Shōwa

The 1933 central building of Hitoyoshi Ryokan, a riverside hot-spring inn in Kumamoto, with four rooms per floor and varied wooden lattice, now registered heritage.

On the Kuma River in southern Kumamoto, this 1953 guest wing of a working inn is a Registered Tangible Cultural Property, reopened in 2022 after a major flood.

Registered in 2013, the 1930s East Wing of Kumamoto's Hitoyoshi Ryokan keeps a fan-shaped alcove window and fine-timber rooms, rebuilt after the 2020 flood.

The Fujisaki Family Residence (Sekishokan) Basket Shed in Tanoura, Kumamoto, is a long early Showa-era shed for baskets and firewood whose wall doubles as a fence.

The Yano Family Residence (Shintaku) Main House in Nishihara, Kumamoto, was built in 1929 by a village head of the Yano branch family, with a formal zashiki.

An early Showa wall on the west edge of the Yoshimura compound in Kawashiri, Kumamoto: concrete posts, mortared slag-brick panels and a cap of peaked tiles.

A 1938 wing of Kinparo Ryokan at Hinagu Onsen: an 80-mat upstairs hall with a woven boat-bottom ceiling and natural-timber alcoves, plus a 15 m brick chimney.

The early Showa gate and wall of Kinparo Ryokan at Hinagu Onsen: a 2.3 m roofed gate with slatted transom and a 26 m tiled wall of boards and clay, registered 2009.

Discover the Ikaho Kanko Hotel, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Ikaho Onsen, Gunma. Built in 1929 as a Western-style hotel for foreign guests, this wooden three-story building with a five-tiered pagoda tower offers a window into early Showa hospitality and the resort town's international heritage.

At the north exit of JR Maebashi Station, No. 1 of the Jomo Soko warehouses is a 1949 concrete building dressed as an older storehouse. The silk firm still works here.

At the centre of the Jomo Soko yard, No. 7 is the largest warehouse at 463 square metres. Built in 1950, it stored grain, not silk, under an exposed timber truss.

An early-Showa fireproof storehouse at the west end of the Ogino Family Residence in Shimonita, Gunma, with a hipped roof and truss framing. Registered in 2009.

Concrete gravity sabo dam of 1951 at the head of the Karasu River in Takasaki, Gunma, 67 metres long and 18 metres high, faced in masonry with water pouring over it.

An open-sided well shelter of 1935 behind the Bathhouse on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, its central well ringed by river stones, serving a large household.

A small 1935 gate facing the Villa on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, with a melon-motif openwork panel, spaced rafters and a gently curved gabled roof.

A 38.6-meter inner wall of 1935 on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, plain in design but precisely built, absorbing the slope of the ground along its east run.

At 2.9 meters the shortest structure on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma: a sukiya-style inner wall of boards, gray plaster and open latticework.

A 9.9 m² bath building of 1935 behind the Main House on the Kawabata estate in Fujioka, Gunma, glazed on many sides and split into a changing room and a bath.

The Former Aikawa Family Residence Rear Gate and Wall in Isesaki, Gunma, is an early Showa udegimon gate on a lane, its 25-metre wall angled to form a forecourt.

Perched at Torii Pass 1,390 m above sea level, this is the surviving summit terminus of a short-lived cable railway that ran for barely a decade in the late 1950s and 1960s. Designated a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2018, the reinforced-concrete station and its stub-end platform now host a panoramic café and railway museum operated year-round by Hobonichi Co., Ltd.