Chiba & Narita · Sights

Best Museum in Chiba & Narita

11 places, each checked by our team.

• Boso no Mura 千葉県立房総のむらSakae — A prefectural open-air museum recreating an Edo-period Boso town and farm villages, with merchant houses, a samurai residence and some 400 hands-on…
• Hoki Museum ホキ美術館Toke (Chiba City) — Japan's first museum devoted to realist painting, in a striking cantilevered building beside Showa no Mori park.
• Ichihara Lakeside Museum 市原湖畔美術館Takataki (Ichihara) — Contemporary art museum on the shore of Lake Takataki in rural Ichihara, with a lookout tower and lakeside restaurant.
• Ichikawa Higashiyama Kaii Memorial Hall 市川市東山魁夷記念館Nakayama (Ichikawa) — A European-style museum in the neighbourhood where the great Nihonga painter Kaii Higashiyama lived for over 50 years, showing prints, sketches and…
• Ichikawa Literature Museum 市川市文学ミュージアムMotoyawata (Ichikawa) — A free literary museum in Ichikawas lifelong-learning centre celebrating writers who lived in the city, above all Kafu Nagai, whose final years in…
• Ino Tadataka Museum 伊能忠敬記念館Sawara — Museum in Sawara dedicated to Ino Tadataka, the merchant who produced Japan's first accurate survey-based maps in the early 1800s.
• Museum of Aeronautical Sciences 航空科学博物館Shibayama — Japan's first aviation museum, beside Runway A on the Shibayama side, with real aircraft outside, a Boeing 747 cockpit and simulators inside, and a…
• Narita Tourist Pavilion (Narita Kankokan) 成田観光館Narita (Omotesando) — A free three-floor visitor centre halfway down Omotesando with a full-size Narita Gion Festival float on display, local history exhibits, Wi-Fi,…
• Naritasan Calligraphy Museum 成田山書道美術館Narita (Omotesando) — A serene museum inside Naritasan Park dedicated to Japanese calligraphy from the Edo period to today, one of the few major museums in the country…
• Shibayama Kofun & Haniwa Museum 芝山町立芝山古墳・はにわ博物館Shibayama — A small town museum, renewed in 2021, showing the remarkable haniwa clay figures of men in tall hats and long beards excavated from Shibayama's…
• Urayasu City Folk Museum 浦安市郷土博物館Nekozane (Urayasu) — A free museum about Urayasu before Disney: a fishing town of clams and nori, recreated outdoors as a walk-in 1952 streetscape with a fishermans…