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12403 ／くじゆうくりまち

Chiba Prefecture 山武郡

Kujukuri Town

A net owner's second son was born here.

Ino Tadataka birthplace, Koseki

Photo by アリオト (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Lion dance

A net owner split off a shrine; an Edo wholesalergave it a portable shrine; a lion dance is said to have begun as its escort.

According to the prefecture, in 1819 a net owner enshrined a branch of Yasaka Shrine from Matsunosato, Togane. The Edo fish-market wholesaler he traded with donated a portable shrine, and local eldest sons were taught a lion dance to lead it, which is said to be the start. A prefectural intangible folk cultural property.

1819
Two-person lion dance
Prefectural designation 30 Jan 1970

02 ／ Sweet potato trial

Konyo's sweet potato trials ran at three sites.A field in Fudodo Village was one.

According to the prefecture, trials directed by Aoki Konyo were held at Koishikawa in Edo, Mageka Village in Shimosa and Fudodo Village in Kazusa. Fudodo was shogunal land, and farmers guided through officials tried it, but results seem to have fallen short of Mageka's. A stone monument stands there now.

Trials at three sites
Fudodo was shogunal land
Prefectural historic site

03 ／ Taryo-bushi

A fishing song, forgotten for a time, was restored fromthe memory of Koyasu Sadakichi of Katagai Yagata.

According to the prefecture, the song describes sardine drag-net fishing and was forgotten for a time as catches failed after the Meiji era. Around 1960, it was restored from a tune that Koyasu Sadakichi of Katagai Yagata remembered, and a preservation society passes it on. A prefectural intangible folk cultural property.

Restored around 1960
Koyasu Sadakichi, Katagai Yagata
Prefectural designation 4 May 1963

Kujukuri Town from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot October 2023)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

57 minutes by express bus from Chiba Station.

about 10,000 people
Rural district town

There is no railway station in town. The town points visitors to the Kujukuri Liner of Kujukuri Tetsudo from JR Chiba Station toward Katagai Station. In the operator's timetable (revised 22 January 2024), the weekday bus leaving at 8:00 reaches Kujukuri Town Office in town at 8:57.

People living here: 14,639people
Area: 24.44km²
Households: 6,181households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 1 hospital ／ 6 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —2 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

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Where you can go from here.

Kujukuri Town in Japan35.535°N 140.440°E

to ChibaLocal bus57min

Travel times follow 町に鉄道の駅は無い（九十九里鉄道は廃線）。九十九里鐵道の急行『九十九里ライナー』（千葉駅〜東金駅〜片貝駅）の公式時刻表。事業者サイトは2026-10-22にこの環境から直接つながらず（接続拒否）、Wayback（2024年1月22日改正の掲載）で読んだ (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Kujukuri Town

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.Lakes: National Land Numerical Information (Lake Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari. Prepared with the approval of the Director-General of the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, using its Digital Map 25000 (Spatial Data Framework) and Digital Map 25000 (Place Names and Public Facilities). (承認番号平27情使、第585号)

North to south

8.0km

Togane City, Sanmu City, Oamishirasato City

Kujukuri Town isthis kind of town.

01The prefecture records that Ino Tadataka was born as the second son of the Koseki family, village head and sardine net owner of Koseki Village, and lived there until age 10
02The Nishinoshita lion dance is said to have begun when a lion dance was taught to lead a portable shrine donated by an Edo fish-market wholesaler
03The Kujukuri Taryo-bushi was forgotten for a time and restored around 1960 from a song remembered in Katagai Yagata

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Kujukuri Town official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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