Matsudo
Matsudo is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan.
Matsudo is a city in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 October 2024, the city had an estimated population of 499,533 in 242,918 households and a population density of 8,138 persons per km2. The total area of the city is 61.38 square kilometres (23.70 sq mi).
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Hondoji Temple
- 02Tozenji Temple
359, Kogane (near Kitakogane Station on the Joban Line; it takes about 10 min to walk from the station), etsuro@tozenji.or.jp.
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Things to do
Kento Festival (献灯まつり) (along the Sakagawa River). A votive lantern (kento) festival. This traditional festival has been held on Aug. 9 and 10, continuing the tradition of "Toumorokoshi Ichi" (maize market), since Edo period.
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Getting to Matsudo
- Airports
- Tokyo Haneda (HND), 28 km · Narita (NRT), 44 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 64 km
- Narita → Matsudo37 km · quickest by road, 1h 22m · ¥640–870
- Omitama → Matsudo65 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · ¥860–1,170
- Makinohara / Shimada → Matsudo189 km · quickest by road, 3h 44m · ¥2,460–3,360
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Matsudo
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Matsudo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextThe street markets and museums of Ueno are directly west of Asakusa, while Sumida of Skytree and sumo fame is immediately across the river.
- Go nextAsakusa is a large Tokyo hub of the private Tobu railway, and you can be transported to a different world in two hours: Ashikaga Kinugawa — a hot-spring resort fallen on hard times Nikko — with its national parks and opulent shrines Tatebayashi Tochigi — A worthwhile day trip from Tokyo for its preserved architecture and old shops.
From Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Asakusa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Matsudo
Matsudo is 6 km from Ichikawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.