Shōwa

A 1930 earthen storehouse at a Chichibu silk wholesaler's, 5 by 2 ken, with clay-packed double doors on its entrance and every window. It stands beside Storehouse A.

The storehouse of the Former Koshundo Clinic in Minano, Saitama, built in 1934, has stepped plaster doors and a fan relief on its gable, and once held medical gear.

The 1934 workshop of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu joins a sawtooth shed and a gabled dye shed in a clapboarded L, now part of Chichibu Meisenkan.

The 1930 warehouse of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, has a ventilation roof and a corridor whose roof wraps three sides.

The 1930 office of Saitama's textile testing station in Chichibu, now Chichibu Meisenkan, pairs an Ōya-stone base with an outsized Wright-style porch.

An early Shōwa rice store of Bōshū stone on a headman's estate in Koshigaya, Saitama, with a stone cornice and timber frames keeping rice bales off the damp walls.

Built in 1934 by the Moroi family, postmasters here since 1872, this Honjo landmark wraps a Japanese timber frame in tile and Art Deco lines on the old Nakasendo.

Wooden shop-house of the early Showa era on a corner of Bamba-dori, the approach to Chichibu Shrine, with a rounded, ornamented street front; now a cafe.

A 1931 reinforced concrete water tower in Kodama, Honjo, Saitama, designed by prefectural engineer Miyahara Yujiro. Now a time-signal tower, registered in 2000.

Kondo Dental Clinic in Chichibu, Saitama: a 1927 wooden surgery and home in an L-shape, half-timbered with rough render facing the street, Japanese-style behind.

Former Sakata Clinic in Menuma, Kumagaya: a 1931 reinforced-concrete obstetric clinic faced in scratch tiles, with Art Deco lamps and early Showa medical equipment.

A 1954 concrete memorial on Mount Taikan in Ogose, Saitama, registered in 2020, enshrining remains of the unidentified dead, with a curved ossuary and fluted front.

Taiyoken in Kawagoe, a restaurant building of about 1929, recalls the rebuilding after the Kanto earthquake with an expressionist corner and pointed window.

A 1928 eight-span steel girder bridge carrying the old Nakasendo over the Koyama River in Saitama, registered in 2008, with granite parapets and brick abutments.

Clubhouse of 1963 by Antonin Raymond at the Tokyo Golf Club in Sayama, Saitama, with log posts and beams and a lodge-like lounge round a fireplace; members only.

A foundry family's house of about 1938 in central Kawaguchi, Saitama, its hip-and-gable pantile body fronted by a projecting Western wing in glazed tile.

A 1953 timber nursery building in Fukaya, Saitama, across the prefectural border from its parent church in Gunma and modeled on the main school. Registered 2008.

A registered wooden archery hall in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 by the physician Takagi Tasuku, with arrow-feather window bars and bow-curved ceiling battens.

Target house of a private archery range in Kuki, Saitama, built around 1932 and registered in 2023. Fourteen square metres, open at the front, an earth bank inside.

Maze Dam in Honjo, Saitama: a 1937 concrete gravity dam, 126 m long and 28 m high, with a timber house on its intake tower, built for the Kodama irrigation canal.