ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art
Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.
Entries in Chiba51 entries
296 entries. Some places appear in more than one collection. Confirm visits with each facility.
51ShowingChibaArea12Themes
INSTAGRAM / 6
Instagram from Chiba (official accounts)
No posts linked to this category have been collected yet. Showing posts from the prefecture's official accounts, rotating every minute.
51 entries / page 1 of 3
ChibaArt & Crafts
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Chiba City Museum of Art
Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.
ChibaArt & CraftsChiba
Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Kasori Shell Mounds
Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.
ChibaMuseumsChiba
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
ChibaArchitectureChiba
Inage Civic Gallery
The seaside villa of a wine magnate, a rare 1918 reinforced-concrete house detailed with grape motifs.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art
One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.
ChibaMuseumsSakura
National Museum of Japanese History
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.
ChibaArt & CraftsSakura
Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.
ChibaArchitectureSakura
Sakura Samurai Houses
Three samurai houses of different ranks stand side by side - stipend made visible in built form.
ChibaArchitectureNarita
Naritasan Shinshoji
Five Edo-period halls are Important Cultural Properties; the pagoda is carved and painted to the last column.
ChibaArt & CraftsNarita
Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatori
Katori Jingu
Holds a National Treasure Tang-dynasty mirror; its black-lacquered hall was built by shogun Tsunayoshi.
ChibaArchitectureKatori
Sawara Historic District
A river-trade town said to have outshone Edo itself; its canal-side merchant houses still trade.
ChibaMuseumsKatori
Ino Tadataka Museum
The man who began surveying Japan on foot at 55; his National Treasure maps are beautiful for their sheer accuracy.
ChibaArchitectureChoshi
Inubosaki Lighthouse
Designed by the British engineer Richard Brunton from 193,000 Japanese-made bricks, and still in service.
ChibaArt & CraftsIchihara
Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.
ChibaContemporary ArtIchihara
Ichihara Art Mix
Staged in closed schools along a single-track railway, so the journey itself becomes part of the viewing.
ChibaArchitectureSakae
Boso no Mura
A full-scale reconstructed Edo town where craftsmen actually work in the buildings.
ChibaArchitecture
ChibaMuseumsIchikawa
Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall
In the city where the great postwar Nihonga painter lived, built to echo the German architecture he studied among.
ChibaContemporary ArtIchikawa
Yoshizawa Garden Gallery
A donated private house turned gallery, its small shows viewed against the garden.
ChibaMuseumsAbiko
Shirakaba Museum
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
ChibaMuseumsAbiko
Sugimura Sojinkan Memorial Museum
The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.