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Hoki Museum
The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.
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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.
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.
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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 Shinshoji
Five Edo-period halls are Important Cultural Properties; the pagoda is carved and painted to the last column.
ChibaArt & CraftsKatori
Katori Jingu
Holds a National Treasure Tang-dynasty mirror; its black-lacquered hall was built by shogun Tsunayoshi.
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Sawara Historic District
A river-trade town said to have outshone Edo itself; its canal-side merchant houses still trade.
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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.
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.
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.
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Sugimura Sojinkan Memorial Museum
The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.
ChibaContemporary ArtFuttsu
Nokogiriyama Quarry
Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.
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.
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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.
ChibaArchitectureIchinomiya
Villas of Ichinomiya
Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.