千葉県 · Kanto Region
Chiba Hidden Gems
A warm peninsula of surf beaches, coastal temples and produce farms wrapped around Tokyo Bay — and the site of Japan's main international airport.
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Climate & Best Season
The mildest winters in Kanto thanks to the Kuroshio current; humid summers cooled by sea breezes. Good year-round.
Famous For (Food)
- Peanuts
- Namerō (minced fish)
- Futomaki sushi
- Soy sauce (Noda & Choshi)
Signature Sights
- Naritasan Shinshoji
- Nokogiriyama cliff Buddha
- Kujukuri beaches
- Choshi coast
Chiba
Chiba· Ichihara
Ichihara Lakeside Museum
A 1990s municipal sculpture museum on the shore of a reservoir in inland Chiba was, by the early 2010s, the kind of plac…
Ichihara Lakeside MuseumArt MixTakataki lake+2
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Chiba· Sakura
National Museum of Japanese History
This is the national museum for the history of Japan, and it is not in Tokyo — it is on the grounds of the old Sakura ca…
Rekihakunational museumSakura+2
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Chiba· Chiba City
Hoki Museum
Hoki is the first museum in Japan devoted entirely to realist painting — work so precisely rendered that at a distance i…
Hoki Museumrealist paintingChiba+2