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.

4,593 total Shōwa Period 1926 – 1989
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Haruna River Upstream Sabo Dam
Gunma 昭和中
Haruna River Upstream Sabo Dam

Completed in 1955 above Haruna Shrine in Takasaki, this 69-metre erosion-control dam is faced in diagonally coursed stone. Free to visit, five minutes on foot.

Shinobu-no-Yu at the Hiroike Chikuro Oana Memorial Museum (former cave hot spring)
Gunma 昭和前
Shinobu-no-Yu at the Hiroike Chikuro Oana Memorial Museum (former cave hot spring)

At Ōana Onsen in Minakami, Gunma, this bath sits deep in a tunnel hewn into the bedrock, where Moralogy's founder Hiroike Chikuro convalesced. It was listed in 2025.

Hiroike Chikuro Oana Memorial Hall Dressing Room
Gunma 昭和前
Hiroike Chikuro Oana Memorial Hall Dressing Room

At Ōana in Minakami, this changing room has a double cedar-bark roof and an exposed king-post truss. Hiroike Chikuro died at this site in 1938; it was listed in 2025.

Hiroike Chikuro Tanigawa Memorial Hall Altar
Gunma 昭和前
Hiroike Chikuro Tanigawa Memorial Hall Altar

At Tanigawa in Minakami stands a shrine of about 7.3 square metres enshrining Amaterasu, clad in cedar bark and built in 1936. It was listed in 2025.

Reitakukan at the Hiroike Chikuro Tanigawa Memorial Museum (former main house and bathhouse)
Gunma 昭和前
Reitakukan at the Hiroike Chikuro Tanigawa Memorial Museum (former main house and bathhouse)

At Tanigawa Onsen in Minakami stands Reitaku-kan, a single-storey retreat with a bath on its east end. Hiroike Chikuro stayed here in his final years; listed in 2025.

Hirosegawa Museum of Art (Former Studio of Kondo Yoshio and La Bonne Painting School)
Gunma 昭和中
Hirosegawa Museum of Art (Former Studio of Kondo Yoshio and La Bonne Painting School)

Studio-home built in 1948 by the painter Kondo Yoshio beside the Hirose River in Maebashi, Gunma, with an International Style front; a small art museum since 1997.

Hoshi Onsen Chojukan Annex
Gunma 昭和前
Hoshi Onsen Chojukan Annex

The Hoshi Onsen Chojukan Annex is a 1940 two-story guest wing beside the Hoshi River in Minakami, Gunma, with plastered walls and glass doors facing the water.

Maebashi Catholic Church
Gunma 昭和前
Maebashi Catholic Church

Reinforced-concrete church of 1932 in Maebashi, Gunma, with twin towers square below and octagonal above and a vaulted nave; it survived the wartime air raid.

Motojuku Water Purification Plant Rapid Filtration House
Gunma 昭和前
Motojuku Water Purification Plant Rapid Filtration House

Art Deco rapid filtration house of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, with a symmetrical stepped front and British Candy filters still in operation.

Motojuku Water Purification Plant Junction Well
Gunma 昭和前
Motojuku Water Purification Plant Junction Well

Junction well of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, gathering groundwater for the pumps, 11.1 metres deep and ringed by a low stone-effect circular wall.

Motojuku Water Purification Plant Regulating Reservoir
Gunma 昭和前
Motojuku Water Purification Plant Regulating Reservoir

Concrete regulating reservoir of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, 15.2 by 21.1 metres and 3 metres deep, with evenly spaced vents and a stone stair.

Motojuku Water Purification Plant Pump Room
Gunma 昭和前
Motojuku Water Purification Plant Pump Room

Pump room of 1932 at the Motojuku plant in Kiryu, Gunma, with scratch-tile walls and strong verticals outside and Art Deco lamps and brass rails inside.

Morishima Family Residence West Storehouse
Gunma 昭和中
Morishima Family Residence West Storehouse

A c.1951 three-story store at Kiryu's Morihide silk mill, built for raw silk on the site of an older kura, with two floors of storage topped by an 8-mat tatami room.

Morihide Textiles Former Factory
Gunma 昭和中
Morihide Textiles Former Factory

A sawtooth weaving shed of 1946 at the Morihide works in Kiryu, extended around 1952, keeping central posts and loom pulleys; now the Yukari museum exhibition room.

Yoshida Family Residence Izumisho Goten
Gunma 昭和前
Yoshida Family Residence Izumisho Goten

Reception house of 1927 of an oil-merchant family in Takasaki, Gunma, moved in 1990, lavished with inlay, lacquer and carving; a modern Japanese-style landmark.

Watarase Keikoku Railway Karasawa Bridge
Gunma 昭和前
Watarase Keikoku Railway Karasawa Bridge

Tiny steel bridge of 1936 on the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Hanawa in Midori, Gunma, with a standard trough girder holding the rails low between two beams.

Watarase Keikoku Railway Godo Station Staff Rest House
Gunma 昭和前
Watarase Keikoku Railway Godo Station Staff Rest House

Timber staff rest house of 1928 at Godo Station on the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, with a six-mat room, forming one group with the station building.

Watarase Keikoku Railway Teburiyama Flume
Gunma 昭和前
Watarase Keikoku Railway Teburiyama Flume

Concrete flume of 1930 over the Watarase Keikoku Railway in Midori, Gunma, carried on old rails to shed rain and debris into the river, with a trumpet channel.

Watarase Keikoku Railway Yoshinosawa Flume
Gunma 昭和前
Watarase Keikoku Railway Yoshinosawa Flume

Concrete flume of 1935 on old rails over the Watarase Keikoku Railway at Sori in Midori, Gunma, built to keep weathered granite and rain off the line below.

Memorial Cathedral for World Peace
Hiroshima 昭和
Memorial Cathedral for World Peace

Reinforced-concrete cathedral in Hiroshima by Murano Togo, dedicated on August 6, 1954 to mourn the atomic bomb victims, with a 45-metre bell tower and brick walls.