Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan
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An 1842 storehouse in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, the oldest building on the Akiba estate: clapboarded below, lime-plastered above up to the eaves. Registered 2017.
An early Meiji gatehouse on the south side of the Akiba estate in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with curved adze-dressed beams and bracketed eaves. Registered in 2017.
Late-Meiji reception wing behind a Sakura kimono shop: a 6-mat main room with alcove and shelves, grey plaster walls and wide ceiling boards. Registered in 2019.
A mid-Meiji kimono shop on Shinmachi Street in Sakura, with a hipped front roof, deep lean-to and earth-floored shop room. Registered in 2019; now a restaurant.
An 1892 two-storey earthen storehouse behind a Sakura kimono shop, with finely stepped kakegonuri shutters and plaster-backed ridge tiles. Registered in 2019.
A 23-square-metre outbuilding on Iwasaki Hisaya's Chiba estate, its Oya stone walls faced in scratch tile right through the cornice. Registered 2013; exterior only.
Built in 1927 for Iwasaki Hisaya on his Chiba model farm, this registered villa hides concrete footings and gypsum board behind shoin rooms. Open since 2025.
A 1933 merchant house on the Kururi highway in Kimitsu, Chiba, registered in 2009. It sold sickles and bamboo well-drilling parts in a town of artesian springs.
In Chōshi, the former Kōsei Kaikan is a 1926 concrete hall a soy-sauce magnate built for adult education, with a Secession entrance and a cantilevered film booth.
The Former Saito Family Residence Inari Shrine is a tiny mid-Meiji shrine in Ichinomiya, Chiba, carved with lions, clouds, waves and a dragon signed by its maker.
The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a c.1897 single-storey home behind the family shop, with three tatami rooms facing a garden.
The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Matsudo, Chiba, is a thatched farmhouse of 1901 set by a bamboo grove, open free from Tuesday to Saturday.
The Former Saito Family Residence Storehouse in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji kura with beams in three tiers, the only Saito building listed as a model.
The Former Saito Family Residence Shop Storehouse is a two-storey plastered shop of mid-Meiji Ichinomiya with triple windows and a moulded cornice, now a café.
A 1955 timber branch school in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2021. Just two classrooms sit along one corridor, built to prewar conventions after the war ended.
An 1876 thatched house in Narita's Sanrizuka Memorial Park that passed from an American adviser's home to farm office, then to an imperial guesthouse in 1919.
A reinforced-concrete shelter under a grass mound in Narita, ordered by the Imperial Household Ministry and finished on 8 December 1941, the day war began.
A late Edo samurai house in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2016. Its plan splits guests from family into two rows, and the tatami room omits nageshi entirely.
The Nishihiro cannery in Choshi began as a bonito workshop, rebuilt in 1935 with timber trusses over a columnless hall and a tatami office above. Registered in 2018.
Choshi's Nishihiro main house joins an 1877 merchant hall to a 1937 cypress wing, with the Inubosaki coast carved into its alcove window. Registered in 2018.
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