Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

In Narashino, Chiba, the Hirose Family Residence Main House preserves a late-Edo grain merchant's rooms and Boso farmhouse details, built by a temple carpenter.

Near Tokyo in Narashino, the Hirose family's 1909 grain warehouse is a Registered Cultural Property built without earthen walls, using densely set, board-clad posts.

In Tateyama, Chiba, the Beniya Store residence sits beside a shop made from an earthquake-surviving storehouse. From about 1926, it is a registered property.

After the 1923 earthquake levelled his shop, a Tateyama hardware merchant rebuilt in 1924 from a relocated storehouse, now the area's last quake-era kura shop.

In Chonan, central Chiba, a small Meiji storehouse held the Hoshino pharmacy's dispensary. Registered with the shop and gate, it looks much as in 1895.

The Hoshino Family Pharmacy in Chōnan, Chiba, is a Meiji-era black-plastered earthen shop on a former post-town street, still selling medicine after a century.

A wooden 1866 gate fronting a pharmacy that has served Chonan's old post town for 300 years, its angled wing walls forming a forecourt to welcome travelers.

Built in 1871 by the Edo River, this Noda wharf merchant's house keeps three boat-inn rooms upstairs and a flood-gated brick wall—a rare relic of river trade.

On Noda's old Edo-River wharf, the Masuda family's early-Showa storehouse hides earthen walls behind mortar scored to mimic stone, a relic of lost river trade.

In Noda, a former Edo River shipping family kept a Fudo Myo-o shrine under a square meter, built with the carpentry of a real shrine hall. Exterior view only.

In Noda, Chiba, a brick wall once doubled as flood defense: grooves at its ends held boards to dam the Edo River, fronting a Meiji-era river merchant's home.

A small tiled gate at a river-wharf merchant's house on the Edogawa in Noda, surviving beside a brick flood wall as a rare trace of the river's lost boat trade.

At a Nagareyama temple stands the Matsugaoka Type 1 Street Lamp, a fluted concrete post residents built to light their 1950s estate, the last of its kind intact.

Discover Maruya, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property in Kamagaya City, Chiba. This former Edo-period hatago inn on the Kioroshi Kaido preserves the atmosphere of a bygone post town, with connections to literary travelers and even a future emperor.

Discover Maruya Hanare, a nationally registered tangible cultural property in Kamagaya City, Chiba. This refined Meiji-period annex of a former Kioroshi Kaido post-town inn once hosted Crown Prince Yoshihito, later Emperor Taisho.

Built in 1919, this two-storey earthen okugura stands among nine registered buildings at the Miya brewery in Futtsu, Chiba—home of Tamasa soy sauce since 1834.

Built in 1907 at an 1834-founded brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, this earthen storehouse once held rice and now stores soy-sauce barrels under a Meiji-era truss roof.

In Sanuki, a former castle town in Futtsu, Chiba, Miya has brewed soy sauce since the Edo period. The 1892 main house is one of nine registered buildings.

The Motegi Shichiroemon Family Residence Shin-gura in Noda City, Chiba Prefecture, is a Taishō-era storehouse built by one of the founding families of Kikkoman soy sauce. Registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property in 2018 along with 17 other structures on the estate, it bears witness to the prosperity of Japan's soy sauce industry. The adjacent Kotohira Shrine opens for worship on the 10th of each month.

Discover the Mukai-gura storehouse at the Motegi Shichiroemon Residence in Noda, Chiba — a Registered Tangible Cultural Property from the Edo period, reflecting the legacy of a soy sauce brewing family that helped found Kikkoman.

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