Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

Built in 1847, the main house of the Someya residence in Kashiwa ranks among western Chiba's largest farmhouses, its L-shaped earthen wing recalling a headman's life.

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.

The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara City, Chiba, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. This former clinic blends a Western-style white clapboard exterior with a traditional Japanese black-tiled irimoya roof, telling the story of modern medicine meeting rural Japan.

The Chiba Reimei Gakuen Seitokan in Yachimata City, Chiba Prefecture, is a single-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1924 as a combined auditorium and martial arts hall. Featuring a distinctive modified truss structure and half-hipped roof reflecting post-Great Kanto Earthquake engineering, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013. Discover this rare surviving example of Taisho-era architecture in Japan's premier peanut-producing region.

Built in 1889 along the historic Edogawa waterway in Nagareyama, the Former Terada-en Shop is a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property. This black-lacquered kura-style merchant storehouse, the only one of its kind remaining on Nagareyama Honcho main street, now serves as a kaleidoscope gallery and Japanese tea cafe.

Tomoe Bridge in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, is a single-arch stone bridge built in 1906 by a local stonemason. Having survived the Great Kanto Earthquake tsunami and wartime tank crossings, it is registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property as one of the few remaining Meiji-era stone arch bridges in the Kanto region.

The Japan Evangelical Lutheran Ichikawa Church Hall, located along the Mama River in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture, is a wooden church designed by architect William Merrell Vories in 1955 and registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2008. Its white walls and four-story bell tower reflect Spanish colonial influences.

In Narashino, Chiba, an eight-square-meter roof over a well holds a national cultural property listing, registered in 2003 within a grain wholesaler's compound.

Built in 1891 to hold grain, this two-story earthen kura survives from a Tsudanuma merchant's estate in Narashino, with battened siding and bold interior beams.

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.