12426 ／ ながらまち
Chiba Prefecture 長生郡Many of these cave tombs have a raised burial floor.
Nagara Yokoana, raised floors01 ／ Temple bell
The Ganzo-ji bell is 91 cm tall and 62.1 cm across the mouth. It has no nipples, and its inscription records that the temple was once called Taizo-ji and names the maker. The prefecture's board of education calls it the oldest dated temple bell in Chiba Prefecture.
02 ／ Residence
Suishu-tei is a Japanese-style house built over about a year and a half as a businessman's villa. A two-storey main block facing south with single-storey wings, it was designed on the Kyoma scale in fine Sukiya style with cypress and other good timber. It was registered as a national tangible cultural property on 17 February 2004.
03 ／ Three-way junction
The Osakabe junction by Yaegaki Osakabe Shrine was a crossroads with roads to Kasamori, Ichihara and Mobara, the Osakabe Bayashi Preservation Society writes. The shrine's wooden standing statue, said to be Gozu Tenno, is 215 cm tall, carved from one block, and prefecturally designated on 8 March 1977.
Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.
Wide (about 6 km across)
Close (about 1.5 km across)
2016 (shot FY2016)Shot 1974–78
Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（年度別空中写真（2016年度）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））
Living here
There is no railway station in town. A Kominato Railway bus leaving the south exit of Mobara Station at 7:20 on weekdays, bound for Nagara-nakashimo, arrives at 7:38, taking 18 minutes. This is from the Kominato timetable revised on 1 October 2026.
−8.4% since 2015
8,846 → 6,721
28.82km² of it habitable
2024
2.7 people per household
2020
7.4 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。町公式「路線バス（乗合バス）利用のお願い」（2017-12-07 更新）は、町唯一の公共交通機関として小湊鐵道の路線バス（JR茂原駅～ロングウッドステーション、JR茂原駅～労災病院）を挙げるだけで分数は無い。分数は小湊鐵道バス公式の時刻・運賃検索（kominato-bus.com/route の search_diagram.php。対象日 2026-10-01 改正の時刻表）で数えた (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.
Shape
North to south
10.6km
If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.
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