12422 ／ むつざわまち
Chiba Prefecture 長生郡A Boso hill temple in sudajii woods.
Myorakuji Forest01 ／ Temple gate
The Myosho-ji gate is a four-pillar gate with side walls, and traces of red paint remain on its pillars and bracket sets. An inscription found during restoration gives August 1842 and a master carpenter from a village in today's Isumi City, the town says. It was designated by the town on 16 September 2021.
02 ／ Temple gate
The history of Gugyoji, known as Chosei Fudoson, records that in 1920 an old house whose owner was first mayor of one of Mutsuzawa's predecessor villages donated its gate to the temple. The temple dates its founding to 971, and its main Fudo Myoo statue is designated by the town.
03 ／ Folktale
The town's folktales tell of a weir at the edge of a village. On a dark winter night, a traveler who had borrowed a lantern hurried along the weir path and heard a young couple murmuring tenderly. After that, the villagers called it the Meoto Weir (the "couple weir"), the story says.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
Now (shot July–August 2024)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））
Living here
There is no railway station in town. Take a Kominato Railway bus from the south exit of Mobara Station to Mutsuzawa Town Office. In the timetable revised on 1 October 2025, the 6:40 and 8:10 weekday buses take 20 and 19 minutes, and every other bus, including all weekend and holiday buses, takes 23.
−6.4% since 2015
8,250 → 6,760
21.74km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
4.4 per 10,000 people
2023
These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.
ACCESS
Travel times follow 町に鉄道の駅は無い（Wikidata に駅の項目も無い）。小湊鐵道バス『茂原駅南口～道の駅つどいの郷むつざわ線』の町公式の時刻表（睦沢町公式『路線バス（小湊鉄道株式会社）』。2025年10月1日ダイヤ改正。下り〈平日〉と上り・下り〈土日祝〉の画像PDF） (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
10.5km
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