Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

The Nagayamon gate faces south along the front of the Someya estate, a gateway flanked by rooms east and west. It is held to be the oldest of the eight buildings.

The fertilizer shed at the Someya residence is a plain early-Meiji building. Its earthen floor is split in two for making and storing fertilizer for the fields.

The bathhouse at the Someya residence dates to about 1923. A vent tops the ridge, and inside are bath, changing room and firebox. A bay window shows 1920s comfort.

The document storehouse of 1867 is the second-oldest building at the Someya residence. Its thick plastered walls sheltered the archive that now dates the estate.

The front storehouse at the Someya residence dates to 1893 and began as a rice granary. Its plastered walls and namako base recall a farming family that also traded.

Registered in 2011, the late-Edo shoin at Daiganji in Chiba City arranges nine tatami rooms around shared verandas, preserving the plan of a Pure Land seminary.

Built in the mid-Edo period and registered in 2011, Daiganji Main Hall in Chiba City is one of very few surviving buildings from the Kanto Pure Land seminaries.

The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara, Chiba, a former clinic formed by joining two buildings in 1956, sets Japanese roofs over Western walls, a local landmark.

The student hall of Chiba Reimei Gakuen in Yachimata, Chiba, a timber assembly hall and dojo of 1924, has a dormered half-hipped roof on turnbuckle trusses.

Teradaen Old Store in Nagareyama, Chiba, a storehouse-style shop of 1889 near the Edo River, keeps its black-plastered walls and a broad shop floor at the front.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Rice Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 street-side store whose front half held rice and miso and rear half raised silkworms.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Main House in Noda, Chiba, is a hipped-roof wharf agent's home of around 1893 with a 1929 Western wing, moved whole in 1949.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Warehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1949 wharf store on the Edo River embankment, with an open lean-to and a boatmen's room upstairs.

The Tobe Goemon Family Residence Storehouse in Noda, Chiba, is a 1929 plastered kura with hooded windows, thick iron hooks and a two-tier drip ledge on its walls.

The Tomoe Bridge in Tateyama, Chiba, built in 1906 on bedrock over the Tomoe River, is a stone arch bridge of the Meiji era, rare in the Kanto region.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Chimney in Otaki, Chiba, is a 16-metre brick stack of about 1948, laid in English bond with a three-stepped head. Registered in 2011.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Factory in Otaki, Chiba, is an 1875 shed of 417 square metres: two gabled ranges under a lean-to, roof trusses left open. Registered 2011.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Sake Storehouse in Otaki, Chiba, is an 1875 store of 213 square metres, its ground floor one room on close-set posts. Registered in 2011.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Main House in Otaki, Chiba, is an 1874 tsushi-nikai machiya with deep degeta eaves and shutters, registered in 1999. Access notes.

Toyonotsuru Sake Brewery Rice Polishing House and Storehouse in Otaki, Chiba, is an early Meiji building of 114 square metres holding two rooms. Registered in 2011.

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