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千葉県 · Art & museums

Inubosaki Lighthouse

銚子市北総

千葉県 · Art & museums

Ichihara Lakeside Museum

市原市上総

A bold conversion of an existing building, its terraces and outdoor works blurring the edge between architecture and lake.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Ichihara Art Mix

市原市上総

Staged in closed schools along a single-track railway, so the journey itself becomes part of the viewing.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Boso no Mura

栄町北総

A full-scale reconstructed Edo town where craftsmen actually work in the buildings.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tojotei

松戸市北総

Built by the last shogun's brother; the only Meiji-era Tokugawa residence surviving nearly intact.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall

市川市千葉

In the city where the great postwar Nihonga painter lived, built to echo the German architecture he studied among.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Yoshizawa Garden Gallery

市川市千葉

A donated private house turned gallery, its small shows viewed against the garden.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Shirakaba Museum

我孫子市北総

Where the Shirakaba writers gathered by the lake - and where Soetsu Yanagi first conceived the mingei movement.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Sugimura Sojinkan Memorial Museum

我孫子市北総

The home of a Taisho-era journalist, preserved with his photographs and papers.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Stone Buddhas of Nokogiriyama

鋸南町南房総

A 31-metre Buddha and 1,553 rakan carved from the quarry face - an industry that turned into sculpture.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Nokogiriyama Quarry

富津市上総

Quarrying left vertical walls and rectangular voids - a landform composed entirely of straight lines drawn by people.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Torozaka Daishi Tunnel

富津市上総

A passage cut downward through sandstone by hand; chisel marks cover the walls as light falls vertically.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tokyo Bay Kannon

富津市上総

A 56-metre concrete Kannon raised for the war dead, climbable by 324 steps to shoulder height.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Oyama Terraced Rice Fields

鴨川市外房

Three hundred and seventy-five rain-fed terraces drawing contour lines that change colour with the season.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Shibayama Haniwa Museum

芝山町北総

A district dense in figural haniwa, each with its own face and hairstyle - the Kofun people made specific.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Byobugaura Cliffs

銚子市北総

Ten kilometres of 50-metre cliffs, their horizontal strata standing like a folding screen.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Yamasa Soy Sauce Works

銚子市北総

Three hundred and eighty years of brewing; wooden vats and modern factory halls share one site.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Soy Sauce Town of Noda

野田市北総

A company town built on soy sauce, its skeleton formed by brick factories and brewers' mansions.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tateyama City Museum

館山市南房総

On the Satomi warlords and the sea-facing life of southern Boso.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Ishidoji

南房総市南房総

Five Muromachi buildings designated together - by far the best medieval architecture on the peninsula.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Fishing Hamlets of Kamogawa

鴨川市外房

Fishing hamlets packed into each cove, board-clad houses layered above stone revetments.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Shojoji of Kisarazu

木更津市上総

The temple of the tanuki drumming song; its badger statues have made a folktale into a local emblem.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Kujukuri Beach

九十九里町外房

Sixty kilometres of straight sand, shaped by the sardine seine nets and the huts that served them.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Katsuura Hina Festival

勝浦市外房

Thirty thousand dolls fill the town, and a shrine's sixty stone steps become a tiered display.