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Stone Buddhas of Nokogiriyama
A 31-metre Buddha and 1,553 rakan carved from the quarry face - an industry that turned into sculpture.
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Nokogiriyama Quarry
Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.
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Torozaka Daishi Tunnel
A passage cut downward through sandstone by hand; chisel marks cover the walls as light falls vertically.
ChibaArt & CraftsFuttsu
Tokyo Bay Kannon
A 56-metre concrete Kannon raised for the war dead, climbable by 324 steps to shoulder height.
ChibaContemporary ArtKamogawa
Oyama Terraced Rice Fields
Three hundred and seventy-five rain-fed terraces drawing contour lines that change colour with the season.
ChibaMuseumsShibayama
Shibayama Haniwa Museum
A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.
ChibaContemporary ArtChoshi
Byobugaura Cliffs
Ten kilometres of 50-metre cliffs, their horizontal strata standing like a folding screen.
ChibaArchitectureChoshi
Yamasa Soy Sauce Works
Three hundred and eighty years of brewing; wooden vats and modern factory halls share one site.
ChibaArchitectureNoda
Soy Sauce Town of Noda
A company town built on soy sauce, its skeleton formed by brick factories and brewers' mansions.
ChibaMuseumsTateyama
Tateyama City Museum
On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.
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ChibaArchitectureKamogawa
Fishing Hamlets of Kamogawa
Fishing hamlets packed into each cove, board-clad houses layered above stone revetments.
ChibaArchitectureKisarazu
Shojoji of Kisarazu
The temple of the tanuki drumming song; its badger statues have made a folktale into a local emblem.
ChibaContemporary ArtKujūkuri
Kujukuri Beach
Sixty kilometres of straight sand, shaped by the sardine seine nets and the huts that served them.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatsuura
Katsuura Hina Festival
Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.
ChibaArchitectureIchinomiya
Villas of Ichinomiya
Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.
ChibaMuseumsMatsudo
Tojo History Museum
Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.
ChibaMuseumsFunabashi
Tobinodai Museum
Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.
ChibaMuseumsUrayasu
Urayasu City Museum
The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.
ChibaArchitectureChoshi
Choshi Electric Railway
A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.
ChibaArchitectureIchihara
Kominato Railway Stations
Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.
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ChibaContemporary ArtAbiko
Lake Tega and the Shirakaba Circle
The lakeside where Yanagi, Shiga and Mushanokoji all lived - the landscape behind the birth of mingei.
ChibaArchitectureNarita
Naritasan Approach
A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.