Urayasu City Folk Museum — Attraction in Urayasu

Free entry and staffed by volunteers. It’s an interesting story of how the area was developed after WW2 but it is also sad how the village inhabitants local way of life and culture that they’d been living for centuries was swept away from them in the name of ‘progress’. The environmental impact on Tokyo bay was considerable. The staff will give out some English language leaflets to explain the old buildings outside but if you can’t read Japanese you will need to use google lens translation or a similar app for the displays inside. There are some old style games and activities for the children. We enjoyed about an hour and a half there, it’s worth visiting if you’re...

It is a free museum to visit. They have English guide pamphlet, too, to help you understand the exhibition. There are many volunteers (i guess) roaming around the area of traditional houses of fishermen's town. You may enter all the buildings except for the staff office. You may open all the drawers inside the buildings, too. If you can speak Japanese very well, the volunteers usually will approach you and explain the exhibition you are approaching. Very helpful and informative. I really like this museum. Especially since you can get here by taking the osanpo bus or bus for sightseeing, for a cheap price. Recommend to go on weekdays because of the small...

Really great museum on the old fishing village of the Urayasu. It was easy to navigate with the use of Google lens. Supposedly there is an app you can download which offers English or other languages options to help navigate the museum but I was not able to download it to use. The staff was really friendly towards us and over all it was a good experience. It was raining for us on this day and my wife was able to use an old fashion paper looking umbrella that was replicated from the 1700-1800s. Lastly the...