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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.

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.