Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

Kaunkaku, a two-storey hall of about 1900 at Katori Shrine in Chiba used for gatherings and ritual feasts, has a karahafu entrance and blends into the precinct.

A thatched late Edo farmhouse at the heart of a Mobara peony garden, with an earth-floored west end and four rooms. Open as a tea room for three weeks each spring.

A thatched nagayamon gatehouse of 1837, dated by its ridge tablet, now the entrance to a Mobara peony garden. Its west side was once a retirement room for the elder.

A late Meiji house on the Tokyo Bay shore in Futtsu, first a doctor's home in Kururi castle town, moved twice and settled here by a fishing master in early Taisho.

A late Meiji salt merchant's house on the old Gyotoku Kaido in Ichikawa, with a gently swelling porch roof flanked by copper-roofed lattice bays and fine joinery.

A late Meiji brick wall around a salt merchant's lot in Ichikawa: 34 meters long, one brick thick in Flemish bond, braced by buttresses, topped with a brick coping.

A hipped-roof house of 1900 in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with a dragon carved over the writing alcove and a pine and hawk over the partition. Registered in 2017.

An 1842 storehouse in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, the oldest building on the Akiba estate: clapboarded below, lime-plastered above up to the eaves. Registered 2017.

An early Meiji gatehouse on the south side of the Akiba estate in Torami, Ichinomiya, Chiba, with curved adze-dressed beams and bracketed eaves. Registered in 2017.

Late-Meiji reception wing behind a Sakura kimono shop: a 6-mat main room with alcove and shelves, grey plaster walls and wide ceiling boards. Registered in 2019.

A mid-Meiji kimono shop on Shinmachi Street in Sakura, with a hipped front roof, deep lean-to and earth-floored shop room. Registered in 2019; now a restaurant.

An 1892 two-storey earthen storehouse behind a Sakura kimono shop, with finely stepped kakegonuri shutters and plaster-backed ridge tiles. Registered in 2019.

A 23-square-metre outbuilding on Iwasaki Hisaya's Chiba estate, its Oya stone walls faced in scratch tile right through the cornice. Registered 2013; exterior only.

Built in 1927 for Iwasaki Hisaya on his Chiba model farm, this registered villa hides concrete footings and gypsum board behind shoin rooms. Open since 2025.

A 1933 merchant house on the Kururi highway in Kimitsu, Chiba, registered in 2009. It sold sickles and bamboo well-drilling parts in a town of artesian springs.

In Chōshi, the former Kōsei Kaikan is a 1926 concrete hall a soy-sauce magnate built for adult education, with a Secession entrance and a cantilevered film booth.

The Former Saito Family Residence Inari Shrine is a tiny mid-Meiji shrine in Ichinomiya, Chiba, carved with lions, clouds, waves and a dragon signed by its maker.

The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a c.1897 single-storey home behind the family shop, with three tatami rooms facing a garden.

The Former Saito Family Residence Main House in Matsudo, Chiba, is a thatched farmhouse of 1901 set by a bamboo grove, open free from Tuesday to Saturday.

The Former Saito Family Residence Storehouse in Ichinomiya, Chiba, is a mid-Meiji kura with beams in three tiers, the only Saito building listed as a model.

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