Sakura samurai houses and Hiyodorizaka

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You can visit three samurai houses from the late Edo period; one is a prefectural cultural property.

Three residences of samurai of the Sakura clan (Kyū Kawahara-ke, Kyū Tajima-ke and Kyū Takei-ke) still stand in a row as they did when their occupants served at the castle. You can also reach them by Hiyodorizaka, a stone stairway between two walls of bamboo that the samurai actually used to go to the castle, and today it is the most photographed stretch of the city.

The three houses, all from the late Edo period, are open as a museum run by the municipality of Sakura. The Kyū Kawahara-ke, the oldest surviving one in the city, is a Chiba Prefecture cultural property; the Kyū Tajima-ke is a municipal cultural property.

ℹ️ Open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), closed on Mondays (or the following day if Monday is a public holiday) and from 28/12 to 4/1. Admission to a single house 250 yen for adults; combined ticket for the three houses 600 yen (source: city.sakura.lg.jp).

🚉 Keisei-Sakura · 16 min walk

Sources: city.sakura.lg.jp

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