--- title: "Sakura – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Sakura, Japan: city 17 km from Chiba. Nearby: National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura Castle, Moto Sakura Castle. Every way there from the planner…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakura" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakura.md" image: "https://www.mixroutes.com/og.png" --- City · Japan · Chiba # Sakura What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Sakura 6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name. 1. National Museum of Japanese History The National Museum of Japanese History, commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983. 1.5 km · museum in Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Japanese_History) 2. Sakura Castle Sakura Castle was a 17th-century castle, now in ruins, in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. It was designated one of Japan's Top 100 Castles by the Japanese Castle Foundation. 1.6 km · ruins of a 17th-century castle in Sakura (Chinese Prefecture) · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakura_Castle) 3. Moto Sakura Castle Moto Sakura Castle was a Muromachi period "hirayama"-style castle located on the border of the town of Shisui and the city of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins been protected as a National Historic Site since 1998. 2.6 km · castle ruins in Inba District, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Sakura_Castle) 4. Jindai-ji Temple Jindai-ji is a Buddhist temple located in the city of Sakura in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The temple was originally located in Yamagata Prefecture, but when the Hotta clan was granted control of the Sakura Domain, Hotta Masasuke moved the temple in 1746 to serve as the clan's funerary temple, or family temple. 4.6 km · Buddhist temple in Chiba Prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindai-ji_(Chiba%29) 5. Sumi Furusawa Site The Sumi Furusawa site is an archaeological site with the traces of a Japanese Paleolithic period settlement located in what is now the Sumi neighborhood of the town of Shisui, Chiba in the Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 2019. 4.8 km · archaeological site in Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumi_Furasawa_Site) 6. Inba Tega Prefectural Natural Park Inba Tega Prefectural Natural Park is a Prefectural Natural Park in northern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. First designated for protection in 1952, the park's central features are Inba Marsh and Tega Marsh. 4.7 km · natural park of Chiba prefecture, Japan · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inba_Tega_Prefectural_Natural_Park) Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0. Go there ## Getting to Sakura **Airports:** Narita (NRT), 15 km · Tokyo Haneda (HND), 44 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 54 km\ **Stations:** Keisei Shisui Station, 4 km · Keisei-Sakura Station, 1 km · Keisei-Usui Station, 5 km · Sakura Station, 1 km · Sōgosandō Station, 5.9 km\ - Tokyo → Sakura 49 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · ¥670–920 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tokyo-to-sakura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tokyo&to=Sakura) - Omitama → Sakura 61 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · ¥950–1,290 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/omitama-to-sakura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Omitama&to=Sakura) - Makinohara / Shimada → Sakura 211 km · quickest by road, 3h 36m · ¥2,850–3,890 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/makinohara-shimada-to-sakura) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Makinohara+%2F+Shimada&to=Sakura) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Sakura) Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds. Not yet researched ## No local-transport research exists yet for Sakura Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sakura. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more. The nearest places where the work is done 1. [Muuido and the Incheon islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muuido) KR 9 ways of moving, 20 sources 1,247 km 2. [Sakhalin](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakhalin) RU 9 ways of moving, 15 sources 1,277 km 3. [Zamami and the Kerama Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/zamami) JP 12 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,620 km 4. [Taketomi and the Yaeyama islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/taketomi) JP 12 ways of moving, 17 sources 2,000 km 5. [Matsu Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/matsu) TW 9 ways of moving, 34 sources 2,198 km If you know how people move in Sakura – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Csakura&title=Sakura&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fsakura), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Sakura Sakura is 17 km from [Chiba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chiba), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Shisui](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/shisui) town in Inba district, Chiba prefecture, Japan 3.4 km - [Inba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/inba) dissolved municipality in Inba district, Chiba prefecture, Japan 5.8 km [The place page for Sakura](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/sakura) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on Japan](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-JP) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/sakura, for search crawlers and AI assistants. The HTML page is the canonical copy. Mixroutes is made by Lascade LLC, Sharjah Media City, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Index of every page: https://www.mixroutes.com/llms.txt