Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

A goods shed of around 1925 at Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, its log posts set back from the track to leave room for loading on the platform.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Tsurumai Station, built around 1925, keeps its ceiling, diagonal-jointed floor and ticket window. Registered as a model of good design.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Murakami Station, built around 1927: a tiled half-hip block and a tin lean-to shelter joined by one long canopy, still in daily use.

Kominato Railway's Kazusa Yamada Station, built around 1925: a 9-by-4.5-meter timber core smaller than any standard state-railway station of its day. Still in use.

A thermal power-station building of around 1925 at Kazusa Tsurumai, where the Kominato Railway generated power for its station and nearby homes. How to view it.

A timber engine shed and smithy built around 1925 at Goi, where the Kominato Railway begins. Two tracks run into the 20-meter shed, its machinery still intact.

Kominato Railway's Satomi Station, end of the line in 1925, keeps its original interior and exterior and lacks the signal-office bay of state-railway stations.

A three-span steel bridge of around 1925 on the Kominato Railway, its 20-foot plate girders built to a 1919 state-railway standard. Where and how to see it.

Kominato Railway's six-span steel bridge over the Yoro River, built around 1925, mixes 19-meter and 13-meter girders to suit the channel. Where to see it.

A two-span bridge of around 1925 on the Kominato Railway, carried on 15-foot rolled I-beams rated among Japan's largest of the Taisho era. How it differs.

Kominato Railway's four-span bridge over the Yoro River, built around 1925 on girders stamped by Yokogawa Bridge Works in 1924, resting on oval concrete piers.

A four-span bridge of around 1928 carrying the Kominato Railway high over the Yoro gorge on tall round piers, its red girders made by Yokogawa Bridge Works in 1927.

Kominato Railway's Takataki Station, built around 1925: posts set twice as far apart on the track side as at the entrance so passengers could pass freely.

A 77-meter concrete platform of around 1926 at Kominato Railway's Tsukizaki Station, edged with concrete blocks and just 61 centimeters above the rails.

Kominato Railway's Tsukizaki Station of around 1926: a gabled timber building with a front porch and a 76-meter concrete platform, registered as a model of design.

A curving concrete tunnel of around 1926 on the Kominato Railway, 135 meters long, cast in place, its gradient changing from 1 in 88 to 1 in 330 midway.

Kominato Railway's Yorokeikoku Station, built around 1928, fronts the road with a steep gable and porch; at 96 square meters it is the line's largest station.

The main house of the Kondo Family Residence in Yotsukaido, Chiba, is a hipped-roof farmhouse of 1908, built after the family moved to make way for army grounds.

The storehouse of the Kondo Family Residence in Yotsukaido, Chiba, built about 1907, pairs boarded walls with white plaster and framed windows with sliding doors.

The nagayamon gate of the Kondo Family Residence in Yotsukaido, Chiba, built in 1907, is a tall nine-bay gatehouse whose builder signed the ridge-raising arrow.