Chiba
Travel plans
Inland Chiba for the Return Visitor: Realist Art, the Yoro Valley & Otaki Castle Town — 2 Days
The Hoki Museum of photo-realist painting and a city garden, then the Yoro Valley's waterfalls and 'black-water' onsen, a beloved rural railway, and the old castle town of Otaki
Southern Boso for Two: Kamogawa Onsen, Wild Sea-Bream & Katsuura's Dawn Market — 2 Days
Kamogawa's Nichiren birth-temple, a boat among the wild sea bream of Tainoura, a famous oceanarium and a seafront onsen night, then Katsuura's dawn market, an undersea tower, fiery tantanmen and Onjuku's camel-statue sands
Chiba's Eastern Cape: Choshi's Nostalgic Railway, Soy Sauce & Inubosaki Lighthouse — 2 Days
The clattering Choshi Electric Railway, a centuries-old soy-sauce works, a fishing-port seafood lunch, the brick Inubosaki lighthouse, the curve of the earth and the Byobugaura sea cliffs
Chiba by Tokyo Bay: Mt Nokogiri's Hell-Peek, the Bay Ferry & Mother Farm — 2 Days
The Tokyo Bay ferry to Kanaya, Mt Nokogiri's ropeway, the cliff-carved Great Buddha and the 'Hell-Peek' overhang, a fisherman's seafood lunch, then Mother Farm and Cape Futtsu's Fuji view
First-Time Chiba: The Narita Pilgrim Temple & Sawara's 'Little Edo' Canal Town — 2 Days
Naritasan Shinshoji's daily fire rituals and eel-lined pilgrim street, then Sawara's willow-lined 'Little Edo' canal, the surveyor Ino Tadataka's town, and the ancient Katori Jingu