Shōwa

A 1938 house of a former purveyor on a hill above Nagaura Bay in Yokosuka, registered in 2022, combining a stick-style Western wing and a Japanese wing.

Oiso Church Chapel in Oiso, Kanagawa: a 1937 weatherboarded timber chapel on the old Tokaido, with gabled bays, a pointed-arch entrance and a Gothic-style altar.

A timber church of about 1930 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa, registered in 2003, with pointed-arch sash windows and a turret bearing a cross, shared with a kindergarten.

Built in 1940 on a Gora slope in Hakone, this timber lodge is entered at second-floor level. Registered in 2006, it keeps eight-mat rooms and a giboshu railing.

This 1952 single-storey entrance building holds the ticket window and museum shop, its wide south windows framing moss and maples across a stream. Registered 2024.

Built into a Gora hillside in 1953, this annex sets a hipped roof beside a pyramidal one, in blue tile, and now shows its founder's calligraphy. Registered in 2024.

Completed in 1952 to designs by founder Okada Mokichi, this three-storey Gora gallery pairs blue roof tiles with wide views over Shinsenkyo. Registered March 2024.

A timber shop and home of 1927 on the old Tokaido in Odawara, built four years after the Great Kanto Earthquake. Deep dashigeta eaves and a mukuri roof define it.

Hachidan Dam in Isehara, Kanagawa: a 1928 gravity sabo dam, 37 metres long and 11 high, faced in diagonal masonry near the source of the Kaname River.

The Fukuromachi Dam of 1929 at Oyama in Isehara, Kanagawa, is a masonry check dam by the pilgrim path up the sacred mountain, guarding village and path.

The Yamanokami Dam in Hadano, Kanagawa, built in 1932 by the Home Ministry on the Minase River, is a gravity sabo dam with an irrigation channel built into it.

The Yuasa Product Center on Kamakura's Wakamiya-oji is a 1936 kanban-kenchiku shop with a scratch-tile front and six framed arched windows on its upper floor.

A 6.6-metre marble obelisk of 1937 on the Tokiwadai campus, designed by Nakamura Junpei for Suzuki Tatsuji, the principal who ran his school without exams or marks.

A 399-square-meter, two-story reception hall at Ryukoji in Fujisawa, dated 1932 and said by the temple to be a silk merchant's Matsushiro mansion moved here in 1935.

Maekawa Kunio's first building, completed in 1932 after training under Le Corbusier. One of Japan's earliest modernist works, now an Important Cultural Property.

Built in 1937 by the Tsugaru Strait and moved to Namioka in 2008, this weatherboarded forestry office rings its gable window in scratch tile. Now a cafe and museum.

The old Ashino Koen station of the Tsugaru Railway in Goshogawara, Aomori, built for the line's opening in 1930, keeps its half-hipped gables and ticket counter.

A 1949 two-storey storehouse in Hirakawa, Aomori, registered in 2007, whose black plaster lintels are decorated with dragon-shaped swirls.

Built in 1943 at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji, the Mizugura is a half-buried concrete vault ringed by a stone moat that can be flooded to protect its art from fire.

Momiji is a 1927 guest wing at Arai Ryokan in Shuzenji. Two rooms, a wide veranda, Kyoto roof tiles, copper eaves and bengara-red walls give it a quiet Kyoto air in Izu.