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What are the specialties of Chiba Prefecture, Japan?

Peanuts, soy sauce, sardines, lobsters, goldeneye snappers, kōsui pears, loquats, watermelons, and dairy products.

Chiba is an important industrial port city in southeastern Honshu, Japan, and the capital of Chiba Prefecture[1]. It is located on the northeast shore of Tokyo Bay. With an area of 269.8 square kilometers and a population of 975,000 (2017), it surpassed Kitakyushu for the first time in 2014 as the 13th most populous city in Japan. Located on the plain along Tokyo Bay, the Tochigawa River and its tributary, the Kashigawa River, flow through the city.

Summers are humid and hot, and winters are dry with little snow. The city was established in 1921 as a city after becoming the seat of the prefectural government in 1873 and a commercial port of transit between Edo and the Tokyo Bay area from the 12th to the mid-19th century.

The Chiba and Higashi-Katsushika areas, which are close to Tokyo, a major consumer area, have long cultivated vegetables such as komatsuna and spinach, taking advantage of the natural and social advantages of the area.

The Kaisa, Katori, and Inhata regions have cultivated large quantities of vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, and watermelons, as well as rice and animal husbandry.