Shōwa

Located in the Kyōjō district of Higashi-Iya, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture, the Kawai Hyakkaten is a historic general store that served the daily needs of one of Japan's most remote mountain communities in the Iya Valley. Registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019, this traditional wooden commercial building preserves the commercial heritage and historical landscape of a vanishing mountain village.

Kita Pharmacy in Nishi-Iya, Miyoshi City, Tokushima Prefecture, is a historic commercial building registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2019. Discover the history and charm of this traditional drugstore that served the remote mountain communities of the Iya Valley, one of Japan's three great secluded regions.

Saikyoji's 1930 sutra repository in Mima, Tokushima, packs a dormer gable, a cusped-gable porch and Edo-period bracket work onto a plastered 47-square-metre store.

Senkoin Hondo is an early Showa-period Shingon Buddhist main hall in Awa City, Tokushima, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2022. Discover its tile-roofed silhouette, tranquil interior, and the Shikoku pilgrimage region around it.

The Takahara Building in Tokushima City is a reinforced concrete Western-style building completed in 1932. Designed by Suzuki Teiji, the renowned architect known as 'the architect who built Nagoya,' it features scratch-tile walls and Romanesque ornamentation. The building miraculously survived the devastating 1945 Tokushima Air Raid thanks to its German-made fireproof windows and was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 1997.

A rare purpose-built puppet playhouse on a Tokushima high-school campus, built in 1965 with a two-tier stage and box seats, home to a living Awa puppet-theater tradition.

Hikiji-do is a small wooden hall built in 1928 in Tsurugi Town, Tokushima Prefecture. As the 36th sacred site of the Habashikoku 88-site pilgrimage—a regional miniature of the famous Shikoku circuit—it preserves a local Buddhist tradition. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property in 2017, the hall is notable for its hipped roof and distinctive front porch formed by an extended roofline.

Discover Wadanoya Honkan Shimomune, a nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property at the foot of Mt. Bizan in Tokushima, where the traditional Taki no Yakimochi has been crafted for over 400 years using the historic Kinryusui spring water.