What to know
Boso no Mura (房総のむら, "Boso Village") is an open-air museum dedicated to preserving the traditional lifestyle and crafts of the Boso region, an old name for what is now Chiba Prefecture. The museum recreates a typical Edo Period (1603–1868) village, complete with merchant houses, workshops, and farmsteads.
Visitors can try their hand at traditional crafts like papermaking, blacksmithing, and the tea ceremony, or even try on samurai armor. Seasonal activities include crop harvesting and bamboo craft. Four festivals are held each year, one per season.
Surrounding the museum is a public park with dozens of burial mounds (kofun) from the Kofun Period (300–538). Nearby, the Fudoki-no-oka Shiryokan archaeological museum displays artifacts excavated around Chiba Prefecture.
Next to the archaeological museum are reconstructed pit houses from the Jomon Period (13,000–300 BC), two Edo Period residences, and a Meiji Period (1868–1912) school.
Travel between Boso no Mura and Narita Airport requires a transfer at Narita Station.
From Narita Station, take a Chiba Kotsu bus bound for Ryukakujidai-Shako and get off at Ryukakujidai-Ni-Chome bus stop (20 minutes, 430 yen, 2–3 buses/hour). From there, it's a ten-minute walk to Boso no Mura.
Visitor information
Practical details to check before planning this stop.
- Hours
- 9:00 to 16:30
- Closed
- Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a national holiday)
- Admission
- 300 yen (~$1.92)
- English name
- Original name
- Boso no Mura Open Air Museum
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