Shōwa

Hiraoka Family Residence Barn, Kaiyo: a 1954 barn with a potato store, cattle shed and sheltered work yard below, and tatami rooms with an alcove upstairs.

Hiraoka Family Residence South Wall, Kaiyo: an early Showa plastered earthen wall, 13 meters long, on 3 courses of dressed sandstone, with a tall tiled ridge.

A circa-1927 farmhouse on the Yoshino River delta in Kitajima, Tokushima, with a gabled tile roof, lean-to eaves all round, a three-room earth floor and storage.

The lower wing of Wadanoya at the foot of Otakiyama in Tokushima, a timber shop of 1953 with a rice-cake toasting area, is a long-established local shop.

The Ashio Copper Mine Telephone Museum in Nikko, a 1951 exchange at the mine that had Japan's first private telephone in 1886, looks like a modern house of its day.

The Ota Family Residence Front Gate and Stone Wall in Sano is an early Showa granite gateway in a 3.9 m dressed-stone wall, its lintel topped by two carved lions.

A board wall of about 1950 by the JR Ryomo Line in Ashikaga, 21 meters long and 2.4 meters high, with a lattice bar near the top and braces on its garden side.

A small timber kagura hall of 1937 beside the great stairway of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, on a low plinth with a hip-and-gable roof.

The 1937 reinforced concrete main buildings of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with timber eaves and wings said to echo the Phoenix Hall of Byodoin.

The 1937 timber office of Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, with a cusped-gable porch and a basement that makes its cliff side look two storeys high.

A small 1937 purification pavilion on the approach to Orihime Shrine in Ashikaga, Tochigi, registered in 2004, built like the shrine in concrete with a timber gabled roof.

Built around 1937 between two older buildings at Itamuro Onsen, the Kadoya Ryokan Annex sets plain tatami guest rooms against German plaster walls and sash windows.

Tucked away at the innermost end of Itamuro Onsen in northern Tochigi Prefecture, Katoya Ryokan Yusenkaku is a graceful two-story wooden inn building completed in 1952. Together with the Main Building (1919) and the Annex (late Taisho to early Showa), it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2016. With its gable roof, irimoya-style entrance canopy, and tokonoma alcoves of finely selected woods, Yusenkaku embodies the renewed confidence of post-war Japanese inn architecture. Discover the strongly alkaline 'medicinal waters of Shimotsuke' alongside a rare ensemble of three eras of ryokan design.

Matsugamine Catholic Church in Utsunomiya, built in 1932 to a design by Swiss architect Max Hinder, is a concrete church faced with Oya stone under twin towers.

A 1932 mortared-stone sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 25 m long and 17 m high, with a deep spillway and triangular wing walls. Registered in 2002.

A 1933 sabo dam on the upper Inari River in Nikko, 64 m long and 20 m high, whose curved training walls and angled weir turn the falling water. Registered in 2002.

The former Nanma Hotel annex of about 1929, moved from Nikko to Mashiko, Tochigi, was the wartime refuge of the then Crown Prince and keeps its Gozasho room.

The Kogomedaira dam of 1931 in Nikko, Tochigi, a masonry gravity dam keyed into a gorge, is the uppermost of the Home Ministry era sabo dams on the Inari River.

The Sugita Sake Brewery Oya Stone Storehouse in Oyama, Tochigi, built around 1947 for sweet potato shochu, pairs lower Oya stone walls with timber above them.

The Tanuma Residence front gate in Ashikaga is a formal single-bay yakuimon of 1935, set back from the old Reiheishi road with wing walls and a stone forecourt. Private.