Shōwa

In a Nagoya garden, the small tea house Chisokuan reworks the National Treasure tea room Joan, adding a trapezoidal alcove and a low host's-seat ceiling.

Nagoya's Tamesaburō Memorial Hall East Gate is a small sukiya gate, registered as a national cultural property in 2018, opening onto a garden villa and tea house.

A tiny cedar-bark waiting arbor in the garden of Nagoya's Tamesaburo Memorial Hall, set along the path to the teahouse Chisoku-an and registered in 2018.

At Chiryū Shrine in Aichi, this 1954 cypress-bark worship hall fronts a rare Owari-style layout in Mikawa, registered in 2014 near the shrine's older pagoda.

Located on the campus of Tokai Junior and Senior High School in Nagoya's Higashi Ward, the Tokai Gakuen Great Hall is a steel-frame reinforced concrete auditorium completed in 1931 to commemorate Emperor Shōwa's enthronement. Its bold façade blends Frank Lloyd Wright–inspired aesthetics with German Expressionist motifs, and it was registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 1998.

Dodantei in Owariasahi is a sukiya villa built in 1942 around a 1723 Hida farmhouse. Its adze-hewn beams, Noh-themed garden, 2008 registration, and access.

Standing in Dotoku Park in Nagoya's Minami Ward, this 9.7-meter whale fountain was crafted in 1927 by concrete sculptor Goto Kuwagoro. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the memory of land once submerged beneath Ise Bay, delighting visitors with its hand-operated water spout mechanism for nearly a century.

Completed in 1935 and registered in 1997, this Nagoya gallery sets green-glazed tiles and shachi ridge figures over rampart-like walls of steel-framed concrete.

Built in 1935 and registered in 1997 on the same day as the Main Building it adjoins, this concrete store keeps its collection behind walls with almost no openings.

Registered in 2014, this waiting shelter of 7.5 square meters carries a fan of bark-on poles overhead, a copper pyramid above, and one bench along its east side.

Built in 1934 behind the main hall of Tokujuji in Inuyama, Aichi, this registered hall holds memorial tablets at one end and the founder's hall at the other.

Tokujuji Temple Entrance in Inuyama, Aichi, built in 1934, measures only 10 square meters, yet nearly all the carving at this Zen temple gathers on its front.

Built in 1934, Tokujuji Temple Bell Tower in Inuyama, Aichi, is one bay square, yet it uses two-stepped bracketing twice and a finely coffered ceiling.

The former special-classroom wing of Fujioka Junior High in Toyota, Aichi, built 1954 and listed 2017. Its king post truss, weatherboarding, and 2025 closure.

Built in the late 1920s for repeaters on Japan's first Tokyo-Kobe long-distance cable, this pilastered concrete building in Toyokawa, Aichi, was registered in 2007.

An outbuilding of the former Toyokawa relay station in Aichi, this 38-square-metre concrete box rounds every corner, a soft mass set against the sharp main block.

Toyohashi Public Hall in Aichi, completed in 1931 to Nakamura Yoshihei's design, listed 1998. Corinthian loggia, hemispherical domes, eagles, and visiting notes.

This small 1928 concrete bridge once carried Toyohashi's drinking water across the Ōe River, its sphere-topped posts and rounded parapet adding rare polish.

Five concrete slow sand filter basins from 1929 still treat Toyohashi's water at the active Kotakano plant, a rare survival of gentle biological filtration.

This 1929 pump room at the Kotakano plant looks like solid masonry, with crisp geometric ornament around its windows. It still runs, dosing chemicals since 1981.