Chiba

Chiba is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about 40 kilometres southeast of the middle of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a central authority-targeted city in 1992. In February 2016, its populace changed into 972,861, with a population density of 3,580 humans in keeping with square kilometer. The town has an area of 271.76 square kilometres. Chiba City is one of the Kanto vicinity's number one seaports, and is home to Chiba Port, which handles one of the highest volumes of cargo in the state.

Much of the metropolis is residential, although there are many factories and warehouses along the coast. There are numerous main urban centers in the city, which include Makuhari, a high waterfront enterprise district in which Makuhari Messe is placed, and Central Chiba, wherein the prefectural authorities workplace and the town hall are positioned.

Chiba is famous for the Chiba Urban Monorail, the longest suspended monorail inside the global. Some popular locations in the city encompass: Kasori Shell Midden, the most important shellmound inside the international at 134,000 m2, Inage Beach, the first artificial seaside within the state which bureaucracy part of the longest artificial beach in Japan, and the Chiba City Zoological Park, popular on account of the standing purple panda Futa.