Shōwa (昭和町, Shōwa-chō) is a town located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.

At the beginning of October, 2020 the daily temperature ranged from 26.0 °C to nightly low of 15 °C [2] Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Shōwa has grown rapidly over the past 50 years.

The area of present-day Shōwa was part of a shōen in the late Heian period controlled by Minamoto no Yoshikiyo, the ancestor of the Takeda clan.

In the Edo period, along with the rest of Kai Province, the area was tenryō territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate.

After the Meiji restoration, the area was organized into villages within Nakakoma District, Yamanashi with the establishment of the modern municipalities system on July 1, 1889.