Shōwa

A small early Showa office faced in scratch tile, with rounded corners and circular windows, set between a brick weaving shed of 1919 and a house of 1931.

Built in 1930 and registered in 2006, the only surviving station of the Kusakaru Electric Railway keeps Hosei University's initial worked into its entrance transom.

A two-storey wooden village hall of 1958, registered in 2020 and open free as Takasaki's folk museum, with its clerical floor and assembly chamber little altered.

Four reinforced-concrete posts faced in Oya stone, built in 1928, mark the street front of the former Serada village office in Ota, Gunma. Registered in 2005.

Built in 1928 in Ota, Gunma, this two-storey reinforced-concrete village hall keeps its U-shaped plan, an Oya stone base and a Lombard band along the parapet.

Built in 1938 to run Tatebayashi's geisha district, this rare surviving kenban office pairs a curved karahafu porch with a 36-mat hall and a rehearsal stage.

A 19-square-metre storehouse of 1929 that reads as a plastered dozo but is built of reinforced concrete, its roof framing copying the logic of a timber frame.

Built in 1927 inside a Kiryu silk mill compound, this timber house sets an Art Deco parlour against tatami rooms facing the garden. It now works as a restaurant.

A 1935 sawtooth weaving mill in Kiryu, Gunma, walled in Oya stone and registered in 2006. Converted in 1999, it now trades as a hair salon; view it from the street.

Two-storey timber storehouse of 1935 at the former Matsuoka Shoten in Kiryu, Gunma, fitted between the office and the house, with mortar walls and a separate roof.

Timber shop of 1935 in Kiryu, Gunma: an office, a fabric inspection room and a receiving area behind a brick-coloured tiled front with a relief and round window.

Built in 1938 as the record store of Manba town hall, this two-storey dozo in Kanna, Gunma pairs clay walls with a slate roof and iron doors. Now Gallery Yorozu.

Textile guild office of 1934 in Kiryu, Gunma, a timber Western-style building with scratch-tiled walls and green tiles, now the free Kiryu Textile Memorial Museum.

A 1932 reinforced concrete distribution reservoir on the Tsutsumi-cho hill in Kiryu, Gunma, registered in 1997, part of the city's early Showa waterworks.

Former waterworks storehouse of 1932 in Kiryu, Gunma, built of concrete but dressed as a traditional kura; now used as the community centre's plant room and store.

Former waterworks office of 1932 in Kiryu, Gunma, now the Nishi Community Center: Art Deco, with stone-scored walls, curved openings and a 1956 council floor.

Early-Showa public hall in Maebashi, Gunma, by Sato Koichi, facing the prefectural office he also designed; stone below, scratch tile above, and still in use today.

Prefectural office of 1928 in Maebashi by Sato Koichi, now the Showa Building, with scratch-tile walls and an arched porch; Gunma's first registered property.

The Koonji Temple Stone Storehouse in Chiyoda, Gunma, is a two-storey Ōya stone store of about 1933, with a tiled lean-to and hooded windows, registered in 1999.

A 1933 shelter at Goto Textile Mill in Kiryu over a stone-lined well 1.4 metres across, the source of dye water, with inward-leaning posts and iron walls.