Park / Green Space Spots in Chiba Area

  • Funabashi Andersen Park
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    4.0
    311 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Funabashishi Kanehorichou 525
    Funabashi Andersen Park located in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture is a lush green leisure park, and boasts strongly rooted popularity with families. The park consists of a total of five sections: a fairytale zone with a theme of the fairytales written by H.C.Andersen who was a children’s story writer from Denmark where Funabashi City has a sister city; a flower castle zone; a Wanpaku Land zone which has one of the major obstacle courses in Japan; a kids’ museum zone where creative activities can be enjoyed at eight ateliers and a nature experience zone utilizing existing forest and wetlands, so you can enjoy the whole day there.

    I took my 3 kids here today. From our place it is quite far. We took a train and bus. Since it is our first time to go to this place, I don’t know much about the place. The kids were having fun...

  • Narita City Sakura No Yama Park
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    4.5
    311 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Naritashi Komaino 1338-1
    In this park are transplanted all of the cherry trees that were about to be lost during the construction of Narita International Airport. Many people visit this park, located on an elevated knoll, where airplane takeoffs and landings can be watched up close while viewing the beautiful cherry blossoms.

    A great spot to come and see the planes take off and land. Beautiful to visit during Sakura season and autumn but really good all year round for the planes!

  • Chiba Prefecture Makuhari Seaside Park
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    3.5
    135 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Chibashi Mihama-ku Hibino 2-116
    Beautiful Chiba Prefecture Makuhari Seaside Park overflows with greenery and water. It’s split into seven blocks, A-G. B block has a wide open grassy lawn, and C block has a traditional Japanese garden, Mihamaen, with the teahouse Shoraitei. F block holds the Chiba Marine Stadium, which hosts not only baseball games but a variety of other events as well.

    近隣にZOZOマリンスタジアムや幕張メッセもあり、イベントが定期的に開催されているにぎやかな場所です。ただ、なにもない時はとても静かで、近所の住人も利用しているようです。ぼーっとしたい時、イベントで騒ぎたい時いずれにしてもオススメです。 ZOZO Marine Stadium and Makuhari Messe has near here also has many events...

  • Sakura Castle Ruins Park
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    4.0
    125 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Sakurashi Jounaichou
    Said to be the remnants of castle for the shogun’s council members, like Hotta household, the Sakura Castle Ruins form the center of this ruins-based park. Here you’ll find various remnants of Sakura Castle, like the tower and dry moat. There’s also the Sakura Castle Park Center, which displays important historical materials, artifacts, old pictures, and models of Sakura Castle, and the Sankeitei, a tea house modeled after the Koho-an tea house in Kyoto’s Daitoku-ji Temple. The park is also famous for its plants, with cherry trees, peonies, plum trees, irises and many other flowering trees.

    If you like Samurai history then well worth a visit, it gives a sense of the size of the site of the defence system and how it worked

  • Shimizu Park Camp Site
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    4.0
    126 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Nodashi Shimizu 906
    This forest campground utilizes the woods located on the northwest side of Shimizu Park, and is a place where you can enjoy outdoor leisure activities on the spacious grounds. It also has an automobile campground, bungalows and day camping area, so you can go camping in a variety of forms. In addition, there is also a fishing spot with over 2,000 rainbow trout.

    We really enjoyed our trip to Shimizu Park. Its a whole day affair. The obstacle courses are fun and challenging. Make sure you: bring a change of clothes including shoes, wear sneakers...

  • Kashiwa-no-Ha Park
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    4.0
    99 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Kashiwashi Kashiwanoha 4-1
    Kashiwa-no-Ha Park is situated on a 45-hectare site and contains open spaces with natural landscaping, a barbecue area, and large-scale playground equipment, along with sports facilities, such as a general running track, tennis courts, a gymnasium, and baseball field. The park also contains a center for cultural facilities, including a library area and art galleries and a Japanese-style garden. There is also conservatory that displays tropical plants and foliage plants and a rose garden. Local residents of all ages visit this park, which is used for sports lessons, training sessions, and flea markets.

    This park offers a calm and serene atmosphere if you would like to go for a relaxing walk. It is especially beautiful during the cherry blossom season.

  • Showa no Mori
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    4.0
    100 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Chibashi Midori-ku Tokechou 22
    This municipal park located in Tokecho, Chiba Prefecture is 2.3 kilometers long and 0.8 kilometers wide and covers a 105.8 hectare area (equivalent to 23 Tokyo Domes). It is the largest within Chiba City and Chiba Prefecture. This family friendly park not only has walking and cycling courses, but other outdoor activity facilities for camping, barbecue, and a Forest Village, as well as an athletic course, and an observatory tower. With over 200 cherry trees, an iris garden, an azalea garden, and flower fields for Chiba City’s symbolic four flowers (the rape blossom, sunflower, cosmos, and daffodil) within the grounds, making this park a haven for flower lovers.

    凧あげをしたり、シャボン玉を吹いたり、フリスビーをしたりしました。すべり台やアスレチック遊具もあります。 また売店も駐車場もあります。 祭日は結構混みあっていますが、広いので余裕が有ります。

  • Akebonoyama Nogyo Koen (Agricultural Park)
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    4.0
    58 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Kashiwashi Fuse 2005-2
    This green park was opened in 1995, the 40th anniversary of Kashiwa City’s official organization into a municipality. Famous for its flowers, the garden has a plum grove, a bamboo thicket, lotus ponds, and Dutch windmills along with tulips, dandelions and cosmoses. In the flower field—with beautiful flowers blooming in each season. The restaurant serves up local ingredients, while the retail shop has a fully-equipped kids’ room, making it quite popular for families. Various events related to forestry, cuisine and diet are held throughout the year.

    秋桜が見頃の頃訪れてみました。平日でも大勢のお客様がいらしていましたね。風車と青空のコントラストが見事でした。フォトスポットとして散策路に絵の額縁や扉、仮設の展望台などが設営されていました。

  • Taibusamisaki Nature Park
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    4.0
    54 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Minamibousoushi Tomiurachoutadara 1212-29
    This nature park on the Taibusa Cape is part of Minamiboso Quasi-National Park. Its facilities include a visitor center, an exercise field, a lookout, walking paths, and a campground, as well as Hotel & Resorts Minamiboso and the Taibusa Cape Nature Center. The site was once an army fortress and an important point of defense, and traces of that history remain today.

    小高い丘から東京湾を眺めることのできる、気持ちの良い場所です。展望台や展望台が設置されており、家族連れで訪れている人がたくさんいました。ただ、塩の関係で遊泳はできません。

  • Sakura Furusato Square
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    Chiba Pref. Sakurashi Usuida 2714
    A verdant square near Inbanuma, it has a huge eye-catching Dutch windmill called De Liefde that was built as a symbol of the friendship between Japan and the Netherlands. You can find a Dutch garden to enjoy flowers from the Netherlands all year and a share garden of 24 loaned flower beds. Tulips, cherry blossoms, sunflowers, cosmos and other flower varieties bloom in all their glory from season to season. Many visitors come for the various events, such as the Tulip Festa in April and Cosmos Festa in October, held throughout the year.
  • Sakura Kusabue Hill
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    4.0
    38 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Sakurashi Ino 820
    Sakura Kusabue Hill is a park that contains a miniature railroad 1.1 km long, athletic facilities, a petting zoo, and a rose garden. It also contains a campground for tour groups, some log cabins, and an accommodation facility with a capacity of up to 200 persons. There is a market where visitors can buy produce from local farmers and a farm-to-table restaurant. Visitors can try out a number of activities, including farm work and making pottery. This is the best place not only for families but also for groups with the purpose of experiential learning and training.

    バラ 満開の時に行った バリアフリーが無くて 不都合だったけど キャンプ場借りて BBQ 皆さんと 楽しい時間を過ごした 経験あり キャンプ場借りる人は 駐車場は 優先されて 沢山 歩かなくても良い バラは 綺麗だった

  • Shimizu Park
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    Chiba Pref. Nodashi Shimizu 906
    Shimizu Park is a historic park which was founded in 1894 by Motegi Hakuei, the fifth-generation owner of the Kashiwa-ya soy sauce business. It is famous as one of the best places in the Kanto region for viewing flowers, with many different flowers in bloom at different times of year; in all, there are more than 500 varieties of flowers, including cherry blossom, plum blossom, peonies, wisteria, azaleas, etc. The Park also has the world’s first fountain maze, an adventure playground, holiday bungalows for rent, a campsite with parking for cars, a barbecue area, etc. Visitors can enjoy a wide range of outdoor activities while enjoying the Park’s natural beauty.
  • Inage Seaside park
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    Chiba Chiba-shi Mihama-ku Takahama 7-2-1
    Located in Kaihin New Town along the coastline of Chiba City, this comprehensive park covers an area of 83 hectares (about 3 km in length and 83 ha in area) facing Tokyo Bay. Inage Seaside Park opened in 1976 as Japan's first artificial seaside beach, and offers a full range of sports facilities as well as marine sports, making it enjoyable throughout the four seasons.
  • Hanashima Park
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    4.5
    8 Reviews
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    Chiba Pref. Chibashi Hanamigawa-ku Hanashimachou 308
    This park on the Hanami River makes use of the natural environment and is divided into three zones: Water, Greenery, and The Community. Features that help visitors get in touch with nature include two ponds for observing aquatic plants and wild birds, rows of cherry trees, a plaza with flower gardens, and woodland walking paths. There's also an open area with a playscape and a jogging and walking course, as well as sports facilities like a gymnasium and a baseball field.

    千葉市花見川区にある自然豊かな公園。花見川沿いにあり、比較的面積の広い公園です。公園内には、体育館やテニスコート、弓道の施設 グラウンドがあり少年野球やサッカーが盛んに行われている。広い芝地があり、階段を利用すると滝や川、池を再現した自然公園があります。(2023.2月現在は、公園内の一部の施設が工事中です) 自然公園内を突っ切ると、花見川の遊歩道まで行ける。公園内は、トイレ・飲料水の自販機・ベン...

  • Chiba Park
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    Chiba Pref. Chibashi Chuou-ku Benten 3-1
    Chiba Park is located near Chiba Koen Station. It contains a baseball field that is equipped for night games, a gymnasium, a 50-meter pool accredited by the Japan Swimming Federation, a children's pool, an outdoor pool, and other sports facilities. Visitors enjoy the pond in a rented boat, and children can enjoy the well-equipped playground. The park adjoins the Chiba Bicycle Racetrack, as well, so it can be used in a number of ways. In the spring, it is a well-known spot for viewing cherry blossoms.
  • Okinoshima Park
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    Chiba Pref. Tateyamashi Fujimi near
    This semi-island located south of Tateyama bay is part of the natural area designated as Minami Boso Quasi-National Park. An uninhabited area of rock and sand beaches, it’s about one kilometer around, and hosts a unique ecosystem of seaside flora and fauna. You can observe all kinds of coastal plant life, like copses of Japanese cinnamon and giant bay trees, as well as cobra lily Urashima, spider lilies and canavalia rosea. The park’s coral reef is at the northernmost limit for such features, and is a popular snorkeling spot.
  • Funabashi Sanbanze Beach Park
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    Chiba Pref. Funabashishi Shiomichou 40
    This Beach Park lies adjacent to the mudflat, Sanbanze, which is one of the few landing areas for migratory birds in Japan. Besides being popular for birding, one can enjoy clamming between the months of April and mid-June, which attracts many visitors. The park has tennis courts, a baseball field and other sports facilities, along with various other conveniences such as barbecue spots, restaurants, and shops providing year-round fun. Selected as one of the Top 100 Vistas of Mt. Fuji, weather permitting, the park is known as providing the Diamond Fuji view during two periods of the year, February and October.
  • Kujukutani Park
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    Chiba Pref. Kimitsushi Kanouzan Dong Tianyu 119-1
    This park is in Kimitsu City on Prefectural Route 93 has a view that takes in the mountainous vista of Kujukutani Valley, including Mt. Takago and the Kazusa Hills. Besides being a great spot to watch the sun rise and set, the mist-laced morning scenery is so beautiful that it has been selected as one of the top 100 views in Chiba Prefecture.
  • Forest and Park for the 21st Century
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    Chiba Pref. Matsudoshi Sendabori 269
    This park on an extensive site of over 500,000 square meters has a rich natural environment that includes Sendabori Pond and the Jomon Forest. Visitors can enjoy walks, get up close to nature, join in craft workshops, and more. There are facilities like a barbecue area, a zone for camping practice, and a sidewalk cafe. The Matsudo Museum is on the grounds, too.
  • Konbukuro Pond Natural Museum Park
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    4.0
    10 Reviews
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    Chiba Kashiwa-shi Naka Toyofuta 399-1
    This nature park sprawls just south of the Kashiwa Interchange on the Joban Expressway. Consisting of 18.5 hectares of forest, the park cultivates a rich ecosystem centering on two springs which supply Lake Teganuma - Konbukuro Pond and Benten Pond. The park's temperature is lower than the surrounding area, and visitors can see cold temperature zone plants as well as insects endemic to marsh forest. In addition, visitors can spot animals such as Japanese rice fish and Japanese hares which are rarely seen in the metropolitan area. The park holds events such as violet and golden orchid flower watching workshops, and is a popular destination for locals to rest and relax.

    柏の葉キャンパス駅からららぽーとを過ぎて15分程歩く。入り口は綺麗に整備されているが雑草も勢い良い。周りは住宅が建ち開発の波が近づくがいつまでも残って欲しい森です。

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The Boso Peninsula forms the main body of Chiba prefecture, and this is where you’ll find its endless warm water beaches and jagged mountains. Further inland, Narita - most famous as the home of Narita Airport - is a secret haven of tradition and history in the form of centuries-old Shinshoji Temple and quaint wooden Edo buildings. Chiba prefecture is also home to both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.

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