Shōwa
Tokyo · 昭和Browse Tokyo’s cultural heritage from the Shōwa period (1926 – 1989). Filter by type and keyword, with concise stories, maps, and travel tips.
The Matsui Residence gate and wall in Nishikata, Bunkyo, Tokyo, date from about 1932 and were registered in 2024. A doubled tile roof meets a 20-metre concrete wall.
The Mayuyama Ryusendo store of 1960 in Kyobashi, Tokyo, designed by Tohata Kenzo for an art dealer, frames its black plaster walls in stone with antique art in mind.
The Kengyo no Ma in Shinjuku, Tokyo, is the 1948 study of koto master Miyagi Michio, a small hipped-roof building with deep eaves and a refined six-mat room.
Museum 1999 in Shibuya, Tokyo, the former Chiba residence of 1934, fronts its dormered concrete block with a conical hall, a rare early Showa mansion in the city.
Morita Family Residence Wooden Fence is an early Showa fence in Akiruno, Tokyo, running 19 metres from the gate, with black battened boards on a stone base.
Doctor Mori's House in Bunkyo, Tokyo, a small timber house of 1951, is an early masterpiece of architect Seike Kiyoshi, with a free plan of sliding doors.
The Yasuyo Building at Shinjuku's east exit in Tokyo, a 1968 tower of octagons stacked at shifting angles, is a gem of architect Taniguchi Yoshiro's mature years.
My House, the architect Seike Kiyoshi's own 1954 residence in Ota, Tokyo, is a 51-square-metre one-room concrete house registered in 2017 as a standard for design.
Waro Flat No. 4 is a 1936 wooden apartment house on an Azabudai lane in Tokyo, registered in 2019. Its eight dwellings all differ and each gains a south window.