagawa, is a masonry check dam by the pilgrim path up the sacred mountain, guarding village and path.
The Yamanokami Dam in Hadano, Kanagawa, built in 1932 by the Home Ministry on the Minase River, is a gravity sabo dam with an irrigation channel built into it.
The Yuasa Product Center on Kamakura's Wakamiya-oji is a 1936 kanban-kenchiku shop with a scratch-tile front and six framed arched windows on its upper floor.
A 6.6-metre marble obelisk of 1937 on the Tokiwadai campus, designed by Nakamura Junpei for Suzuki Tatsuji, the principal who ran his school without exams or marks.
A 399-square-meter, two-story reception hall at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, dated 1932 and said by the temple to be a silk merchant's Matsushiro mansion moved here in 1935.