Shōwa

On Miyajima, this garden erosion-control works rebuilt a typhoon-hit valley as fieldstone dams and pools, Japan's first postwar civil-engineering cultural property.

Discover Ono Community Hall in Jinsekikogen, Hiroshima — a 1929 wooden schoolhouse registered as a national tangible cultural property. Explore its history, architecture, and rural highland charm.

This small open well house at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima shelters a stone well and the medium-hard water used in every batch of its sake. Registered in 2020.

Rising about twelve metres at Kanemitsu Brewery in Hiroshima, this English-bond brick chimney with a banded top is a landmark from the brewery's era of modernising.

Discover the Gate and Wall of Kanemitsu Sake Brewery in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan since 2020. Explore the historic brewery compound, its award-winning sake brands Kamo Kinshu and Sakura Fubuki, and the rich sake-making tradition of the Kurose district.

Built around 1953 beside the main house, this timber wing wraps a broad veranda toward a garden by Shigemori Mirei, its sukiya rooms planned as one with the view.

Discover Kanrankan, a nationally registered tangible cultural property on Shimokamagari Island in Kure, Hiroshima. This 1935 villa uniquely blends Chinese brick-style design with Japanese craftsmanship, standing along the scenic Seto Inland Sea coast.

Discover the Former Ōkusa Elementary School Hōanden in Mihara, Hiroshima — a rare stone structure from 1936 blending Doric columns with Japanese design. Registered as a Tangible Cultural Property, this unique monument offers a window into Japan's prewar educational history.

Discover the Former Onomichi City Hall Momoshima Branch Office, a 1954 wooden government building on Momoshima Island, now a Registered Tangible Cultural Property and creative guesthouse run by NPO ART BASE Momoshima. Explore its kingpost truss architecture, island art scene, and serene Seto Inland Sea setting.

Discover the Former Katano Bakery, a 1934 wooden bakery registered as a national tangible cultural property in the white-walled Edo-era post town of Joge, Fuchu City, Hiroshima Prefecture. A hidden gem of early Showa architecture and local bread-making heritage.

The Former Hinomaru Photo Studio, a three-story wooden building constructed around 1932 near Takehara's historic preservation district in Hiroshima Prefecture, is a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property. Discover the distinctive angular silhouette shaped by its trapezoidal lot, windows designed around photographic studio functions, and its fame as an anime pilgrimage site from the series Tamayura.

Discover Sakura Bridge (Sakurahashi), a registered tangible cultural property in Hiroshima Prefecture. This elegant 1937 steel arch bridge spans Lake Shinryu in Taishaku Gorge, offering stunning views of the gorge from the hiking trail and pleasure boats below.

This small early-Showa tea room off the annex covers just 10 square meters. Its two-mat space opens south and west to the garden, admitting light in a modern spirit.

This early-Showa gate and wall guard the site's east front. A single-bay armgate meets a 13-meter wall, both in fine zelkova, lending the boundary a quiet dignity.

Discover Shōraitei, a nationally registered tangible cultural property on Shimokamagari Island in Kure, Hiroshima. Originally built in 1936 by sukiya master Hirata Masaya, this exquisite tea pavilion features handcrafted chestnut engawa and a refined three-tatami-daime tea room.

Registered in 2011, Shorinbo's 1934 Onari-no-ma housed honoured guests: three rooms, a shoin alcove suite, and a bath at the rear. Deliberately plainer than the Kyakuden.

Seven of Shorinbo's eight buildings were registered for their landscape role. The 1934 Kyakuden alone was listed as a model of design: a late Shinshu audience hall.

Discover Tanaka Photo Studio, a registered tangible cultural property in Miyoshi, Hiroshima. Built in 1928 by local master builder Yoshikawa Soichi, this three-story wooden Western-style building features a distinctive Kaiser mustache window motif and mukuri curved roof entrance.

The Nakanotao Tunnel in Higashihiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a 327-meter-long agricultural irrigation tunnel that local farmer Kaichi Okita began digging alone with a hammer and chisel after a devastating drought in 1926. Featuring a pioneering reinforced concrete arch portal, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2000 and continues to channel water to Fukamichi Pond to this day — a monument to perseverance and early modern engineering.

The Nanzan Museum in Saizaki-cho Noji, Mihara City, Hiroshima Prefecture, is a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property—an early Showa-era Western-style building originally constructed as a medical clinic. Now a museum dedicated to Shimizu Nanzan (1875–1948), one of Japan's greatest metal engraving masters and Imperial Household Artist, it offers visitors an intimate look at the art of traditional Japanese metalwork and the artistic bond between Nanzan and his great-nephew, the renowned painter Hirayama Ikuo.