Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

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.

Discover Mobara Ascension Church, a 1933 wooden Anglican chapel in Chiba Prefecture registered as a national Tangible Cultural Property, featuring half-timbered façade, Latin cross plan, and Tuscan-style porch columns.

Standing on the old Sakandana street in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, the Yamani Tsunashima Shoten shop building is a late Edo-period dry goods store founded in 1866. Registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, its distinctive architecture features two storehouse-style buildings of different heights arranged front to back. Discover the charm of this rare surviving merchant building that tells the story of Kisarazu's prosperous port town heritage.

Ryokan Matsunoya is a wooden two-storey Japanese inn in Katsuura, Chiba, founded in the late Edo period and rebuilt in the early Showa era. Designated a Nationally Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2003, it still operates as a working ryokan beside the famous Katsuura Morning Market—one of Japan's three great morning markets. This guide covers its karahafu entrance, hinoki cypress private bath, in-room seafood dinners, and surrounding attractions.