Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Enomoto Family Residence Main House in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa two-storey home with bracketed eaves, south-facing rooms and a hardwood alcove rail.

The Enomoto Family Residence Kettle House in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa hearth building with a ridge smoke vent, open lean-to and beams over an earthen floor.

The Enomoto Family Residence North Storehouse in Abiko, Chiba, is an earthen kura dated 1884 by an inscription, with stepped plaster doors and an exposed roof frame.

The Enomoto Family Residence Main Gate in Abiko, Chiba, is an early Showa yakuimon of heavy zelkova, with 3 beams carrying the eaves and tall stacked ridge tiles.

The Enomoto Family Residence Annex in Abiko, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji reception wing with a writing bay, crane and turtle fittings and a carved waterbird transom.

The Oya Ryokan in Otaki, Chiba, an inn of about 1885 beside the approach to Isumi Shrine, bears its name in plaster and once lodged the poet Masaoka Shiki.

The Odaka Memorial Hall in Tateyama, Chiba, a Taisho-era bank building moved near the port about 1930, has sash windows and a corner entrance and is now a cafe.

Obara Family Residence Front Gate, Tateyama, Chiba: a mid-Meiji yakuimon gate with massive posts, a gently swelling gabled roof and tiles bearing the family crest.

Obara Family Residence Former Nagayamon Gate, Tateyama, Chiba: a late Edo gatehouse remnant keeping its paved passage, western quarters and double-beam roof.

Obara Family Residence Rice Storehouse, Tateyama, Chiba: a c.1845 earthen storehouse, the oldest on the estate, with a through-post and sloping beams inside.

Obara Family Residence Main House in Tateyama, Chiba: a c.1859 farmhouse remodeled in 1896, with a six-room plan and side alcoves on both sides of the tokonoma.

Obara Family Residence Detached Wing, Tateyama, Chiba: a c.1929 guest pavilion with a reception room, a tea room, a round window and tinted plaster moldings.

Obara Family Residence Document Storehouse, Tateyama, Chiba: an early Showa earthen storehouse with stepped-plaster kakegonuri shutters and a timber-lined interior.

Kaunkaku, a two-storey hall of about 1900 at Katori Shrine in Chiba used for gatherings and ritual feasts, has a karahafu entrance and blends into the precinct.

A thatched late Edo farmhouse at the heart of a Mobara peony garden, with an earth-floored west end and four rooms. Open as a tea room for three weeks each spring.

A thatched nagayamon gatehouse of 1837, dated by its ridge tablet, now the entrance to a Mobara peony garden. Its west side was once a retirement room for the elder.

A late Meiji house on the Tokyo Bay shore in Futtsu, first a doctor's home in Kururi castle town, moved twice and settled here by a fishing master in early Taisho.

A late Meiji salt merchant's house on the old Gyotoku Kaido in Ichikawa, with a gently swelling porch roof flanked by copper-roofed lattice bays and fine joinery.

A late Meiji brick wall around a salt merchant's lot in Ichikawa: 34 meters long, one brick thick in Flemish bond, braced by buttresses, topped with a brick coping.

A hipped-roof house of 1900 in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with a dragon carved over the writing alcove and a pine and hawk over the partition. Registered in 2017.

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