2 Best Sights in Narita Airport, Tokyo

If you take the train between Tokyo and Narita, you’ll notice that before reaching the capital there are rice paddies and farmland on view. At Narita Dream Farm (aka Yume Bokujo), you can experience that rural side of Greater Tokyo firsthand, with an emphasis on family fun. You can feed and milk cows, as well pet guinea pigs and goats, or have a tractor ride. There are also workshops to make jam, butter, and bread; on a less rural note, you could try some archery, too. It's a very different kind of Tokyo experience that's very well suited to small kids.

One of the Kanto region's oldest temples, Naritasan was founded in the AD 900s to hold a statue of the Buddhist deity Fudo Myoo, which legend has it was carved by Kobo Daishi, the founder of Shingon Buddhism. That statue alone—still viewable in the temple’s vast main hall—marks Naritasan out as special to many Japanese, but added to that are two impressive pagodas and a spacious wooded park to explore. Once at Narita Station, which is less than 10 minutes by train from the airport, the temple is reached via Naritasan Omotesando, an 800-meter-long (½-mile) avenue lined with souvenir stores and restaurants, which is fun to explore in its own right, especially if you are in need of some last-minute souvenirs.