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Things to do in Chiba & Narita 千葉

143 places our team picked in Chiba & Narita, by category.

• Museum 11
• Shrine 6
• Temple 8
• Vista & View 6
• Photo Spot 10
• Camera Store 3
• Park 15
• Beach & Waterfront 10
• Theme Park 3
• Zoo & Aquarium 2
• Pokémon & Character Store 2
• Activities & Experiences 4
• Mall & Department Store 3
• Unique Store 8
• Shopping Street 2
• Restaurant 4
• Ramen & Noodles 2
• Sushi & Seafood 2
• Café & Sweets 2
• Bars & Nightlife 2
• Onsen & Sento 2
• Stay 11
• Local Secret 4
• Transit Hub 7
• Luggage Storage 7
• Tourist Info 7

Top sights

• Naritasan Shinshoji TempleTemple · Narita (Omotesando) — One of Japan's great pilgrimage temples, founded in 940 and visited by about three million people over New Year. Booming goma fire…
• Sakura no Yama ParkVista & View · Narita (Komaino) — Narita's most famous plane-spotting hill, at the north end of Runway A, where landing jets pass low overhead when the wind is from the…
• Museum of Aeronautical SciencesMuseum · Shibayama — Japan's first aviation museum, beside Runway A on the Shibayama side, with real aircraft outside, a Boeing 747 cockpit and simulators…
• Shibayama Nioson (Kannonkyoji Temple)Temple · Shibayama — A temple founded in 781, famous across Kanto for its guardian-king talismans against fire and theft, with a massive zelkova-wood Nio gate,…
• Ryukakuji TempleTemple · Sakae — One of the oldest temples in eastern Japan, whose principal image is a bronze Hakuho-period Yakushi Buddha head (an Important Cultural…
• YamatonoyuOnsen & Sento · Narita (Otake) — A calm, adults-leaning day spa with natural hot-spring baths in a Japanese-modern setting in north-west Narita, open 10:00-22:00 every day…
• Tokyo DisneylandTheme Park · Maihama (Urayasu) — The original Tokyo Disney park in Urayasu, Chiba: Cinderella Castle, the immaculate World Bazaar, and the 2020 New Fantasyland with the…
• Nakayama Hokekyo-jiTemple · Nakayama (Ichikawa) — A head temple of Nichiren Buddhism founded in 1260, with a 31 m vermilion five-storey pagoda, a rare double-gabled Founders Hall and a…
• Mama-san GuhojiTemple · Mama (Ichikawa) — A hilltop Nichiren temple in Ichikawas Mama district reached by a long stone stairway, famous for the 400-year-old Fushihime-zakura…
• Tokyo DisneySeaTheme Park · Maihama (Urayasu) — Widely called the world's most beautiful Disney park: a volcano, a Venetian harbour and Fantasy Springs (opened 2024) with Frozen, Tangled…
• Sogo Reido (Tokoji Temple)Temple · Narita (Sogo) — The memorial temple of Sakura Sogoro, the 17th-century village headman executed for petitioning the shogun on behalf of starving farmers,…
• Boso no MuraMuseum · Sakae — A prefectural open-air museum recreating an Edo-period Boso town and farm villages, with merchant houses, a samurai residence and some 400…