Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

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.

A former post-town hatago lodging house of about 1897 in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020, whose heavy frame and front shutters recall its original use.

A small but finely finished Meiji reception wing east of the former Maruya hatago in Kamagaya, Chiba, registered in 2020.

A small 1919 earthen storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, built for the family's belongings, with a grid of vents in the upper floor against damp.

A 1907 rice storehouse at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, now holding casks as a soy sauce store; its change of use records how the brewery grew.

The 1892 main house of a soy sauce brewing family in Futtsu, Chiba: a hipped-roof home with an alcove reception room, set among storehouses. Registered 2007.

The 1892 timber shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with carved eave beams and lift-up shutters still in use. Registered in 2007; open in shop hours.

The largest registered building at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: an 1872 storehouse whose eight wooden casks include six from the 1834 founding, behind white gables.

A 1925 reception wing at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery with prized timbers and fine joinery, the only one of nine buildings registered as hard to reproduce.

A 1907 moromi store at a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, where nine wooden casks hold fermenting mash with no artificial temperature control. Registered in 2007.

The oldest of nine registered buildings at a Futtsu soy sauce brewery: a late Edo earthen storehouse beside the shop, with double plastered doors facing the road.

An 1892 earthen storehouse beside the shop of a soy sauce brewery in Futtsu, Chiba, with doors on both floors of its gable and an early Western-style truss roof.

A simple late-Meiji bracket-arm gate, 2.1 metres wide, with board fences, closing off the main house garden on a Noda soy brewer's estate. Moved in 1971; not open.

A late-Edo storehouse said to have been moved from the Takanashi family in 1892, plastered black and white right up over the eaves. Registered 2018; not open.

An early-Meiji storehouse outside the walls of a Noda soy brewer's estate, beside the Kotohira Shrine path: tall but single-storey. Visible on the 10th monthly.

An early-Meiji storehouse for festival gear beside Kotohira Shrine, household shrine of a Noda soy brewing family, with an earthen floor. Visible on the 10th monthly

An 1896 open-sided hall for votive plaques at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, walled only at the back, with a bench inside. Visible on the 10th of each month.

A 1920 kagura stage at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine, with a karahafu roof copied from the main hall and a carved tengu mask. Seen on the 10th of each month.

An 1872 water pavilion at a Noda soy brewer's household shrine: just 2.2 square metres, yet built with leaning posts, bracket sets and a carved gable. Open the 10th.