Shōwa

A deep-eaved 1936 hip-and-gable house in Misato, Azumino, built for a mayor's and silk-reeling family, with carved transoms and a 32-mat hall for guests.

A c.1935 one-story wing in Misato, Azumino, built before the main house: timber-faced toward the house, plastered with namako tiles behind to match the storehouse.

Step into the Yudanaka Station Old Building, a 1927 wooden depot in chalet form with Stick-style detailing that has welcomed travelers to Nagano's hot spring resorts for nearly a century. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 2005, it now serves as Kaede no Yakata, a free community space at the gateway to the Yudanaka-Shibu onsen district and Shiga Kogen.

Yokoyu River Dam, a 1944 sabo weir at Shibu Onsen, Nagano, fills the gap between two Home Ministry dams; at 3.8 m it is the tallest of eight and has a wing channel.

Yokoyu River No. 1 Dam, a 1938 concrete sabo dam faced in mortared stone, 48 m long and 3 m high, is the lowest of eight registered dams below Shibu Onsen, Nagano.

Yokoyu River No. 57 Dam, a 1927 Home Ministry sabo weir above Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is the longest of the eight at 58 m, with a gentle upstream and steep lower face.

Yokoyu River No. 3 Dam, built in 1936 right below the Kurokawa Bridge at the entrance to Shibu Onsen, Nagano, is a 40 m stone-faced concrete sabo dam, listed 2021.

Yokoyu River No. 2 Dam, a low 1937 sabo weir in Yamanouchi, Nagano, is faced with evenly sized river cobbles and forms part of a channel-works scheme, listed 2021.

Yoroduya Ryokan's Momoyama Bath in Yudanaka Onsen, Nagano, is a wooden temple-style bathhouse completed in 1953 and registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2003. Its coved coffered ceiling, nail-free joinery, and oval Inada-stone tub make it one of Japan's most extraordinary places to bathe.

The gate and wall of the Ishio house in Shikano, Tottori, from the early Showa period (1926 to 1945), give a great merchant house its weighty frontage.

Early Showa side gate on the east edge of the Endo estate in Bōryō, Daisen: a plain udekimon with a 1.8 m frontage and 27 m of timber-framed wall turning a corner.

Built in 1933 to receive the head of the Soto Zen school, the Shindate wing of the Ota Family Residence in Yazu, Tottori, is a guest wing of bare cypress and cedar.

Early Showa storehouse of Kurayoshi's Ogawa family: a two-storey kura raised to three against floods, 62 square meters, pickles below and bedding above.

Early Showa tool store at the centre of Kurayoshi's Ogawa sake estate: 75 square meters, gable entry, hipped roof, a door up steps against floods. Registered 1998.

Smallest of Kurayoshi's seven Ogawa brewery buildings: a 52-square-meter early Showa storehouse with a covered porch and a stone-look base. Registered 1998.

A slim single-storey barn of c.1935 at a merchant property in Chizu, Tottori, with doors on both long sides, built against its Western-style house and aligned to it.

A c.1935 two-storey clapboard house behind a merchant home in Chizu, Tottori, with Stick Style window pilasters; once a church, since 2001 a free film museum.

The Former Hino Bridge in Yonago, Tottori, a 366-metre six-span steel truss of 1929 over the Hino River, has arched portal frames and is open to pedestrians.

The former Yoshida clinic in Tottori, a storehouse-style building of 1952 designed by its owner, mixes Eastern and Western details in a folk-craft spirit.

The former Kakubancho post office in central Yonago, Tottori, a timber building of 1935, keeps a Western-style front of weatherboards and tall windows on its street.