The Museum of Aeronautical Sciences is an aviation museum located outside the southern end of Narita Airport’s main runway. The museum attracts both plane enthusiast and non-enthusiasts alike with displays of real aircrafts, simulators, and other hands-on activities. Inside the museum there are full scale replicas of historic planes and components of modern planes. This includes things like a landing gear and engine of a Boeing 747. You can also try piloting a plane at one of the life sized simulators in the museum. There is a place where you can get in replica cockpits of a Mitsubishi Zero fighter or other planes. On the third floor of the museum is an outdoor observation deck, where you can see Narita Airport’s runway. The fourth floor has a restaurant and the fifth floor is an observatory modeled to look like a flight control tower. In the outside yard are over a dozen of aircrafts, which are mostly smaller propeller and helicopters.
