Shōwa
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The North Wing of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, built in about 1950, has a kitchen below and banquet rooms above, with a grand alcove and a phoenix-carved ceiling.
The entrance building of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, a timber restaurant of about 1950, sits back from the lane under a hip-and-gable roof with two rooms inside.
The South Wing of Imahan Annex in Asakusa, Tokyo, built in about 1950, is an L-shaped two-storey guest wing whose rooms use choice timber in ceilings and transoms.
The Imahan Honten North Inner Zashiki, about 1956, is the youngest wing behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house: three rooms noted for kumiko lattice and woven ceilings.
The Imahan Honten West Inner Zashiki, built about 1951 behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house, has three rooms named for and lined with Kasuga, Yoshino and Jindai cedar.
The Imahan Honten East Inner Zashiki, about 1951, is the largest wing behind an Asakusa sukiyaki house: Pine, Bamboo and Plum rooms that open into one banquet hall.
The Ome Former Textile Processing Factory is a 1935 timber shed of 715 square meters under four north-lit sawtooth roofs, the largest of its kind left in the area.
Ome's Former Tokyo Metropolitan Textile Testing Station is a 1935 clapboard building with an arched, pedimented door, reopened in 2021 as Cinema Neko.
The Ome Former Receipt-Issuing Warehouse is a two-story Oya stone storehouse of about 1932 that from around 1952 issued warehouse receipts for the goods it held.
The Ome Textile Industry Cooperative Main Building is a 1940 wooden office with a hipped slate roof and an upstairs hall once used for Ome's juried textile fair.
The largest of five tea rooms at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo. Registered in 2006, it copies Urasenke's Totsutotsusai and pairs 8- and 6-mat rooms with a kitchen.
A 12-mat tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, built after the Katsura Imperial Villa, with a corridor on two sides and garden steps. Registered in 2006.
The only hip-roofed tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: a 6-mat room with a concealed altar, privy and waiting bench, where guests wait. Registered 2006.
The smallest tea room at Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: 3.5 mats after Oda Urakusai's Joan, with log posts and a shingled eave, linked to Yamabuki. Registered 2006.
An 8-mat tea room on the east side of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, praised for sukiya craft, with 11 arrow feathers set by the alcove and the entrance beside it.
A one-metre ridged gate in the central garden of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, roofed in cedar bark held with bamboo on slender braced log posts. Registered 2006.
A 1.5-metre ridged gate on the south side of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo, set back from the edge, with a copper roof, log posts and a diamond-lattice door face.
A 53-metre wall round three sides of Ohashi Saryo, Toranomon, Tokyo: log posts on Oya stone, rendered in mortar, doubling as tea-room walls. Registered 2006.
The Okada Nikki Shonin Memorial Auditorium in Suginami, Tokyo, built in 1937 for a girls' high school, is a concrete hall with tall pilasters and a curved balcony.
Ochanomizu University Front Gate, a 1936 granite-faced gate on Kasuga-dori in Tokyo, keeps its original lamps and wall grilles and is visible from the sidewalk.