Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Chiba

The Nemoto Family Residence South Storehouse in Abiko is a 2-storey plastered storehouse of 1867, with a west lean-to holding its doorway and a small room.

The Nemoto Family Residence Household Shrine in Abiko is a late-Meiji garden shrine of 0.6 m², with a stone base, 5 wooden steps and a ridge set with tomoe crests.

Two-storey hipped-roof guest wing of about 1918 on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, the oldest of Hakkakutei's five buildings, visited by Crown Prince Tsugu-no-miya in 1946.

Three-storey timber inn wing of 1937 on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, tallest of Hakkakutei's five buildings, with an ebony alcove post and a woven ajiro stair ceiling.

Small early Showa games-room building at Hakkakutei in Togane, a timber structure dressed in mortar scored to look like stone, under a hipped roof of red pantiles.

Early Showa two-storey inn building on Hakkaku Lake in Togane, with a 60-mat hall under a Yakusugi coffered ceiling and upstairs rooms each with its own little roof.

Early Showa single-storey bathhouse at Hakkakutei in Togane, with an L-shaped plan and a family bath decorated with chequered tiles and diamond and round openings.

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.

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.