Shōwa

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1929 plastered kura with hooded windows, thick iron hooks and a two-tier drip ledge on its walls.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Chimney in Otaki, Chiba, is a 16-metre brick stack of about 1948, laid in English bond with a three-stepped head. Registered in 2011.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Shop in Otaki, Chiba, is an early Showa gable-fronted shop of 66 square metres, with a round window in an upstairs room. Registered in 2011.

An early Showa reinforced-concrete air raid shelter in a private garden in Ichikawa, Chiba, with a vaulted top, 30 cm walls and an L-shaped entry passage.

The Lutheran church in Ichikawa, Chiba, built in 1955 as one of Vories's last works, has white walls, round-arched windows and a four-storey bell tower.

Three-storey timber inn wing of 1937 on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, tallest of Hakkakutei's five buildings, with an ebony alcove post and a woven ajiro stair ceiling.

Small early Showa games-room building at Hakkakutei in Togane, a timber structure dressed in mortar scored to look like stone, under a hipped roof of red pantiles.

Early Showa two-storey inn building on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, with a 60-mat hall under a Yakusugi coffered ceiling and upstairs rooms each with its own little roof.

Early Showa single-storey bathhouse at Hakkakutei in Togane, with an L-shaped plan and a family bath decorated with chequered tiles and diamond and round openings.

In Narashino, Chiba, an eight-square-meter roof over a well holds a national cultural property listing, registered in 2003 within a grain wholesaler's compound.

In Tateyama, Chiba, the Beniya Store residence sits beside a shop made from an earthquake-surviving storehouse. From about 1926, it is a registered property.

On Noda's old Edo-River wharf, the Masuda family's early-Showa storehouse hides earthen walls behind mortar scored to mimic stone, a relic of lost river trade.

At a Nagareyama temple stands the Matsugaoka Type 1 Street Lamp, a fluted concrete post residents built to light their 1950s estate, the last of its kind intact.

An early Showa brick wall, 26 metres long and up to 4.3 metres high in Flemish bond, around the Inari Shrine corner of a Noda soy brewer's estate. Visible outside.

Mobara Ascension Church in Chiba, an Anglican chapel of 1933, has a Latin-cross plan, a half-timbered front gable and an entrance porch on paired Tuscan columns.

Built about 1955 at Ueno in Katsuura, this stone gate has granite piers 60 centimetres square and 2.4 metres high, with an opening of 4.0 metres. Registered in 2008.

Ryokan Matsunoya is a wooden two-storey Japanese inn in Katsuura, Chiba, founded in the late Edo period and rebuilt in the early Showa era. Designated a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, it still operates as a working ryokan beside the famous Katsuura Morning Market—one of Japan's three great morning markets. This guide covers its karahafu entrance, hinoki cypress private bath, in-room seafood dinners, and surrounding attractions.

The Onshi Lecture Hall of Kanshinji in Kawachinagano, Osaka, was built in 1930 from the imperial banquet hall of the 1928 enthronement, its ceiling intact.

Mengyo Kaikan in Osaka's Senba district, the cotton trade's clubhouse of 1931, hides rooms in many historical styles behind a plain front; tours run monthly.

Completed in 1953 by Mirei Shigemori, this stone garden at Kishiwada Castle sets nine rock groups after Zhuge Liang's eight battle formations, best seen from above.