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Narashino City

Two channels let the tide in and out.

Yatsu-higata Tidal Flat

Photo by くろふね (CC BY 4.0)

01 ／ Nanushi house

A village headman's house, with an entrance forhigh-ranking guests and a room for their attendants.

The former Tokita House is the home of a village headman of Mimomi Village, built from 1727 to 1728 along the Togane (Onari) road. Its main house bends in an L shape (a magariya), and the city says it has a genkan for visitors, a waiting room for attendants and a guest toilet. The present building was relocated and restored in 2000 to nearly its original appearance.

Prefecturally designated tangible cultural property (2005)
Built 1727-1728
Thatched, single-storey; 315.7 m² of floor

02 ／ Ink-inscribed pottery

A vessel is inscribed "Nakamura-dera," but no templeof that name is known in the area.

The Yatsu shell mound lies in the northwest of the city, near the Kanade-no-Mori district, and its core was a large Nara and Heian settlement that yielded about 1,300 pieces of ink-inscribed pottery. Six city-designated pieces include "Nakamura-dera" and "Kuni-kuriya"; the city writes that no temple of that name is confirmed in the surrounding area.

Six pieces, city-designated (archaeological material)
About 1,300 pieces excavated
Settlement from the late 7th century to the early 10th

03 ／ Place name

One character each from Yatsu, Kukuda andSaginuma gave Tsudanuma its name.

Tsudanuma took one character each from the old villages of Yatsu, Kukuda and Saginuma, and was adopted as a village name when villages were established in 1889. The city writes that when the city was founded in 1954, it came to mean the former Kukuda district.

One character from each of three old villages
Village name in 1889
City founded in 1954

Narashino 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））

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Living here

27 minutes to Tokyo at the fastest, by the JR Sobu Line Rapid.

about 180,000 people
30 min to a city centre

Rapid trains on the JR Sobu Line stop at Tsudanuma Station. The fastest daily train takes 27 minutes from Tokyo, an early-morning service, and daytime trains take 28 to 29 minutes (October 2026 timetable). Keisei-Tsudanuma Station on the Keisei Main Line is 33 minutes at the fastest from Keisei-Ueno. The city says the city hall is a 7-minute walk from Keisei-Tsudanuma Station.

People living here: 176,197people
Area: 20.97km²
Households: 79,423households
Rent (average for rentals): 62,733yen
Healthcare: 6 hospitals ／ 113 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —19 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.

Narashino City in Japan35.681°N 140.027°E

to TokyoJR Sobu Line (Rapid)27min
to Keisei-UenoKeisei Main Line33min

Travel times follow JR東日本の駅の時刻表・津田沼駅（総武線快速千葉方面〈下り〉の平日・土曜休日、2026年10月ダイヤ〈2610版〉。各列車の停車駅一覧で東京の発時刻と津田沼の時刻の差を数えた）／京成電鉄の駅別時刻表（keisei.ekitan.com。日暮里駅成田空港・ちはら台・成田スカイアクセス線・北総線方面〈2025年12月13日改正〉の平日・土曜の特急・快速特急の各列車ページで、日暮里の発と京成津田沼の着の差を数えた） (checked 2026-10-22). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 3 municipalities.

Territory of Narashino 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

6.2km

Funabashi City, Chiba City, Yachiyo City

Narashino City isthis kind of town.

01Yatsu-higata is a 40-hectare tidal flat about 2 km inland from the Tokyo Bay shoreline, joined to the bay by two channels, east and west, and registered as a Ramsar wetland in June 1993; the city writes that it is a tidal flat left behind when the land was reclaimed
02The former Tokita House is an L-shaped magariya built in 1727-1728 as the home of a village headman of Mimomi Village, and is a prefecturally designated tangible cultural property; six pieces of ink-inscribed pottery from the Yatsu shell mound are city-designated, and no temple named Nakamura-dera is confirmed nearby
03The name Tsudanuma was formed from one character each of the old villages of Yatsu, Kukuda and Saginuma, when villages were established in 1889

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