Kasori Shell Mounds
Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
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Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.
The man who began surveying Japan on foot at 55; his National Treasure maps are beautiful for their sheer accuracy.
In the city where the great postwar Nihonga painter lived, built to echo the German architecture he studied among.
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.
A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.
On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.
Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.
Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.