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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.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Villas of Ichinomiya

一宮町外房

Seaside villas built by Tokyo's wealthy from the Meiji era, joining Western and Japanese wings.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tojo History Museum

松戸市北総

Photographs taken by Tokugawa Akitake, who went to the Paris Exposition - a key body of early Japanese photography.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tobinodai Museum

船橋市千葉

Built over an early Jomon site, preserving its hearth pits in place.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Urayasu City Museum

浦安市千葉

The pre-reclamation fishing town rebuilt at full size outdoors, with its narrow wooden boats.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Choshi Electric Railway

銚子市北総

A 6.4-kilometre line whose wooden stations and cabbage-field track preserve a Showa landscape whole.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Kominato Railway Stations

市原市上総

Taisho-era wooden stations survive along the whole line, listed together as cultural properties.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Chibadera

千葉市千葉

The clan temple of the Chiba family, its great ginkgo forming one image with the halls.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Lake Tega and the Shirakaba Circle

我孫子市北総

The lakeside where Yanagi, Shiga and Mushanokoji all lived - the landscape behind the birth of mingei.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Naritasan Approach

成田市北総

A pilgrimage approach lined with three-storey wooden inns, layers of highway commerce.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Dutch Windmill of Sakura

佐倉市北総

A genuine Dutch windmill shipped in pieces and assembled here, composed with the flower fields around it.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Yatsuda Valley Fields

千葉市千葉

Long narrow paddies following valleys cut into the plateau - terrain dictating the shape of farming.

千葉県 · Art & museums

Tai no Ura

鴨川市外房

The sea where Nichiren was born, worshipped together with the temple that marks the place.