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City in Kantō, Japan
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Ichikawa (市川) is a city in Chiba Prefecuture.
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東山魁夷記念館
Small museum for the famous nihonga (traditional Japanese painting) artist.
市川市動植物園
Ichikawa's best-known attraction is this modest zoo with listless animals in cramped concrete cages. It's frankly rather depressing and best avoided.
ヤマザキプラザ市川
Yamazaki Baking is the largest baking company in not just Japan but the entire world, and Yamazaki Plaza is their original headquarters, hosting no less than three restaurants. The ground floor has a casual bakery-cafe where you can watch pastries being made, while the second has a casual Western-style restaurant (hamburg steaks etc) and the downright fancy French restaurant Lumiere. And if you're still hungry, there's a Yamazaki Fresh supermarket in the basement.
ラジェンテ
Excellent Italian food, the chef trained in Italy and everything including pasta, bread and biscotti is handmade. Both lunch (3/4 courses) and dinner (8-10, a la carte also available) are incredible value. The restaurant is small, so book ahead, and it's a one-man show, so expect to spend a few hours if you go with the full dinner course.
Opened 2024, this slightly upmarket business hotel is as good as it gets in Ichikawa.
Ichikawa can be accessed from Tokyo by JR Ichikawa station (JR市川駅), 19 min away on the Chuo-Sobu and Sobu Rapid lines, and JR Motoyawata station (JR本八幡駅), on the Chuo-Sobu and Toei Shinjuku subway line.
Read in the guideThere are plenty of train lines crossing Ichikawa in an east-west direction, but for north-south travel public transport is limited to poky buses that crawl along the narrow, surprisingly congested streets.
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