Chiba & Narita · Landmarks

Best Castle & Palace in Chiba & Narita

7 places, each checked by our team.

• Chiba City Folk Museum (Inohana Castle) 千葉市立郷土博物館（亥鼻城）Chiba city — Castle-style museum on the Inohana Castle site in Inohana Park, with a 5th-floor lookout; free admission.
• Kururi Castle 久留里城Kimitsu (Kururi) — Hilltop castle in Kimitsu with a reconstructed two-storey keep and a free castle-ruins museum.
• Motosakura Castle Ruins 本佐倉城跡Shisui / Sakura — Earthen castle of the Chiba clan from the 1480s, with large ramparts and dry moats near Shisui.
• Otaki Castle 大多喜城Otaki — Reconstructed keep of Honda Tadakatsu's castle above Otaki town; the museum inside is closed for renovation.
• Sakura Castle Ruins Park 佐倉城Sakura — Earthwork castle site in Sakura, one of Japan's Top 100 Castles, now a park with moats, cherry trees and the National Museum of Japanese History.
• Sekiyado Castle Museum 千葉県立関宿城博物館Noda (Sekiyado) — Prefectural museum in a reconstructed castle keep at the tip of Chiba, on the Tone and Edo rivers.
• Tateyama Castle 館山城Tateyama (Boso Peninsula) — Hilltop mock castle (1982) in Tateyama's Shiroyama Park on the site of the Satomi clan stronghold, housing a museum on the novel Hakkenden.