Shōwa
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A school building of 1938 at Ooka in Yokohama, raised as the main block of a technical college and in use as a junior high school since 1981. Listed in 2000.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Office in Yokohama, completed in 1928 from a competition design, is the "King" of the city's three towers, open to visitors on weekdays.
A 27-square-metre timber storehouse behind a Hadano shop, its mortar walls scored to read as coursed stone. Registered in 2017 as a Tangible Cultural Property.
Frontage of 1.2 metres, depth of 1.8 metres, and a national registration number. This mortar-sealed box behind a Hadano shop is among Japan's smallest listings.
Twin in size to the storehouse beside it, this Hadano warehouse carries a king post truss overhead, a Western technique the national record singles out.
The Roman Bath of the Iwamotoro inn on Enoshima, built in about 1930, is a Western-style bath under a glass dome, with tiled walls and peacock stained glass.
Designed in 1936 by Kasai Manji, co-architect of Tokyo Station, this Kamakura house joins Japanese rooms and a garden veranda to a Western porch. Registered in 2020.
The Former Kachi Residence in Hayama, completed in 1928 to designs by Endō Arata, a pupil of Frank Lloyd Wright, is a Prairie-style house of Ōya stone, now a rental.
This 1929 half-timbered house in Kamakura was built for Marquis Kacho Hironobu. Its French formal garden opens free all year; the interior opens twice a year.
The former Shonan Waterworks booster pump station in Kamakura, a concrete building of 1936 by the Daibutsu Tunnel, has scratch-tiled walls and a geometric stair.
A two-storey house of about 1940 beside Onshi Matsuso in Hayama, built by Kaneko Kentaro in his eighty-eighth year. Farmhouse below, tea-house above. Registered 2021.
Former Kamakura Library, Kanagawa: a 1936 timber library built by donation after the 1923 quake, with a large gabled roof, gegyo ornaments and green scratch tiles.
The Kamakura villa of film importer Kawakita Nagamasa, built about 1942 with an arched corner porch. Registered in 2021, it is private and closed to visitors.
A small tiled gate with a gently swelling roof stands above stone steps, while seventy metres of tuff laid in Yokohama's Bluff bond wraps this hillside plot.
Built in 1933 as a railway tunnel was bored through the ridge beneath it, this Yokohama house hides a corridor-based modern plan behind a wholly Japanese exterior.
Built in 1933 as a Tokyo clinic's Fujisawa branch, this registered property moves air with a raised floor, double bay windows and three monitor roofs on the ridge.
Built in 1931, Shogenji Kuri is the priests' quarters of a Rinzai temple in Hakone. Registered in 2002, it keeps a central-corridor plan and a formal writing alcove.
The Ekodo is a small memorial hall on a rise northwest of Yugyo-ji's Main Hall. Under its pyramidal copper roof sits a raised, finely latticed ceiling. Early Showa work.
Yugyo-ji's bell tower stands on a raised stone base, an open bay of 1934 with inward-leaning octagonal posts. Its bell bears a 1356 inscription, a prefectural property.
Yugyo-ji's Hundred-ken Corridor links the Main Hall to the reception quarters, rising and turning with the sloping precinct, its walls lined with pointed-arch windows.