Funabashi

Funabashi (船橋) is a city in Chiba, Japan.

Funabashi Racecourse

Understand

Tourist office

• 1 Funabashi Tourist Association, Funabashi City hall 1-19-7 Minatocho, ☏ +81 47-436-2473, fax: +81 47-436-2466. M-F 09:00-17:00. 

Tourist information sites

• Funabashi Style is the city's official multilingual guide site.

• The local tourist association has a Japanese-only guide site.

Get in

By train

From Tokyo station, Funabashi can be reached by the JR Sobu Line. From Tokyo Narita Airport, take Keisei Line.

See

• 1 Funabashi Sanbanse seaside park (ふなばし三番瀬海浜公園), 40 Shiomicho (from Funabashi Station Take a bus), ☏ +81 47-435-0828. 

Do

Incredibly, the city has two racecourses: Nakayama allows betting on weekends and Funabashi on weekdays.

• 1 Nakayama Horse Race Course (中山競馬場), 1-1-1 Kosakucho (JR Musashino Line take Funabashi-Hoten Station.), ☏ +81 7-334-2222. One of the four major JRA racecources. Famous for Arima Kinen, the highest betting horserace in the world and the Nakayama Grand Jump, Japan's premier steeplechase races. Adults ¥200 (meeting day only).  
• 2 Funabashi Racecourse (船橋競馬場), 1-2-1 Wakamatsu, Funabashi. NAR racecourse run by Chiba Prefecture. Meet on weekdays. \100 (meeting day only). (updated Feb 2024)

Buy

• 1 LaLaport Tokyo-Bay (ららぽーとTOKYO-BAY), 2-1-1 Hamacho (near Minami-Funabashi station; route buses bound for Keisei Funabashi Station, JR Minami-Funabashi Station and JR Tsudanuma Station are available), ☏ +81 47-433-9800. It features 2 department stores, and 440 shops.  
• 2 Tōbu department store Funabashi (東武百貨店船橋店), 7-1-1 Honcho, ☏ +81 47-425-2211. 10:00-19:30. 

Drink

• HUB, 4-4-50 Honcho, ☏ +81 47-460-8682. 17:00-01:00. 

Go next

• Ichikawa
• Urayasu
• Narashino
• Kamagaya
• Yachiyo
• Shiroi
• Sakura
• Inzai
• Yatsukaido

Routes through Funabashi

Tokyo ← Kinshicho ← Ichikawa ←	W  S	→ Tsudanuma → Chiba → Narita Airport
Akihabara ← Ryogoku ← Kinshicho ←	W  S	→ Tsudanuma → Makuharihongo → Chiba
Shim-Matsudo ← Higashi-Matsudo ←	N  S	→ END
Tokyo ← Kasai Rinkaikoen ← Maihama ←	W  E	→ Kaihin-makuhari → Soga
Kashiwa ← Shin-Kamagaya ←	N  S	→ END
Keisei Ueno ← Aoto ← Keisei Yawata ←	W  E	→ Tsudanuma → Sakura → Narita
Nihonbashi ← Monzen-nakacho ← Gyotoku ←	W  E	→ END
Kinshicho ← into ← Shinozaki ← Ichikawa ←	W  W	→ Makuhari → into → Kisarazu