Shōwa

Discover the Oishi Family Residence in Toyooka City's Tanto area - a remarkable collection of 15 traditional farm buildings dating back to 1875. Learn about these registered cultural properties showcasing Meiji-era rural architecture in Hyogo Prefecture.

Discover the Kinosaki Onsen Ropeway Onsenji Station, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property built in 1962. This architectural gem connects visitors to the ancient Onsenji Temple while offering stunning views of Japan's most famous hot spring town.

Discover the Kinosaki Onsen Ropeway Summit Station, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring Michelin-starred views, Kurobe Dam construction techniques, and mid-century modern architecture atop Mt. Daishi.

Discover the Kinosaki Onsen Ropeway Base Station, a 1962 Registered Tangible Cultural Property featuring distinctive vault-style architecture. This gateway to Michelin-starred views connects ancient Onsenji Temple with panoramic vistas of the Sea of Japan, offering a unique blend of modern design and traditional onsen culture.

Explore the nationally registered cultural property of Kuroda Seiemon Shoten's outer wall in Miki City, Hyogo. This Edo-era merchant house preserves Japan's traditional hardware industry heritage along the historic Yunoyama Kaido road.

Ten Showa-period distillery buildings in Hokkaido. Their own dates differ from one building to the next, and each one of them is approximate here now.

Discover the Koshikawa Bridge, Hokkaido's largest unreinforced concrete railway bridge. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property that stands as a testament to wartime engineering and a poignant memorial to those who built it.

Discover the Former Hane Gakuen Kumano Higher Commercial School Building, a newly registered tangible cultural property in Shingu City, Wakayama. This 1937 Western-style school features a unique abacus-decorated entrance, representing Japan's pre-war commercial education heritage.

Discover Cafe Paris (1927), a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Chichibu. Experience authentic Showa-era atmosphere, traditional omurice, and stunning signboard architecture just 80 minutes from Tokyo. A living heritage restaurant run by the same family for four generations.

Held at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, this 1953 hanging scroll by Yasuda Yukihiko (1884–1978) depicts Konohana-no-Sakuyabime—the goddess of Mount Fuji and cherry blossoms from the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. Designated a Registered Work of Art in 2019, it is recognized as one of the artist's representative masterworks of modern Nihonga.

101 objects, 19 Noh masks, 80 costumes, and 2 instruments, handed down in a Hyuga merchant family and now a Registered Art Object at the Kyushu National Museum.

Discover Karasawa Dam, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property on the upper Kamanashi River. Built in 1950, this stone-faced gravity concrete sabo dam is the first and largest erosion control structure on the river's main channel, protecting the scenic highlands of Hakushu near the Southern Japanese Alps.

Discover the Aichi Prefectural Government Building, an Important Cultural Property blending Western modernism with Japanese castle aesthetics. Located near Nagoya Castle, this 1938 landmark showcases the rare Imperial Crown Style (Teikan Yōshiki).

Nagoya City Hall, finished in 1933 and still in daily use, sets tiled Japanese roofs on a Western frame. Its marble atrium and 100-metre corridor are free to walk.

Built in 1936 and reopened in 2021 after eight years of repair, this Nagoya glasshouse is Japan's oldest public conservatory and an early all-welded building.

Completed in 1954 and designated in 2022, Nagoya TV Tower was Japan's first shared broadcast tower. On Naito Tachu's engineering, its seismic retrofit and visiting.

Clad in brown scratch tile, this 1928 schoolhouse on Aichi Gakuin University's Kusumoto campus in Nagoya was designed by a pupil of the architect Suzuki Teiji.

Two reinforced-concrete pillars built in 1938 still mark the entrance to Nagoya's Asahigaoka High School, a campus with roots in an 1870 school of Western studies.

Cast in reinforced concrete around 1929, the gateposts of Nagoya's Ishin High School carry Secession-style ornament and were registered as cultural property in 2017.

Two granite gateposts have framed Okazaki's Iwazu High School since 1937, topped with a 54-centimetre stone hemisphere and registered as cultural property in 2017.