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12207 ／まつどし

Matsudo City

Garden borrows Fuji and the Edo River.

Tojotei, Akitake's private home

Photo by Wiiii (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Historic site

A pear tree found at a relative's house,replanted, bore ripe fruit in ten years.

Matsudo Kakunosuke, a 13-year-old born in the former Ohashi village (now Ohashi, Matsudo), replanted a small pear tree found at a relative's house at his own home. Ten years later, in 1898, he succeeded in growing ripe fruit. This became the Nijisseiki pear. Saplings were sent to Tottori Prefecture in 1904, and the original tree died in 1947.

City-designated historic site (1965)
Ripe fruit in 1898
Original tree died in 1947

02 ／ Modern civil engineering

A brick sluice with four archesregulates the Sakagawa River's flow.

Yanagihara Suiko was built in 1904 (Meiji 37) to regulate the flow of the Sakagawa River. A brick sluice with four arches, made before reinforced concrete became common, it has a distinctive look, with stones of differing sizes in the arches. The city calls it a valuable civil-engineering structure that conveys Meiji-era brick-laying methods.

City-designated tangible cultural property (1995)
Built 1904
Four brick arches

03 ／ Temple bell

A bell cast by a Nagara foundermoved from a Sakura temple to Hondoji.

This temple bell bears an inscription dated 1278 (Kenji 4). The inscription shows that its maker was Oonakatomi no Kanemori, a founder from Osakabe District in Kazusa Province (now Nagara Town), and that the bell, first at Daifukuji in Muttsuzaki, Indo Estate (Sakura City), was brought to Hondoji in 1482 (Bunmei 14).

National Important Cultural Property (1977)
Inscription dated 1278
Brought to Hondoji in 1482

Matsudo City 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 June–October 2019)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

16 minutes to Ueno, 22 to Tokyo.

about 500,000 people
30 min to a city centre

On the Joban Line's special rapid, it is 16 minutes to Ueno Station, and 22 minutes to Tokyo Station on the Ueno-Tokyo Line. This is the fastest of the trains that run every day; the special rapid runs twice, in the afternoon.

People living here: 498,232people
Area: 61.38km²
Households: 231,195households
Rent (average for rentals): 61,653yen
Healthcare: 19 hospitals ／ 277 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —63 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.

Matsudo City in Japan35.788°N 139.903°E

to UenoJR Joban Line16min
to TokyoJR Ueno-Tokyo Line and Joban Line22min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp・2610版）の常磐線下り（品川－上野－水戸－仙台）の平日表・土曜休日表を列車ごとに数えた値。毎日運転（運転日『全日』）の最速。市公式『松戸市役所のご案内』の『JR上野駅から最短約17分／JR東京駅から最短約23分（上野東京ライン）／JR品川駅から最短約33分』とも一致 (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 7 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Matsudo City

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

11.4km

Chiba Prefecture: Ichikawa City, Kashiwa City, Kamagaya City, Nagareyama City
Saitama Prefecture: Misato City
Tokyo: Katsushika Ward, Edogawa Ward

Matsudo City isthis kind of town.

01The former Tokugawa Matsudo Tojotei was built in 1884 as a private home by Tokugawa Akitake, 11th head of the Mito Tokugawa family, and its garden borrows Mt. Fuji in the distance and the Edo River nearby
02The Nijisseiki pear, ripened in 1898 by a 13-year-old, was born in Matsudo's former Ohashi village
03A four-arch brick sluice on the Sakagawa River and Hondoji's bell, cast by a Nagara founder, tell of the town's Meiji era and Kamakura period

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Matsudo City official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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