Shōwa
昭和Browse Japan’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by prefecture, type, and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Akashi City Astronomical Science Museum in Hyogo, a concrete complex of 1960, has a planetarium and a 53-metre clock tower keeping Japan Standard Time.
The main house of the Ashida Family Residence in Amagasaki, built in 1931, sets red-ochre posts and shutters against black plaster walls; a former local landmark.
The Ashiya Buddhist Hall in Hyogo, a concrete lecture hall of 1927 paid for by Ito Chobe of Marubeni, mixes Eastern and Indian details and still hosts talks.
The Atago Bridge at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a bowed concrete footbridge of 1926 with lanterns on its posts, marks the start of the walk to Atago Shrine.
The Kaimei Building of Amagasaki City Hall, a concrete school of 1937 laid out in an L, has a quarter-round entrance hall below a half-cylinder stair tower.
The Osho Community Hall in Amagasaki, the former Osho village office of 1937 by Murano Togo, has brown tile walls and ornament of birds of prey and plants.
A 1933 bracket-arm gate on a street in Ashiya Midorigaoka: gabled pantiles, copper eaves and adze-marked board doors. Registered 2024. A private home.
Inaoka Family Residence Detached Wing, Kasai: an early Showa guest wing of two eight-mat rooms, with a one-room Western annex in French tile and rough render.
The Ohashi Bridge at Kinosaki Onsen, Hyogo, a concrete skew bridge of 1927 over the Otani River, has lantern-topped posts over 3 metres tall that accent the town.
An early Showa two-storey living wing on the north edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: two six-mat rooms on each floor, ceilings that differ by level.
An early Showa service wing west of the main house in Tanto, Toyooka: a two-storey woodshed and the Oku-uchiniwa link, with exposed framing and lattice windows.
An early Showa storehouse on the north edge of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: a tall single-storey volume with evenly spaced windows under an okiyane roof.
An early Showa brick water tank behind the main house of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: concrete basin, 2.3-metre arched brick top. Registered 2011.
An early Showa yakuimon-style garden gate on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka, 1.4 metres wide with widely spaced rafters, dividing the garden. Registered 2011.
An early Showa earthen wall wrapping the northeast corner of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 16 metres on fieldstone with a bracketed gate. Registered 2011.
An early Showa timber wall on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 5.0 metres of boards and plaster, a sliding door and a stepped roof. Registered 2011.
An early Showa earthen wall lining the road on the south side of the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: 48 metres of mortar-faced earth on fieldstone. Registered 2011.
An early Showa gate and wall linking two storehouses on the Oishi estate in Tanto, Toyooka: a 1.3-metre sliding door and a short roof on brackets. Registered 2011.
This eleven-square-metre storehouse at Otsuchi Shrine in Kobe holds ritual gear behind walls broken only by one door and a vent. Built 1929, registered in 2016.
Built around 1929, Otsuchi Shrine's joined worship and offering halls in Kobe pair the plainest bracketing with a wide coffered ceiling. Registered in 2016.