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2 Ideas on Chiba in Japan?

My message appear two times sooooooryyy for this >< !!!

I just wanted to ad for the weather : in winter it is not very cold : around 5° in average. The best season is spring (with cherry flowers everywhere) and autumn : mild temperature with beautiful nature.

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Posted by guillaume at 2004-10-05 22:35:25. More

1 Ideas on Chiba in Japan?

Hi I'm a french and japanese "half" who are just arrive in Shanghai,

The weather of Tokyo and Chiba is very good. It is not well-known but tokyo is one of the city around the world where there are the most days with sunshine. Even during winter almost everyday is sunny. The unique exception is during the rain season from the midle of june to the midle of july (sometimes longer).

Concerning Chiba I will add several comments:

- Chiba is considered as a surburb of tokyo : most of the time when you talk about chiba it means the huge surburb of tokyo which is located in chiba prefecture and which is closed to tokyo. It is in this area where "Disneyland" is located. As yokohama Chiba is "scotched" to tokyo (there are no countryside between the two cities, buildings and houses everywhere), that's why chiba city is not considered as a town but as an extension of tokyo.

- If your friend wanted to work in tokyo he have to live in the surburb area of chiba and not in the rural part of chiba (too far from tokyo)

- Chiba surburb is convinient because it is quite close to tokyo and the appartmens is cheaper.

- but Chiba has some inconvenient : chiba surburb have a bad reputation for criminality (but japan is on of the safer country in the world so compare to france for example chiba is very secured), and it is also quite borring compare to tokyo : it is mainly a residential area, there are almost no history, the districts are not "charming" as tokyo's districts.
Posted by guillaume at 2004-10-05 22:31:25. More