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Urayasu City Folk Museum (浦安市郷土博物館)

Flow of the course

About 90 min here

About 10 min to the next stop

Next stop: Stand inside Edo- and Meiji-era houses and sense the proportions of daily life

About this spot

This is a museum where you can experience life in Urayasu back when it was still a fishing town through an outdoor recreation of the townscape. Step into the alleys lined with wooden houses and the narrow frontages and earthen-floor construction convey how densely people lived at the time. Beka boats, used for cultivating nori seaweed and gathering shellfish, are on display, and children are especially struck by the chances to actually ride in one. The indoor exhibition rooms also show how the town changed through land reclamation, which makes the contrast with today's Urayasu surprising. Admission is free, so it is welcome that you can drop in casually and stay a long while.

Tips

Closed on Mondays (the next weekday if Monday is a public holiday). The exhibits are mainly outdoors, so bring a hat and drinks. Hands-on programs vary by day, so checking the official information beforehand keeps things as you expect. There are spots in the recreated alleys where a stroller is hard to push through.