Shōwa
Shizuoka · 昭和Browse Shizuoka’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Ichinomiya River Bridge, located in Fukuroi City, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a historic railway bridge built in 1935 as part of the former JNR Futamata Line. Spanning 40 meters with a combination of steel plate girders and reinforced concrete approach spans, it features steelwork by Yokogawa Bridge Works using Yawata Steel. As one of 36 Registered Tangible Cultural Properties along the Tenhama Line, this prewar bridge contributes to the region's historic landscape.
The Tenryu Hamanako Railroad Operation District Rest House at Tenryu Futamata Station in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, is a single-story wooden building constructed in 1940 alongside the opening of the JNR Futamata Line. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, it preserves the heritage of an early Showa-era railway engine depot together with the turntable and fan-shaped engine shed.
A small two-storey storehouse of just 17 square metres tucked into the Tōzansō villa complex in Atami, Shizuoka. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2016 as part of a prewar villa ensemble, this modest auxiliary building once safeguarded the art collection assembled by Okada Mokichi—the very collection that would later form the foundational holdings of the celebrated MOA Museum of Art.
The Tozanso Main Gate in Atami dates from 1933. It is 3.6 meters wide and gabled, with kiln-varied tiles laid in a straight line and polished log posts.
Yamashita Kamesaburo built the Tozanso Tea House in Atami in 1940. Its main room has two hearths, a rough exposed beam frame and a ceiling packed with round bamboo.
Built around 1935 for banker Ishii Kengo, the Tozanso Detached Wing in Atami holds one fifteen-mat room under a boat-bottom ceiling ringed by woven panels.
Yamashita Kamesaburo built the Tozanso Annex in Atami in 1940 to receive guests. Staggered tatami rooms face Sagami Bay, with a low alcove and a tiled veranda.
Built in 1933 for banker Ishii Kengo, the Tozanso Main Building in Atami is a two-story villa with slender sukiya timberwork and a glass wall facing Sagami Bay.
At 17 square meters, the Tozanso Storage Shed in Atami is the smallest of the villa's seven registered buildings, with a half-sunken store and a matted room above.
Registered in August 2024, five months after the house behind it, this concrete gate and 34-metre glazed-tile wall are the part of the property the street sees.
On the streamside approach, this three-bay two-story gate shows degumi brackets below and two-stepped brackets above, marking a head temple’s rank. Registered 2019.
A south-facing meditation hall below a bluff, with a Bodhidharma image on its diagonal earthen floor and tatami platforms on both sides. Registered 2019.
Yomeikan is a two-story wooden villa built in 1939 in the sukiya architectural style, located in Momoyama-cho, Atami City, Shizuoka Prefecture. Originally commissioned as a private retreat by Takeji Tanabe, president of Honshu Paper Company, it features a tower-like second floor with ornamental railings and an elegant Japanese-Western hybrid design. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, Yomeikan offers sweeping views of Sagami Bay and preserves the refined craftsmanship of Atami's golden era of modern villa architecture.