Shōwa
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The Ome Former Textile Processing Factory is a 1935 timber shed of 715 square meters under four north-lit sawtooth roofs, the largest of its kind left in the area.
Ome's Former Tokyo Metropolitan Textile Testing Station is a 1935 clapboard building with an arched, pedimented door, reopened in 2021 as Cinema Neko.
The Ome Former Receipt-Issuing Warehouse is a two-story Oya stone storehouse of about 1932 that from around 1952 issued warehouse receipts for the goods it held.
The Ome Textile Industry Cooperative Main Building is a 1940 wooden office with a hipped slate roof and an upstairs hall once used for Ome's juried textile fair.
The largest of five tea rooms at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo. Registered in 2006, it copies Urasenke's Totsutotsusai and pairs 8- and 6-mat rooms with a kitchen.
A 12-mat tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, built after the Katsura Imperial Villa, with a corridor on two sides and garden steps. Registered in 2006.
The only hip-roofed tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: a 6-mat room with a concealed altar, privy and waiting bench, where guests wait. Registered 2006.
The smallest tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: 3.5 mats after Oda Urakusai's Joan, with log posts and a shingled eave, linked to Yamabuki. Registered 2006.
An 8-mat tea room on the east side of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, praised for sukiya craft, with 11 arrow feathers set by the alcove and the entrance beside it.
A one-metre ridged gate in the central garden of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, roofed in cedar bark held with bamboo on slender braced log posts. Registered 2006.
A 1.5-metre ridged gate on the south side of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, set back from the edge, with a copper roof, log posts and a diamond-lattice door face.
A 53-metre wall round three sides of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: log posts on Oya stone, rendered in mortar, doubling as tea-room walls. Registered 2006.
Discover the Okada Nikki Shōnin Memorial Auditorium in Suginami, Tokyo — a 1937 reinforced-concrete school hall registered as a Tangible Cultural Property in 2022. Learn about its modernist design, founder Okada Nikki Shōnin's vision, and connection to Horinouchi Myōhōji Temple.
Ochanomizu University Front Gate, a 1936 granite-faced gate on Kasuga-dori in Tokyo, keeps its original lamps and wall grilles and is visible from the sidewalk.
Ochanomizu University Auditorium, the 1932 Kiindo hall in the Main Building courtyard in Tokyo, pairs scratch tile with arched windows; open only for public events.
Ochanomizu University Kindergarten Building, a 1931 one-storey concrete kindergarten in Tokyo, keeps stained-glass doors and 3 registered sandpits; not open.
Ochanomizu University Main Building, a 1932 concrete school in Bunkyo, Tokyo, has grape-motif reliefs, a marble checkerboard hall and a History Museum open set days.
Just a fifteen-minute walk from Shibuya Station, Onko Gakkai Kaikan is a quietly remarkable reinforced-concrete building completed in 1927 and designated a national Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2000. Designed and built by Shimizu-gumi, today's Shimizu Construction, the hall safeguards over twenty thousand original Edo-period woodblocks for Gunsho Ruijū, the monumental classical anthology compiled by the blind scholar Hanawa Hokiichi. Now open to the public as the Hanawa Hokiichi Memorial Museum, it offers an unforgettable glimpse into Japan's literary heritage.
Built in 1928 on the birthplace of Tokyo University, this SRC clubhouse by Toshikata Sano and Teitaro Takahashi served the alumni of Japan's seven former Imperial Universities. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property since 2003 and a Tokyo Metropolitan designation since 2025, it is currently closed for redevelopment until around 2030.
Kajikaen Inari Shrine, a c.1955 one-bay shrine in a courtyard of a former inn in Ome, covers 0.36 square meters yet has steps, a carved bracket and a gable.