Shōwa

On Nagoya's Horikawa canal, the Former Kato Shokai Building is a 1931 office built by a Siam trader and consul, once the Siam consulate, now a Thai restaurant.

An iron turntable of 1927 at Taketoyo Town in Aichi, only 7.5 metres across. Two tracks cross it at right angles, a freight-yard type that survives nowhere else.

Built in 1929 as a Nagoya Bank branch, the Former Tsushima Shinkin Bank Head Office is an all-concrete provincial bank, registered in 2006 and now free to enter.

Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete block gate in Tokoname, Aichi. Iron lattice leaves slide across a 5.0 meter opening below punched-out lettering.

Horiguchi Sutemi designed this 1961 concrete hall in Tokoname, Aichi: purple tile, triangular roof lanterns, a silver gallery. Registered 2023. Free entry.

Alone in Toyokawa farmland, the Former Toyokawa Telephone Loading Coil Tower is a six-metre concrete relic of the 1928 Tokyo to Kobe line, Japan's first long cable.

Honda Tadatsugu built this Spanish-style house in Tokyo; Okazaki City rebuilt it beside Higashi Park in 2012 and it gained registered status in 2014. Free to enter.

The newest of the nine Yamashige buildings, raised in 1950. Inside, a room for applying overglaze decoration to ceramics survives, north of the Middle Warehouse.

Built in 1947, this office supported the firm's postwar export growth. Facing the new road east, it has a plastered reception room and an entry porch.

The firm's Middle Warehouse, its king-post truss left exposed inside. Used in the electric-kiln era, its build year differs between sources, as the article notes.

Built in the early Showa era to store ceramics, roofed by a large king-post truss that opens a column-free floor. It stands north of the New Shed on the slope.

Kirakutei is a two-story wooden ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) built from the late Taisho to early Showa periods, now located within the Toyota Industrial and Cultural Center in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. Once a prestigious inn that hosted notable figures including statesman Takahashi Korekiyo and Prince Takamatsu, it was registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2013 for its refined traditional architecture and historical significance.

Discover Eikōkan (Glory Hall), the 1936 Spanish-style auditorium of Kinjo Gakuin High School in Nagoya. A Registered Tangible Cultural Property and the sole survivor of the WWII air raids on campus, it stands as a symbol of faith and resilience.

Built around 1949 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this L-shaped house joins living quarters to a storehouse wing and once held a women's dormitory. It was registered in 2020.

Built around 1955 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small block held separate bathing rooms for men and women next to a row of lavatories, and was registered in 2020.

Built around 1948 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this single room under king-post trusses has held raw wool for its whole life. It joined the national register in 2020.

A 1932 wool mill in Ichinomiya, Aichi, registered in 2020. Its four sawtooth bays draw steady north light onto Schoenherr looms that still weave suiting cloth.

Built around 1932 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small office wears a boarded Western exterior yet holds two ten-mat tatami rooms upstairs. It was registered in 2020.

Built around 1957 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this two-room timber store closes the line of buildings along the mill's western edge. It joined the register in 2020.

Built around 1952 in Ichinomiya, Aichi, this small block left its ground floor open as a passage and store, with three bedrooms above. It was registered in 2020.