Top Things to do in Komae
Top 10 Things to do in Komae, Japan
Discover the best top things to do in Komae, Japan including Nihon Minkaen Folk House Museum, Tokyo Metropolitan Jindai Botanical Park, Ghibli Museum, Yomiuri Land, Izumi Shrine, Inokashira Onshi Park, Fujiko F Fujio Museum, Jindai-ji Temple, Senryuji Temple, Gotokuji Temple.
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1. Nihon Minkaen Folk House Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 148 reviews
Reviewed By ktari3 - Tokyo
A great to place to spend an afternoon strolling amongst the old houses.
They're set in lovely peaceful grounds and midweek its fairly quiet so a good time to go.
There's a lot of English guidance so you'll be well informed and it's only 30 mins from Shinjuku St on the Odakyu Line (express train).
2. Tokyo Metropolitan Jindai Botanical Park
Overall Ratings
4 based on 165 reviews
Reviewed By Banda-in-Japan - Tokyo, Japan
This botanical garden is a wonderful green space in suburban Tokyo with ponds, paths, open spaces and woodlands. It also has various types of flowers in their season. The greenhouses are currently being rebuilt, but you can enjoy wandering through the rest of the garden, with a stop for ice cream or a drink when you feel like it. Easiest to access by car, but there is also good bus service from Mitaka and Chofu stations.
3. Ghibli Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 1 reviews
The brainchild of award-winning Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki, this museum includes a theater showing film excerpts, a whimsical children's play zone, a rooftop garden, and exhibits related to his movies, including Spirited Away.
Reviewed By stormborne - Sydney
This gorgeous museum is the embodiment oid Ghibli- no phones/ pictures, highly sensory, very earthly (wooden tones, nature details, roof top garden) and cosy throughout in its design.
It's a reasonably compact place with four main Exhibitions and the theatre. You're given a snippet of a film reel to show on your way in to watch the short film - great peice of memorabilia. We watched one about wrestling rats. No English subtitles but not really needed.
My favorite room was the three artist rooms that were laden with sketches from all movies and you could just imagine Hayao Miyazaki sitting there.
The rooftop Robot from Laputa was spectacular amongst the greenery an flowers.
My only complaint is that they need an adult cat bus so that we can play too.
Highly recommend for any Ghibli fan
As a side note: yes it gets crazily busy and yes buying the tickets is hard (in fact, we missed tickets for March and April and our only option was to visit as part of a full day tour). But its ski heartening to see so many people appreciating the artwork and philosophy of Studio Ghibli films. Go, relax and enjoy. Who knows if you'll get the chance again.
4. Yomiuri Land
Overall Ratings
4 based on 218 reviews
Reviewed By redeyeblues - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Here for the summer firefly event held at "Seichi Park" on Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays in June - it is a 7-minute walk from the entrance of Yomiuri Land following the signs. Quite a few more fireflies than "Yuyake Koyake Fureai no Sato" near Takao but also a lot more people (including noisy children)! Don't expect to see fireflies everywhere though - some spotting effort required.
You have to get a numbered ticket for 300 yen per person (kids are free) then wait until your turn - they do tell you approximately how long the wait is though. We arrived just before 8 and had to wait for about an hour and a half. There are a few tents with Japanese quizzes/things to do, food trucks, and benches. There's also a Shakey's (pizza buffet at 1650 yen/person) by the entrance that opens until 9 pm (last order at 8:30 pm).
You can get tickets starting at 6 pm but entry is not until 7:30 pm. It took us about 30 minutes to slowly walk through the lanterns and fireflies area. The place was closing down when we left at 10 pm.
It's a 25-minute walk from Odaykyu Line's "Yomiuri Land-Mae Station" - exit the station, walk left until you see Family Mart then make a right and walk straight the rest of the way.
We also came here for the winter illumination before but went via Keio Line's "Yomiuri-Land Station" followed by a short cable car ride. The illuminations were nice and the attractions were also open at night then. It's basically a budget amusement park - fun in a tacky way. The highlight was a water slide where you get to go down in a giant tube in full winter wear! There was also a choreographed dance routine behind the water Fountain show which was very cool.
5. Izumi Shrine
Overall Ratings
4 based on 14 reviews
Reviewed By chikayochan - Tokyo, Japan
Ten minutes walk from Komae station. This Shrine torii, which is a shrin gate is the oldest stone gate in this city. This Torii was built in 1651 Edo period This Shrine is worth to visit .
6. Inokashira Onshi Park
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 507 reviews
Reviewed By C D - North Carolina
I visited in early March hoping to see the Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) in full bloom. I was a few weeks early, but the park still did not disappoint. Large trees, benches and food stands are every. Clean restrooms and the Zoo is also part of the park.
This is a very much used park on the weekends and holidays. You will see families everywhere, having picnics, riding paddle boats (some boats looking like swans) playing and just having fun. It is a popular jogging park and and connects Inokashira to Kichijoji if you want to walk between the two.
7. Fujiko F Fujio Museum
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 512 reviews
Reviewed By distyDistydisty - Jakarta, Indonesia
I always watched Doraemon series when I was a kid. So being here is one of my bucketlist. And now its checked.
First, bear in mind that ticket sold in Lawson store, in a vending machine, with Japanese language. Yeah, that the first barrier, the Japanese language machine with Japanese speaks shop keeper. So, try to go to Lawson store in tourists spot hopefully you’ll find the english speaks shopkeeper. Mine, I did browsed how to buy the ticket and print it out, later I just gave the step-by-step to buy the ticket to the shopkeeper. You’ll get the voucher ticket to be replaced in the museum.
Entrance fee is ¥1.000 with 4 timing option to explore the museum. 10am, 12pm, 2pm and 4pm. The maksimum time fo visiting the museum is 1.5hr. I think 1.5hr is enough to explore the museum.
So, I took train to Noborito St, its covered by JR Pass. From there, I took shuttle bus to the museum, it costs ¥210 one way. And stopped exactly in front of the museum.
Before entering the museum, the museum guard will explain the dont and dos inside the museum. Taking pictures is prohibited inside the exhibition area. Coz the exhibition area is Fujiko F Fujio the real masterpiece, so you will the the handwriting comic of Doraemon.
You’ll have something like handytalkie for listening the explanation inside the exhibition area. Each showcase has a number which you just press the number to listen. English friendly handytalkie.
Another barrier, the museum is semi English friendly, especially in theather show. You’ll watch 20min movie with only Japanese language with no English subtittle. Fiuhhhh..
Beside the exhibition area, theres some place you can take picture like outside area, her you can play like Nobita and Friends in the field where the pipe stack is there.
Welll, im happpy here.
8. Jindai-ji Temple
Overall Ratings
4 based on 293 reviews
Reviewed By Gemini6_tadvisor - Lyon, France
This temple is in Tokyo, but outside of the 23 wards of Central Tokyo. From Shinjuku, Chuo (or Sobu) line or Keio line will take you to the station nearby, and in either case you have to take a bus from the station to the temple. We took the way, which seemed quickest, and took Keio line to Chofu station (15 minutes) and a bus (15
minutes). It is possible via Tsutsujigaoka station of Keio line, but Chofu station is much bigger, meaning that all the rapid and semi-rapid trains stop there, whereas only local trains stop at Tsutsujigaoka station.
From the bus stop, a short path way leads to the temple, on both sides of which there are souvenir shops as well as estaurants, where you can have Soba (noodles).known for Jindaiji soba.
The temple is rather small and quiet, and it seems to us that most of the visitors are local people without coaches of tourists, which for us is a positive thing. As soon as we got off the bus, we felt as if we were in a small country side town of Japan, although the temple is in Tokyo. In the temple we found Daruma omikuji (oracle) for 300 yen/pce. You get a small Daruma for 300 yen. The Darumas are in several different colors for different fortunes like money, health, etc), and when you buy it you don't see the color of the Daruma you are buying.
As for the Soba (noodles), we regret a little having dropped in one of the first restaurants, but, as there are plenty of them, we should have walked around first especially in the path way perpendicular to the entry of the temple, right and left, before choosing one.
As a whole, we had a nice moment in the temple, and as we did not see everything and in details, we will certainly go back.
9. Senryuji Temple
Overall Ratings
3.5 based on 13 reviews
Reviewed By BEN123西宮 - 西宮
小田急「狛江駅」の駅前の緑の森の中に泉龍寺があります。泉龍寺は曹洞宗(禅宗)の寺院です。寺伝によると奈良東大寺の開山として名高い良弁僧正が765年にこの地で雨乞いをして寺を創建したのがはじまりと言われている歴史ある寺院です。山門を入るとすてきな鐘楼門があります。本堂、開山堂等の伽藍があります。大きな銀杏の木が美しく紅葉していました。駅前ですが、静かで、緑の多い禅寺です。寺社仏閣に興味がある方にお勧めのスポットです。
10. Gotokuji Temple
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 247 reviews
Reviewed By Maria O
I went just a few days ago. There were lots of people just taking pictures and enjoying the whole scenario. The autumn colours were great, very photogenic. A very well spent afternoon. And you can also buy the little cats and leave it next to the others for good luck.
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