Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

Choshi lost its old townscape in 1945; this net barn survived. Dated by tradition to the 1860s, it seals nets behind deep eaves and blank walls. Registered 2018.

Same design as its neighbour, three-fifths the size, one window moved from the upper gable to the ground floor. Two Keio-era net barns side by side. Registered 2018.

Oya stone at the base, three courses of local Choshi stone above, then English-bond brick corbelling out to a capped crown. Thirty-four metres, registered in 2018.

A 1931 single-storey wing of formal rooms behind a Sakura merchant's shop: altar and back rooms with verandas on a south garden, and a marble-lined guest lavatory.

A mid-Meiji merchant shop-house on Shinmachi-dori in Sakura, Chiba: a 2-storey gabled machiya whose open front still shows traces of lift-up shutters. Registered.

A 1917 two-storey earthen storehouse beside a merchant shop on a Sakura corner: artificial-stone skirting, white lime plaster above, linked upstairs to the house.

This concrete building in Kashiwa, Chiba, built for an army regiment in about 1938, trained searchlight crews under a canvas sky; only two such buildings survive.

The Kujukuri Church in Sanmu is a timber church of 1887 with plastered eaves and a hip-and-gable porch, said to have been founded with help from J. C. Hepburn.

Kominato Railway's Ama-Ariki Station, built around 1925: a hipped-roof timber depot whose front and rear lean-tos are trimmed with bargeboards. What to look for.

A straight 141-meter concrete tunnel of around 1928 near Yorokeikoku on the Kominato Railway, its block-built west portal battered back and grooved for drainage.

Kominato Railway's Umatate Station, built around 1925, keeps its original interior: board wainscot, ceiling, ticket window and parcels hatch. What to see.

Kominato Railway's longest tunnel, 421 meters of S-curving concrete built around 1928, its arch laid in concrete blocks and its horseshoe portals cast in place.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Ushiku Station, built around 1925 and enlarged as traffic grew, its additions clad to match. Now the end of the section still in service.

A goods shed of around 1925 at Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, its log posts set back from the track to leave room for loading on the platform.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, built around 1925, keeps its ceiling, diagonal-jointed floor and ticket window. Registered as a model of good design.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Murakami Station, built around 1927: a tiled half-hip block and a tin lean-to shelter joined by one long canopy, still in daily use.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Yamada Station, built around 1925: a 9-by-4.5-meter timber core smaller than any standard state-railway station of its day. Still in use.

A thermal power-station building of around 1925 at Kazusa Tsurumai, where the Kominato Railway generated power for its station and nearby homes. How to view it.

A timber engine shed and smithy built around 1925 at Goi, where the Kominato Railway begins. Two tracks run into the 20-meter shed, its machinery still intact.

Kominato Railway's Satomi Station, end of the line in 1925, keeps its original interior and exterior and lacks the signal-office bay of state-railway stations.

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