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 Mori Family Residence Main House in Mitsu, Matsuyama, is a 1929 merchant house clad in copper sheet above granite. Registered in 2010, it is a private home.
The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Main House, built in 1936 in Matsuyama, joins a sukiya plan, a ten-mat Western room and a tea room. Registered 2015; closed.
The Yatsuzuka Family Residence Waiting Arbor, a 1936 tea garden bench of 8.6 square meters, faces the tea room across the garden. Registered 2015; closed.
A dry-laid stone stand of 27 tiers running 170 metres beside an athletic ground in Niihama, Ehime, built in 1928 by Besshi copper mine staff and registered in 2009.
An erosion control dam on the upper Shigenobu River in Toon, Ehime, built by the prefecture in 901 days and faced with granite from the Seto Inland Sea.
The Former Yanaka Family Residence in Tsukuba, built in 1942 and 1949 by materials researcher Yanaka Ryujiro, became an Important Cultural Property in 2023.
The Arakawa Family Residence Main House, built in 1933 in Shimodate, sets an Art Deco mortar facade under a pyramidal Japanese roof. Exterior viewing only.
The Iwase Family Residence Middle Gate in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, is a tiled timber gate 2.5 meters wide that divides the grounds north from south. Registered in 2010.
The east gate of the Iwase residence in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki, was the everyday entrance to a former Edo village headman's compound. A registered cultural property.
Built in 1936 with funds donated by merchant Umezu Fukujiro, this former town hall in Hitachiota keeps its corner tower and scratch tile and is now a free museum.
The Owada Family Rental Store in Ishioka, Ibaraki, is a timber shopfront of about 1930 built to be let out, with a central column dividing it into two shop units.
Okusho Store and Main House in Yuki, Ibaraki, is a timber merchant house of 1935 that glazed its entire frontage yet kept the deep eaves of an older shop.
Discover the Kasama City Historical Folk Museum, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Ibaraki Prefecture. This 1937 wooden Western-style former town hall showcases early Showa civic architecture alongside archaeological and folk exhibits from the Kasama region.
Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building in Koga City is a Western-style timber building of 1935 with a corner watchtower, registered in 2004.
A single-storey timber wing of about 1935 behind the Kameya Shoji main building in Koga City, with stained glass and an umbrella-shaped ceiling, registered in 2004.
Kameya Shoji (Former Iijima Family Residence) Main Building Storehouse in Koga City is a 20-square-meter plastered store of about 1935, registered in 2004.
Built around 1932, Kisoba Tokyoan Store and Residence in Ishioka City turned a gabled Japanese roof to a street of Western shopfronts. Still a working soba shop.
The Kitaoka Family Residence in Makabe, Sakuragawa, is a 1931 single-storey shop house entered from its gable end, registered in 2004 and still a private home.
The Former Asakawa Elementary School Building No. 2, set deep in a quiet valley in Daigo Town, Ibaraki, is a single-story wooden schoolhouse completed in 1937. Together with the older 1913 Building No. 1, it is registered as a Tangible Cultural Property of Japan and continues in use today as a satellite campus for a correspondence high school. This guide introduces the building's history, architectural significance, surrounding sights such as Fukuroda Falls, and practical visitor information.
A 20-square-meter earthen storehouse of 1937 joined to the Japanese-style wing of the Uetake residence in Inashiki, Ibaraki, its mortar walls scored like stone.