Somewhere in the Chiba countryside, about 25 minutes from the Narita runway most Singapore flights land on, there is a bronze statue of Himmel the Hero standing under strings of festival lights. It is 170cm tall — the same height as the character — and for the next eight weeks you can camp beside it.

The Frieren glamping collaboration between TV anime Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End and Chiba’s 農園リゾート THE FARM has been running since 17 July, and it closes on 16 October 2026. It is called 『思い出を紡ぐ、星と焚き火の旅路』 — roughly, “a journey of stars and campfires, weaving memories” — and it is easily the most thoroughly built anime collab stay Japan has put up this year.

What the Frieren glamping collab actually is

THE FARM is a 100,000-square-metre working farm resort in Katori City, Chiba — bigger than two Tokyo Domes, and one of the Kanto region’s largest glamping sites. For this collab, all 32 glamping tents have been converted into Frieren rooms, and the entire glamping zone has been redressed as a frontier village from the series.

One thing to get straight before you plan anything: during the collab period, the glamping area is open to overnight guests only. There is no day-trip ticket, no walk-in photo pass. If you want to see the Himmel statue, you book a night.

The props you’re allowed to pick up

Check-in happens in a lounge that has been turned into a hands-on museum, and “hands-on” is meant literally — these are display pieces you are invited to handle. Stark’s battle axe is there and is reportedly properly heavy. So are Frieren’s and Fern’s staffs, the Holy Staff insignia Frieren wears, and the Dark Dragon horn Himmel held onto for fifty years. Staff will take your photo with any of it for free.

There is also a mimic. It sits in a stone dungeon room lit by torches, with a sign reading 「暗いよ！！怖いよ！！」— “It’s dark!! It’s scary!!” — and yes, you are supposed to stick your head in its mouth for the photo.

Himmel’s statue, and the ring

Two monuments anchor the site. At the entrance is a life-size recreation of the moment Himmel slips a ring onto Frieren’s finger, planted in a bed of blue flowers. At the fireplace plaza in the middle of the village stands Himmel himself — built in FRP at the character’s canonical 170cm, mounted on a 1.5m plinth so you look up at him, and finished with an aged copper patina to sell the fifty years that pass in the story. At night it is lit from below and ringed with bunting.

Speaking to GAME Watch (Japanese), Nippon Television Art president Hideki Suzue said the idea came from a visit to THE FARM roughly two years ago — a campfire under open sky reminded him of the starlit festival in Frieren. Art director Kohchi Takao, who handled the physical build, told the same outlet he refused to simply place objects around the grounds and wanted every prop to sit in real context. Nippon Television took a capital stake in THE FARM in March 2024, which is how the project got off the ground.

Nights: the village festival, and the pudding

From 18:00 to 20:00 every evening the plaza runs a village festival — free roasted marshmallows and sausages, THE FARM’s own craft beer served in barrel-shaped mugs, and stalls with local makers and fortune tellers. A telescope goes out afterwards for stargazing.

Dinner is THE FARM’s BBQ — a one-pound beef steak per two adults plus vegetables pulled from the farm. Dessert is the bit fans will care about: Mercoura-style pudding, Frieren’s favourite, which you assemble yourself. Milk pudding onto the plate, berry sauce over it, blueberries and raspberries on top, then a character flag — Frieren and Himmel, or Fern and Stark. Each tent gets three commemorative postcards out of it.

There’s also a strike-out game built around the “Iciest Rock” Fern trained her magic on: three throws with spell-patterned balls, and hitting the target earns you a grimoire clear file and, per the organisers, credentials as someone who hit the rock.

The rooms

The tents are air-conditioned and bedded like hotel rooms — the “glamping” part is not a euphemism. Bedding carries the meteor-shower pattern from the series, cushions are printed with the Zoltraak spell circle, and each tent flies a character flag outside. The detail that lands best: every room has a spellbook-styled guest logbook that stays with the tent, so you read what previous guests wrote and leave something for whoever comes next.

Mornings are a vegetable harvest in the farm’s gardens and a buffet breakfast, and the on-site onsen かりんの湯 has a sauna plus a manga corner stocked with the complete Frieren run.

Merch, and what only guests can buy

The limited goods lineup went on sale in August. Trading items come in six-character sets: can badges at ¥495 each or ¥2,970 a box, acrylic stands at ¥770 / ¥4,620, acrylic keychains at ¥880 / ¥5,280. Singles include a clear file at ¥440, die-cut stickers at ¥440, a hologram sticker at ¥660, a tenugui at ¥880, a four-flag sticker set at ¥1,100, and character hair ties at ¥550.

Five items are advance-sale exclusives for overnight guests: the tote bag (¥2,750), the wide-bottom pouch (¥2,640), the key visual T-shirt (¥5,500, S–XL), and the one everyone photographs — the Frieren towel cap at ¥3,300, which gives you her hair and her flat expression on your head.

Getting there from Singapore

This is the part that makes the collab unusually practical for us. THE FARM is a Narita-adjacent property, not a Tokyo one — and Singapore’s flights to Narita put you within reach of it before you’ve even gone into the city.

• From Narita Airport: roughly 25 minutes by car. There’s also a direct local bus from Terminal 2, stop 4, three times a day, taking about 40 minutes at ¥700 for adults and ¥350 for primary-school children — cash only, no reservation.
• From Tokyo Station: about 90 minutes by car, or the Keisei express bus to Kurimoto (¥2,000 adult / ¥1,000 child) and then THE FARM’s free shuttle, which needs no booking.
• Address: 〒287-0103 千葉県香取市西田部1309-29. Parking is free.

Two logistics warnings worth taking seriously. There is no convenience store or supermarket nearby, so buy what you need before you arrive. And the tents don’t have their own toilets — the facilities are shared.

Booking, prices and the clock

The plan is THE FARM BBQ Plan, one night with two meals, booked through THE FARM’s reservation system. Check-in runs 14:00–19:00 and check-out is by 11:00. A solo-traveller version was added on 8 June for people who’d rather do the campfire-and-stars thing at their own pace, which is a rare thing to see on a glamping plan.

THE FARM lists its glamping rooms from ¥9,900 per person per night for the entry-level Riverside tent (sleeps four), through the Family Suite (sleeps five, from ¥14,740), up to Gran Terrace at ¥24,310. The exact collab rate moves with the date and room grade, so check the booking page for your dates rather than budgeting off the headline figure. Bookings opened on 30 March and the collab runs to 16 October — with under two months left and only 32 tents a night, the good dates are the first to go.

One more thing if any Singapore students are reading: THE FARM is running a September weekday campaign that refunds ¥4,000 — the cost of the Tokyo–Kurimoto return express bus — to guests aged 18 and over who show a student ID and their outbound bus receipt at check-in.

Full details and booking are on the official collab site (Japanese) and THE FARM’s announcement page (Japanese).

If you’re following the franchise more broadly, we’ve covered the MapleStory × Frieren crossover landing on 9 September and the Golden Land arc arriving in Season 3. More anime coverage lives in Manga & Anime, and our events desk has the rest.

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