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Sakura Samurai Houses
Three samurai houses of different ranks stand side by side - stipend made visible in built form.
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ChibaArt & CraftsNarita
Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
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.
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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.
ChibaArt & CraftsKyonan
Stone Buddhas of Nokogiriyama
A 31-metre Buddha and 1,553 rakan carved from the quarry face - an industry that turned into sculpture.
ChibaContemporary ArtFuttsu
Nokogiriyama Quarry
Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.
Futtsu
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.