千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Hokekyoji
市川市 千葉
It holds two documents in Nichiren's own hand as National Treasures. A hundred-day ascetic training is held here.
Read more →VALUE VILLAGE · DISCOVERY
Discover Japan
Explore shrines, travel, art and industry
地域 → 県 → エリア / 地域分级导航Compiled from supplied material, not independently verified item by item. Confirm opening hours, access and accuracy with the operator. Counts are records, not unique places.
296 records · 2/13
千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Ohi Jinja
船橋市 千葉
A lamp tower survives in its grounds: a lighthouse for the fishermen, kept up by the parishioners.
Read more →千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Katori Okumiya
香取市 北総
It enshrines the rough spirit of Futsunushi-no-Okami, standing quietly deep among the cedars.
Read more →千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Makata Jinja
佐倉市 北総
The head shrine of the eighteen Makata shrines around Lake Inba.
Read more →千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Manganji (Choshi)
銚子市 北総
It enshrines the Hundred Kannon of Bando, Chichibu and Saigoku together under one roof.
Read more →千葉県 · Shrines & temples
Sakuragi Jinja
野田市 北総
It carries the origin of the place name sakura, cherry. Cherry trees bloom here through all four seasons.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Ogoma
成田市 北総
A goma fire is lit every day. For road safety you can have the car itself blessed.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Sawara Dashi
香取市 北総
UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. The festival of a waterside town that prospered before the gate of Katori Jingu.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Narita Omotesando
成田市 北総
An approach 800 metres long, where eel restaurants split the fish in front of the shop.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Jigoku Nozoki
鋸南町 南房総
A rock ledge thrust out over a former quarry, with the whole Boso peninsula in view.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Inubosaki
銚子市 北総
The earliest sunrise of the new year on Honshu. A white lighthouse stands here.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Katsuura Hina
勝浦市 外房
One thousand eight hundred hina dolls on the sixty stone steps of Tomisaki Jinja.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Sawara
香取市 北総
Merchant houses along the Ono river. The town where Ino Tadataka learned to survey.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Mother Farm
富津市 上総
A hillside on Mount Kanozan, known for its rapeseed flowers and its sheep show.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Tainoura
鴨川市 外房
Shoals of red sea bream gather near the surface, bound up with the legend of Nichiren's birth.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Choshi Port
銚子市 北総
Among the top ports in Japan for landings. It carried the town alongside soy sauce.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Yoro Valley
大多喜町 上総
The largest gorge in Boso. The Awamata falls slide down a gentle rock face.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Kujukuri Beach
山武市ほか 外房
Sixty kilometres of sand. A shore of beach seines and sardine fishing.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Okinoshima
館山市 南房総
An uninhabited island joined to the land when the Great Kanto Earthquake lifted the ground.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Isumi Railway
大多喜町ほか 上総
Single tracks running through fields of rape flowers. Wooden station buildings survive.
Read more →千葉県 · Tourism
Hota Banya
鋸南町 南房総
A canteen run by the fishing co-operative. What came ashore that day is what is served.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →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.
Read more →