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埼玉県 · Art & museums

Farmstead Woods of Kawajima

川島町県央

Storehouses raised on flood mounds and homes ringed by windbreak woods - living with water made visible.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Chichibu 34 Kannon Temples

秩父市秩父

A hundred-kilometre pilgrimage linking Kannon halls scattered through mountains and valleys.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Nishikawa Timber of Hanno

飯能市西部

Timber rafted down to Edo from these hills; sawmills and woodworkers still shape the town.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Safflower of Ageo and Okegawa

桶川市県央

Second only to Mogami as a safflower district, sending rouge dye to Edo; the merchants' storehouses remain.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Warabi Post Town

蕨市県央

A post town on the Nakasendo, its street plan still legible in the surviving townhouses.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Sayama Tea Fields

入間市西部

Tea rows follow the contours like drawn lines - geometry produced by agricultural logic.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Joinery of Tokigawa

ときがわ町西部

A joinery town whose craftsmen now fit out public buildings with local timber.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Waterways of Misato and Yashio

三郷市東部

The rivers that fed Edo; their dykes and sluices still divide the flat landscape.

埼玉県 · Art & museums

Omiya Bonsai Village

さいたま市県央

Founded by growers who left Tokyo after the 1923 quake, with street widths and hedges written into its rules.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Chiba Prefectural Museum of Art

千葉市千葉

Centred on Chu Asai, a founder of modern Western-style painting in Japan, in a low horizontal building by Masato Otaka.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Chiba City Museum of Art

千葉市千葉

Outstanding in Edo painting and ukiyo-e; its entrance hall is a 1920s bank wrapped inside the new building.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Hoki Museum

千葉市千葉

The world's first museum devoted solely to photorealist painting, its steel gallery cantilevered 30 metres into the air.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Kasori Shell Mounds

千葉市千葉

Among the world's largest shell mounds; a cut section shows 5,000 years of deposit as a standing wall.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba

千葉市千葉

The prefecture's central museum, designed as one with the ecological garden outside it.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Inage Civic Gallery

千葉市千葉

The seaside villa of a wine magnate, a rare 1918 reinforced-concrete house detailed with grape motifs.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art

佐倉市北総

One of the few places on earth showing Rothko's Seagram murals in a dedicated darkened room; it closed to the public in 2025.

千葉県 · Art & museums

National Museum of Japanese History

佐倉市北総

The national museum of Japanese history, known for reconstructing whole streets and buildings at full size.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Sakura City Museum of Art

佐倉市北総

Its entrance is a 1918 brick-and-stone bank; inside, modern art connected with the Boso peninsula.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Sakura Samurai Houses

佐倉市北総

Three samurai houses of different ranks stand side by side - stipend made visible in built form.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Naritasan Shinshoji

成田市北総

Five Edo-period halls are Important Cultural Properties; the pagoda is carved and painted to the last column.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Naritasan Calligraphy Museum

成田市北総

Japan's largest museum for modern calligraphy, and one of the first to display writing as fine art.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Katori Jingu

香取市北総

Holds a National Treasure Tang-dynasty mirror; its black-lacquered hall was built by shogun Tsunayoshi.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Sawara Historic District

香取市北総

A river-trade town said to have outshone Edo itself; its canal-side merchant houses still trade.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Ino Tadataka Museum

香取市北総

The man who began surveying Japan on foot at 55; his National Treasure maps are beautiful for their sheer accuracy.