Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

The Former Saito Family Residence Shop Storehouse is a two-storey plastered shop of mid-Meiji Ichinomiya with triple windows and a moulded cornice, now a café.

A 1955 timber branch school in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2021. Just two classrooms sit along one corridor, built to prewar conventions after the war ended.

An 1876 thatched house in Narita's Sanrizuka Memorial Park that passed from an American adviser's home to farm office, then to an imperial guesthouse in 1919.

A reinforced-concrete shelter under a grass mound in Narita, ordered by the Imperial Household Ministry and finished on 8 December 1941, the day war began.

A late Edo samurai house in Sakura, Chiba, registered in 2016. Its plan splits guests from family into two rows, and the tatami room omits nageshi entirely.

The Nishihiro cannery in Choshi began as a bonito workshop, rebuilt in 1935 with timber trusses over a columnless hall and a tatami office above. Registered in 2018.

Choshi's Nishihiro main house joins an 1877 merchant hall to a 1937 cypress wing, with the Inubosaki coast carved into its alcove window. Registered in 2018.

Choshi lost its old townscape in 1945; this net barn survived. Dated by tradition to the 1860s, it seals nets behind deep eaves and blank walls. Registered 2018.

Same design as its neighbour, three-fifths the size, one window moved from the upper gable to the ground floor. Two Keio-era net barns side by side. Registered 2018.

Oya stone at the base, three courses of local Choshi stone above, then English-bond brick corbelling out to a capped crown. Thirty-four metres, registered in 2018.

A 1931 single-storey wing of formal rooms behind a Sakura merchant's shop: altar and back rooms with verandas on a south garden, and a marble-lined guest lavatory.

A mid-Meiji merchant shop-house on Shinmachi-dori in Sakura, Chiba: a 2-storey gabled machiya whose open front still shows traces of lift-up shutters. Registered.

A 1917 two-storey earthen storehouse beside a merchant shop on a Sakura corner: artificial-stone skirting, white lime plaster above, linked upstairs to the house.

This concrete building in Kashiwa, Chiba, built for an army regiment in about 1938, trained searchlight crews under a canvas sky; only two such buildings survive.

The Kujukuri Church in Sanmu is a timber church of 1887 with plastered eaves and a hip-and-gable porch, said to have been founded with help from J. C. Hepburn.

Kominato Railway's Ama-Ariki Station, built around 1925: a hipped-roof timber depot whose front and rear lean-tos are trimmed with bargeboards. What to look for.

A straight 141-meter concrete tunnel of around 1928 near Yorokeikoku on the Kominato Railway, its block-built west portal battered back and grooved for drainage.

Kominato Railway's Umatate Station, built around 1925, keeps its original interior: board wainscot, ceiling, ticket window and parcels hatch. What to see.

Kominato Railway's longest tunnel, 421 meters of S-curving concrete built around 1928, its arch laid in concrete blocks and its horseshoe portals cast in place.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Ushiku Station, built around 1925 and enlarged as traffic grew, its additions clad to match. Now the end of the section still in service.