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Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.
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Inage Civic Gallery
The seaside villa of a wine magnate, a rare 1918 reinforced-concrete house detailed with grape motifs.
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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.
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National Museum of Japanese History
The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.
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Sakura City Museum of Art
Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.
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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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Naritasan Calligraphy Museum
Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.
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Ino Tadataka Museum
The man who began surveying Japan on foot at 55; his National Treasure maps are beautiful for their sheer accuracy.
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Inubosaki Lighthouse
Designed by the British engineer Richard Brunton from 193,000 Japanese-made bricks, and still in service.
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Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.
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Ichihara Art Mix
Staged in closed schools along a single-track railway, so the journey itself becomes part of the viewing.
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Boso no Mura
A full-scale reconstructed Edo town where craftsmen actually work in the buildings.
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Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall
In the city where the great postwar Nihonga painter lived, built to echo the German architecture he studied among.
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Yoshizawa Garden Gallery
A donated private house turned gallery, its small shows viewed against the garden.
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Shirakaba Museum
Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.
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Sugimura Sojinkan Memorial Museum
The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.
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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.
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Tokyo Bay Kannon
A 56-metre concrete Kannon raised for the war dead, climbable by 324 steps to shoulder height.
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Oyama Terraced Rice Fields
Three hundred and seventy-five rain-fed terraces drawing contour lines that change colour with the season.
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Shibayama Haniwa Museum
A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.
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Byobugaura Cliffs
Ten kilometres of 50-metre cliffs, their horizontal strata standing like a folding screen.