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CHIBA Rice is also grown, and seaweed is harvested in large
quantities from Tokyo Bay.
C
h A prefecture of Japan located in the Kanto region and
a the Greater Tokyo Area. Its capital is Chiba City. Customs and Heritage:
p
t
e Total Area: 5,156.15 km2 (1,990.80 sq mi) Kofun: burial mounds found across the prefecture,
r with the largest group being in Futtsu along Tokyo
Total Population: 1,200,817
Bay.
Major Cities: -There are coastal fortifications built along Tokyo

Abiko Funabashi Bay to protect the capital of the Japanese Empire
from attack.
Asahi Futtsu
Cuisine:
Chiba (capital) Ichihara
-Fish, seafood, and shellfish along the coastal
Chuo-ku Ichikawa
areas.
Hanamigawa-ku Inzai
-Futomaki or Futomakizushi- a large version of the
Inage-ku Isumi sushi roll.
Midori-ku Kamagaya -Miso made from peanuts instead of soy beans is

Mihama-ku Kamogawa also produced in Chiba.

Wakaba-ku Kashiwa -Takenoko- whole bamboo shoot, are harvested in
the central part of the Boso Peninsula.
Katori Oamishirasato Yachiyo
-Takenoko Sashimi- raw whole bamboo shoots.
Katsuura Sakura Yotsukaido
-Vegetables in the northern area of the prefecture.
Kimitsu Sanmu

Kisarazu Shiroi

Matsudo Sodegaura

Minamiboso Sosa
KANAGAWA
Mobara Tateyama
A prefecture located in the southern Kanto region of
Nagareyama Tomisato
Japan and part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The capi-
Narashino Togane tal is Yokohama. Kanagawa is part of the Greater
Narita Urayasu Tokyo Area.

Noda Yachimata Total Area: 2,415.84 km2 (932.76 sq mi)

Economy: Total Population: 824,639
Chiba Prefecture is home to one of Japan's largest Major Cities:
brewing industries, specifically the production of soy Atsugi Minamiashigara
sauce, sake, and mirin sweet cooking sake. Peanuts
are considered a specialty product of Chiba; 78 per- Ayase Miura
cent of the country's peanuts are produced in the pre- Chigasaki Odawara
fecture. Chiba produces vegetables, including car-
rots, cabbage, daikon radish, negi, loquat, nashi, the Ebina
Japanese cultivar of the pear, tomatoes, spinach, and Sagamihara
corn (the nation's second largest producer of it). Fujisawa

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