“Chiba” of mild climate, blessed with rich nature.
Chiba Prefecture, surrounded on three sides by the sea, has an oceanic mild climate, warm in winter and cool in summer. Especially the Minamiboso coast has rarely frost even in winter due to the warm current (Black Current) running in the offing. It, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, is blessed with wide, green-full, rich nature and a superior location adjacent to the metropolitan Tokyo, and thanks to the improved expressways, you can have easy access to various places within the prefecture.
This area consists mainly of Kujukurihama coast extending 66 km, and you can enjoy marine sports utilizing the coastline and beaches and seashore recreation including tourist fisheries throughout the year.
Museum of Aeronautical Sciences
These are the first facilities in Japan with a variety of documents about aeronautics.
Mobara Park
Mobara Park, which is located about 2 km west of JR Mobara Station, was opened in early Showa.
Hankoji Temple
Hanko Danrin (school annexed to Hankoji Temple), which was opened in 1580 and prospered primarily in the Edo Period, is the oldest, largest, and best Nichiren-sect school for training monks - at its peak six to eight hundred monks are said to have studied at this school.
Shibayama Niouson
Shibayama Niouson Kannonkyo Temple, founded in 781 at the end of the Nara Period, is one of the greatest time-honored temples with a history of over 1200 years.
Shibayama Kohun-Haniwa-Museum
In Shibayama town, which was once regarded as the center base of Musa, over 500 ancient burial mounds (Kohun) were created.
Nihon Aerobics Center
A major complex resort equipped with a lodging facility, restaurant, various types of sports facilities, pool, conference room, and the like, in a vast site with a total area of 3.3 million m2, in Boso.
Sunrise Kujukuri
Sunrise Kujukuri stands depicting a grand curve on Kujukuri Coast, facing the Pacific Ocean.
Kasamori-Kannon
Kasamori-Kannon built in 784 was enshrined in the Kannon-do temple, which was constructed in a unique style in Japan, called “Shihokake-zukuri,” and opened with the Imperial prayer in 1028.
Kazusa no kuni Ichinomiya Tamasaki Shrine
Located at the southern end of Kujyu-kuru beach in eastern Japan (where the sun rises), the shrine has a history of more than 1,200 years
