Taishō

Odaka Memorial Hall in Tateyama City, Chiba Prefecture, is a Western-style wooden building originally constructed around 1922 as a Furukawa Bank branch and relocated to its present harborside location in 1930. With its white clapboard walls and red iron roof, this nationally registered tangible cultural property now serves as a fair trade café, continuing to weave its century-long story on the scenic Boso Peninsula coast.

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.

In Kamogawa, the Suzuki sake brewery's 1923 detached annex pairs an open ten-mat tokonoma room and a full south veranda with a stone store hidden under white plaster.

A late-Taisho thatched farmhouse in Chikura, southern Boso, rebuilt after the 1923 quake. A registered property keeping the area's bamboo ridge and segai eaves.

Sunosaki Lighthouse, first lit in 1919 on Chiba's Bōsō Peninsula, is an early concrete tower. A line linking it to Tsurugizaki marks the legal edge of Tokyo Bay.

The well-house at the Someya residence dates to 1922. Under its open frame is a white-tiled brick well, and a plate reads Hoshinoi, the sake the family once brewed.

The bathhouse at the Someya residence dates to about 1923. A vent tops the ridge, and inside are bath, changing room and firebox. A bay window shows 1920s comfort.

The Takeda Family Residence in Ichihara City, Chiba, is a nationally registered tangible cultural property. This former clinic blends a Western-style white clapboard exterior with a traditional Japanese black-tiled irimoya roof, telling the story of modern medicine meeting rural Japan.

The Chiba Reimei Gakuen Seitokan in Yachimata City, Chiba Prefecture, is a single-story wooden Western-style building constructed in 1924 as a combined auditorium and martial arts hall. Featuring a distinctive modified truss structure and half-hipped roof reflecting post-Great Kanto Earthquake engineering, it was registered as a National Registered Tangible Cultural Property in 2013. Discover this rare surviving example of Taisho-era architecture in Japan's premier peanut-producing region.

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.

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.

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.