Chiba & Narita · Sights

Best Shrine in Chiba & Narita

6 places, each checked by our team.

• Katori Jingu 香取神宮Katori (Sawara) — One of eastern Japan's oldest and most important shrines, head of about 400 Katori shrines, with a black-lacquered main hall in a cedar forest.
• Katsushika Hachimangu 葛飾八幡宮Motoyawata (Ichikawa) — The guardian shrine of the old Shimosa province in Motoyawata, with a vast hollow ginkgo, the Senbon-icho, that is a National Natural Monument and…
• Makata Shrine (Daikata) 麻賀多神社(台方)Narita (Daikata) — The head shrine of the 18 Makata shrines of Inba, set in deep woods west of Narita and home to a giant cedar said to be over 1,300 years old, often…
• Seiryu Shrine (Urayasu) 清瀧神社Urayasu Moto-machi — The guardian shrine of old Urayasus fishing town, set in the lanes of Moto-machi near the Sakaigawa river, with a carved main hall and a grand…
• Tekona Reido 手児奈霊神堂Mama (Ichikawa) — A small, much-loved shrine to Tekona, the tragic beauty of Mama from Japans oldest poetry anthology, now prayed to for safe childbirth and good…
• Toho Shrine 東峰神社Narita Airport (Toho) — A tiny village shrine that survives in a pocket of woods inside Narita Airport's fences, beside the approach to Runway B, where jets pass close by.…